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The New Life (Annotated): La Vita Nuova

by Dante Alighieri

Before the Inferno, there was Beatrice. La Vita Nuova is Dante's account of the love that shaped his life and his poetry — a strange, beautiful hybrid of verse and prose commentary in which the poet gathers his own sonnets and canzoni and explains, one by one, the occasions that produced them. It is the first work of its kind in European literature: an author reading himself in public, building a spiritual autobiography out of longing, grief, and a vision of love that would eventually carry him through Hell and up to Paradise. This Sequoia annotated edition presents the complete text with notes on Dante's Florence, the courtly love tradition he inherited and transformed, and the ways this early work prepares the ground for the Divine Comedy.

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