01797nam 22004333 450 991013608630332120230808200137.01-68137-052-2(CKB)3710000000915211(MiAaPQ)EBC6107737(Au-PeEL)EBL6107737(OCoLC)962009093(BIP)54492622(BIP)54492748(EXLCZ)99371000000091521120210901d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLa Vita NuovaNew York :New York Review Books,2016.©2016.1 online resource (81 pages)1-68137-051-4 The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul's crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams and songs and prayers, The New Life is a work of crystalline beauty and fascinating complexity that has long taken its place as one of the supreme revelations in the literature of love.   The New Life is published here in the beautiful translation by the English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, an inspired poetic re-creation comparable to Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and a classic in its own right.851/.1851.1Alighieri Dante38904Rossetti Dante Gabriel132139Palmer Michael542594MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910136086303321La Vita Nuova3408072UNINA