Vita Nuova
Part love story, part instruction manual, part spiritual journey, Dantes little book, the Vita Nuova, has had a profound and far-reaching influence on global culture and is considered by many to be the perfect expression of the medieval ideal of courtly love, as well as an essential precursor to Dantes sublime poetic apotheosis, the Divine Comedy.
Now Joseph Luzzi, celebrated author of books about Italian literature and culture and a lifelong lover and teacher of Dantes poetry, gives us a version of the Vita Nuova that is fresh, contemporary, and approachableas vital and vivid as Dantes original Tuscan dialectrendered in a voice that will entice a new generation of readers to swoon over one of the most heartbreaking stories of unfulfilled love in all of world literature.
See moreWill deliver when available. Publication date 10 Jan 2025