| The New Life Contributor(s): Alighieri, Dante (Author), Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (Introduction by), Palmer, Michael (Preface by) |
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ISBN: 1681370514 ISBN-13: 9781681370514 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $12.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: November 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica - Poetry | Medieval - Poetry | European - General |
| Series: Nyrb Poets |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 4.5" W x 6.9" (0.20 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Holiday - Valentine's Day - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul's crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams and songs and prayers, The New Life is a work of crystalline beauty and fascinating complexity that has long taken its place as one of the supreme revelations in the literature of love. The New Life is published here in the beautiful translation by the English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, an inspired poetic re-creation comparable to Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and a classic in its own right. |