Vita nuova / Dante Alighieri ; translated with an introduction by Mark Musa.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Musa, Mark.

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press)

Oxford world's classics

Standardized Title:

Vita nuova. English

Language:

English

Italian

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxvii, 94 pages ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.

Summary:

Vita Nuova (1292-94) is regarded as Dante's most profound creation. The thirty-one poems in this, the first of his major writings, are linked by a lyrical prose narrative celebrating and debating the subject of love. Composed upon Dante's meeting with Beatrice and the "Lord of Love," it is a love story set to the task of confirming the "new life" this meeting inspired. With a critical introduction and explanatory notes, this is a new translation of a supreme work which has been read variously as biography, religious allegory, and a meditation on poetry itself.

Notes:

Translation of: Vita nuova.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [xxiv]-xxv).

ISBN:

0192839357

OCLC:

42284742