The Dante Alighieri 1265-1321 creator Rossetti, Dante Gabriel 1828-1882 text utu 2012 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The New Life (La Vita Nuova)" by Dante Alighieri is a prosimetrum published in 1294. Combining both prose and verse, this "little book" traces Dante's love for Beatrice from their first meeting at age nine through her death and beyond. Through commentaries on twenty-five sonnets and several other poems, Dante transforms courtly love into something sacred, marking a turning point in European poetry by writing in Italian rather than Latin and drawing on personal experience. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Vita_Nuova Release date is 2012-10-17 E-text prepared by Brian Foley, Barbara Magni, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://archive.org/details/americana) Original publication data not identified Italian literature -- Translations into English PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41085 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/41085 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133935.0 41085