Today it is not only enjoyed for its imaginative and sensitive love story, but also for its exploration of poetry and religious experience, and the overarching connection between them all Book Details The piece transformed European vernacular poetry, and established the Tuscan dialect in which it is written as the Italian standard. It explores the emotions of courtly love, its powerful ability to inspire, and Dante's affirmations of his own religious convictions. (Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.) Read in English by Mary J One of Dantes earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and tells the story of his youthful love for Beatrice. "La Vita Nuova" contains works written over a period of ten years, from before 1283 to roughly 1293, and is the semi-autobiographical account of Dante's lifelong love for a woman he called Beatrice. LibriVox recording of The New Life (La vita nuova) by Dante Alighieri.
Since the Middle Ages, Dante has been cherished as the "Supreme Poet," or simply il Poeta, of Italy, and is most widely recognized for his allegorical "Divina Commedia". "La Vita Nuova" is the first of two collections of verse and prose written by the Italian poet, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321).
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