The New Life Of Dante Alighieri

Author : Martin Eisner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192640932

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Dante's New Life of the Book by Martin Eisner Pdf

Dante's Vita nuova has taken on a wide variety of different forms since its first publication in 1294. How could one work have generated such different physical forms? Through examining the work's transformations in manuscripts, printed books, translations, and adaptations, Eisner reconceives of the relationship between the work and its reception. Dante's New Life of the Book investigates how these different material manifestations participate in the work, drawing attention to its distinctive elements. Dante framed his book as an attempt to understand his own experiences through the experimental form of the book, and later scribes, editors, and translators use different material forms to embody their interpretations of Dante's collection of thirty-one poems surrounded by prose narrative and commentary. Traveling from Boccaccio's Florence to contemporary Hollywood with stops in Emerson's Cambridge, Rossetti's London, Nerval's Paris, Mandelstam's Russia, De Campos's Brazil, and Pamuk's Istanbul, this study builds on extensive archival research to show how Dante's strange poetic forms, including incomplete canzoni and sonnets with two beginnings, continue to challenge readers. Each chapter focuses on how one of these distinctive features has been treated over time, offering new perspectives on topics such as Dante's love of Beatrice, his relationship with Guido Cavalcanti, and his attraction to another woman. Numerous illustrations show the entanglement of the work's poetic form and its material survival. Eisner provides a fresh reading of Dante's innovations, demonstrating the value of this philological analysis of the work's survival in the world.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Devotional literature, Italian
ISBN : HARVARD:32044010454353

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The New Life by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044100911197

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The New Life of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Author : Stephen Bemrose
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015050514978

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A New Life of Dante by Stephen Bemrose Pdf

This biography of Italy's foremost writer and thinker weaves into a single thread the whole of Dante's life and works. As well as his masterpiece the Divina Commedia, his other works are also given considerable attention.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1973-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253201624

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Dante's Vita Nuova, New Edition by Dante Alighieri Pdf

"A fresh, new version of a 1962 translation that has had enormous popularity in comparative literature classes. The Vita Nuova (the New Life) is a small book which relates in prose and often very beautiful verse the story of the youthful Dante's love for Beatrice. The esay which follows the translation provides new insights into this puzzling thirteenth-century work. Musa regards Dante's intention in this so-called "Book of Memory" as a cruel and comic commentary on the youthful lover. He argues that Dante, using the tradition of love poetry current in his time, points up the foolishness and shallowness of his protagonist, a self-centered and self-pitying youth who only occasionally in the progress of his suffering catches even a glimpse of the true nature of Love or his beloved. "The sensitive man who would realize a man's destiny must ruthlessly cut out of his heart the canker at its center [i.e. self-pity], the canker that the heart instinctively tends to cultivate." According to Musa, this is one of Dante's central ideas. Dante scholars, libraries, and students of the Italian classics will welcome this distinguished translation and its provocative commentary"--Back cover.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781776594832

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La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Fall in love with love in this gorgeous collection of poems from Italian master Dante Alighieri, author of The Divine Comedy. Although collections of lyric poems singing the praises of love are as old as the written word, La Vita Nuova is remarkably innovative. Combining works in verse and prose in a linked series of pieces exploring the complexities of courtly love, this enchanting anthology is a must-read for poetry fans.

Author : Dante Alighieri,William Michael Rossetti
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-27
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 138778465X

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La Vita Nuova (Vita Nova - The New Life) by Dante Alighieri,William Michael Rossetti Pdf

La Vita Nuova - in English The New Life - is a poem by Dante Alighieri which expresses the virtues of Medieval courtship and love. First published in 1295 during the dawn of the Italian Renaissance period, this work discusses the praiseworthy aspects of courtship which first appeared during the Medieval era. Dante was a great admirer of this practice, feeling that the tradition elevated both love and courteous behaviour in a manner befitting an experience of such emotive depth. Dante first authored this book during his own association with Beatrice Portinari, a paramour who was to symbolise human love for the artist in both life and death. La Vita Nuova is distinct from other, later works by Dante in that it was authored in his native Italian, rather than the Latin he employed in The Divine Comedy and other works.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781513284675

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The New Life by Dante Alighieri Pdf

The New Life (1294) is a work of verse and prose by Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Composed in the prosimetrum style, The New Life explores the popular medieval theme of courtly love. Made up of alternating commentaries, sonnets, and canzoni, the work is an essential expression of Dante’s poetic gift, and a foundational work for the dolce stil novo literary movement to which Dante was a central figure. Written in the Tuscan vernacular, the poem was influential in establishing a standardized Italian language. Compiled and published following the death of Beatrice Portinari, whom Dante loved from the age of nine when he saw her on the streets of Florence, The New Life translates his personal grief into a moving and universally recognizable work on the nature of love. Dante, who believed that romantic love could lead to a development of the soul, subsequently bringing one to the love of God—a concept central to The Divine Comedy—divided his work into prose commentaries and poems in verse, a popular style known as prosimetrum. Despite this debt to tradition, however, Dante wrote The New Life in the Tuscan vernacular as opposed to Latin, making his work more accessible to readers. Autobiographical in nature, The New Life portrays Dante coming to terms with his grief, praising the deceased Beatrice, and turning friends and acquaintances into figures populating his poems. From sorrow to salvation, Dante finds the light of God through the darkness of death, testifying to the transformative power of love while proving beyond any doubt the power of a transformative poetry. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Dante Alighieri’s The New Life is a classic of Italian literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:12243957

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The New Life of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1693610728

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The New Life (la Vita Nuova) by Dante Alighieri Pdf

La Vita Nuova or Vita Nova is a text by Dante Alighieri published in 1294. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1912
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89004385225

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The New Life of Dante Alighieri by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-06
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780674416765

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La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri Pdf

La Vita Nuova (1292Ð94) has many aspects. DanteÕs libello, or Òlittle book,Ó is most obviously a book about love. In a sequence of thirty-one poems, the author recounts his love of Beatrice from his first sight of her (when he was nine and she eight), through unrequited love and chance encounters, to his profound grief sixteen years later at her sudden and unexpected death. Linked with DanteÕs verse are commentaries on the individual poemsÑtheir form and meaningÑas well as the events and feelings from which they originate. Through these commentaries the poet comes to see romantic love as the first step in a spiritual journey that leads to salvation and the capacity for divine love. He aims to reside with Beatrice among the stars. David Slavitt gives us a readable and appealing translation of one of the early, defining masterpieces of European literature, animating its verse and prose with a fluid, lively, and engaging idiom and rhythm. His translation makes this first major book of DanteÕs stand out as a powerful work of art in its own regard, independent of its ÒjuniorÓ status to La Commedia. In an Introduction, Seth Lerer considers Dante as a poet of civic life. ÒBeatrice,Ó he reminds us, Òlives as much on city streets and open congregations as she does in bedroom fantasies and dreams.Ó

Author : Dante Gabriel Rossetti,Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1016093055

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The New Life (La Vita Nuova) of Dante Alighieri by Dante Gabriel Rossetti,Dante Alighieri Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CUB:U183043420760

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Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri Pdf

Author : Paget Jackson Toynbee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Authors, Italian
ISBN : HARVARD:32044015588577

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Dante Alighieri by Paget Jackson Toynbee Pdf