An entirely unique poetic treatise, La Vita Nuova is a curated and symbolically designed collection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own epigrammatic sayings. The poems tell the story of his immortal love for Beatrice, from their first meeting at a May Day party, through his trials and efforts to hide the true object of his devotion, to his impending grief over her death and his transformative vision of her in paradise. These are some of the richest love poems in literature, and the evolution from self-pitying melancholy to the glorification of his beloved's beauty and virtue depicts the beloved's dynamic. This readable new translation, based on the latest authentic Italian edition and with the Italian language on opposite pages, captures the inexpressible quality of a work that has inspired Charles Baudelaire, T. S. Eliot, Jorge Luis Borges, and Louise Glück.
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