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020			_a9781847496959
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041	1		_hita
050			_aPQ4315.58 _b.S63 2010
100			_aDante Alighieri _d1265-1321 _eauthor _923151
245	1	0	_aVita nuova _c/ Dante Alighieri ; translated by Anthony Mortimer.
250			_aNew edition.
260			_aLondon : _bAlma Classics, _c[2016].
300			_a231 pages : _billustrations (black and white) ; _c20 cm.
500			_aPrevious edition: 2013.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aThe 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.
546			_aText in English and Italian.
600	0	0	_aDante Alighieri, _d1265-1321 _vTranslations into English.
650		0	_aItalian poetry _xTranslations into English _924271
650		0	_aEnglish poetry _xTranslations from Italian _924272
655		0	_aPoetry _923162
700		0	_aMortimer, Anthony Robert _etranslator _924269
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