Alighieri, Dante; Dante Gabriel Rosseti, translator
The New Life (la Vita Nuova)
San Francisco, California, A.M. Robertson, . Reprint Edition. Softcover. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Dampstaining at gutter of spine bottom, unobtrusive, dissipating. No date of publication, but appears to be circa 1915. Translated from the original Italian of Dante Alighieri by Dante Gabriel Rosseti. Previous owner's sticker at title page, that of Florence Schloss, and with some of her scattered penciled underlining. This well known collection of sonnets by Dante, La Vita Nuova, The New Life, or Vita Nova (Latin title) was first published in 1294, a masterful exemplar of courtly love written in what is dubbed "a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse" (Wikipedia). 80 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair

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Keywords: Dante Alighieri courtly love poetry prosimetrum prose poeems