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    Vita Nuova
    Vita Nuova
    Vita Nuova
    Audiobook2 hours

    Vita Nuova

    Written by Dante Alighieri and Virginia Jewiss

    Narrated by Fajer Al-Kaisi and Cassandra Campbell

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    A sparkling translation that gives new life in English to Dante’s Vita Nuova, his transcendent love poems and influential statement on the art and power of poetry, and the most widely read of his works after the Inferno
     
    A Penguin Classic

    Dante was only nine years old when he first met young Beatrice in Florence. Loving her for the rest of his life with a devotion undiminished by even her untimely death, he would dedicate himself to transfiguring her, through poetry, into something far more than a muse—she would become the very proof of love as transcendent spiritual power, and the adoration of her a radiant path into a “new life.”
     
    Censored by the Church, written in the Tuscan vernacular rather than Latin, exploding the courtly love tradition of the medieval troubadours, and employing an unprecedented hybrid form to link the thirty-one poems with prose commentary, Vita Nuova, first published in 1294, represents both an innovation in the literature of love and the work of Dante’s that brings this extraordinary poet into clearest view. This limpid new translation, based on the latest authoritative Italian edition, captures the ineffable quality of a work that has inspired the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Baudelaire, T. S. Eliot, Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Penn Warren, and Louise Glück, and sustains the long afterlife of a masterpiece that is itself a key to the ultimate poetic journey into the afterlife, The Divine Comedy.

    For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Audio
    TranslatorVirginia Jewiss
    Release dateMar 22, 2022
    ISBN9780593554142
    Vita Nuova
    Author

    Dante Alighieri

    Durante degli Alighieri, known as Dante (1265–1321), was a major Italian poet of the Middle Ages. His Divine Comedy is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature

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    • 4/5
      This was a great, first-person look at Dante's young life and his exposure to Beatrice- who permeated and influenced much of his work. The passion, trembling and careful, that he espouses onto the pages here is without measure in nearly all accounts that I have seen. This is seeing Dante's world through his own eyes and it is quite a portrait indeed. Through reading this, I was able to understand him a little better and that's a great thing when we are dealing with someone with such an important literary stature and importance.

      4 stars.
    • 3/5
      Rossetti's translation is kind of strange, but it was a nice backup to reading the Divine Comedy.
    • 3/5
      Your sisters bringing messages of gladness;
      And you, who are the daughter of my sadness,
      Seek out their company, disconsolate.

      Lovely structure and I applaud the Florentine when he isn’t burning sinners. The spirit and sense data are privileged over reason. Our boy is loopy over Beatrice. He drools and convulses in her presence. Composure is found afterwards and sonnets composed. He’s got it bad.

      I won’t spoil the turn. Extreme emotion appears fairly uniform. That is a treatise all its own. As would be a song cycle from Beatrice’s perspective. The entire project reeks of dislocation, not yearning.

      There’s an intriguing aside late in the text regarding the rise of vernacular poetry. It occurred so women could be wooed. Also ubiquitous is the number nine, though I fear if you played it backwards it would say turn me on, dead man, turn me on. If that isn’t a plea for Christ, I don’t know what is. I again offer apologies for my apostasy.
    • 3/5
      I was more fascinated by his dissection of his own poems than the poems themselves.
    • 3/5
      The aspect of Vita Nuova I found most interesting is that it is simultaneously doing several things: it functions as an account of part of Dante's life and career, as well as a compilation of his poetry, an explanation of that poetry, and a love story. Unfortunately none of these facets of the work stood out to me as particularly moving or interesting. It's far too bare-bones an account of Dante's life and career to satiate my curiosity on that front, I didn't find the poetry on display here very beautiful or striking (though I read an English translation by Mark Musa, and translation often strips poetry of much of its force), the insight that Dante shares about his poetry leans toward the technical, and when it comes to being a love story I found this far inferior to the love story aspect of The Divine Comedy.

      A bit disappointing, but gives a better understanding of Dante's thoughts and writing style. Though I found it underwhelming on its own, I may yet be happy I read it when I get around to rereading The Divine Comedy.
    • 3/5
      Mengeling van proza en poëzie: naar analogie met Boëthius.
      Enkele pareltje van liefdespoëzie, maar over het algemeen toch veel gesteun en gekreun gericht op het eigen ik en veel te veel effectjagerij naar mijn smaak.
    • 5/5
      this is a beautiful book. all the beatrice stuff is here.