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ISBN-10: 1681370514
ISBN-13: 9781681370514
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publish Date: 11/01/2016
Dimensions: 6.90" L, 4.50" W, 0.30" H

The New Life

Introduction by: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Preface by: Michael Palmer
Translator: Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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Overview

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.

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"Rossetti made a remarkable translation of the Vita Nuova, in some places improving (or at least enriching) the original. He was indubitably the man 'sent, ' or 'chosen, ' for that particular job." –Ezra Pound

"[Rossetti's translation is] the fruit of countless hours of brooding over Italian painting, Italian images, Italian sounds and thoughts." –John Wain

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ISBN-10: 1681370514
ISBN-13: 9781681370514
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Publish Date: 11/01/2016
Dimensions: 6.90" L, 4.50" W, 0.30" H
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