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Vita Nuova

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By (author): Dante Alighieri

Translated by: Joseph Luzzi

Part love story, part instruction manual, part spiritual journey, Dante’s “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 Dante’s 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 Dante’s poetry, gives us a version of the Vita Nuova that is fresh, contemporary and approachable—as vital and vivid as Dante’s original Tuscan dialect—rendered 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.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 220g
  • Dimensions: 124 x 193mm
  • Publication Date: 21 Feb 2025
  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Publication City/Country: US
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781324095521

About Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri was born in 1265 in Florence to a family of minor nobility. He entered into Florentine politics in 1295, but he and his party were forced into exile in a hostile political climate in 1301. Taking asylum in Ravenna late in life, Dante completed his Divine Commedia, considered one of the most important works of Western literature, before his death in 1321. Joseph Luzzi is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard College and an award-winning writer, teacher, and scholar of Italian culture. His latest book, Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance was shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize and was selected as a New Yorker Best Book of 2022. He lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.

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