Vita nuova
Dante Alighieri 1265-1321
Vita nuova / Dante Alighieri ; translated by Anthony Mortimer. - New edition. - London : Alma Classics, [2016]. - 231 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Previous edition: 2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Vita Nuova, with its unusual blend of prose and poetry, is universally recognized as Dante's early masterpiece and provides an indispensable prequel to The Divine Comedy. Set in thirteenth-century Florence, part autobiography and part religious allegory, it traces Dante's quest to find a poetic idiom worthy of Beatrice, whom he had loved since boyhood. Her premature death plunges him into an emotional turmoil that finds release only through his faith in her continuing spiritual influence and through his determination “to write of her what has never been written of any woman”. The Vita Nuova remains a central document in European culture's examination of love and the self. It is a hundred and fifty years since Dante Gabriel Rossetti's groundbreaking version of the Vita Nuova. Now Anthony Mortimer, already acclaimed as translator of Cavalcanti, Petrarch and Michelangelo, produces a verse translation that avoids Rossetti's disturbing archaisms but preserves a lyric immediacy worthy of the original. This is a Vita Nuova for the twenty-first century.
Text in English and Italian.
9781847496959
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 --Translations into English.
Italian poetry--Translations into English
English poetry--Translations from Italian
Poetry
PQ4315.58 / .S63 2010
Vita nuova / Dante Alighieri ; translated by Anthony Mortimer. - New edition. - London : Alma Classics, [2016]. - 231 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.
Previous edition: 2013.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Vita Nuova, with its unusual blend of prose and poetry, is universally recognized as Dante's early masterpiece and provides an indispensable prequel to The Divine Comedy. Set in thirteenth-century Florence, part autobiography and part religious allegory, it traces Dante's quest to find a poetic idiom worthy of Beatrice, whom he had loved since boyhood. Her premature death plunges him into an emotional turmoil that finds release only through his faith in her continuing spiritual influence and through his determination “to write of her what has never been written of any woman”. The Vita Nuova remains a central document in European culture's examination of love and the self. It is a hundred and fifty years since Dante Gabriel Rossetti's groundbreaking version of the Vita Nuova. Now Anthony Mortimer, already acclaimed as translator of Cavalcanti, Petrarch and Michelangelo, produces a verse translation that avoids Rossetti's disturbing archaisms but preserves a lyric immediacy worthy of the original. This is a Vita Nuova for the twenty-first century.
Text in English and Italian.
9781847496959
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 --Translations into English.
Italian poetry--Translations into English
English poetry--Translations from Italian
Poetry
PQ4315.58 / .S63 2010
