The New Life
  • Published: 15 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9781681370514
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $29.99

The New Life

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9 Apr 2024
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One of the most celebrated translations of Dante Alighieri's great love poem, a primary inspiration behind The Divine Comedy, now repackaged in a lovely pocket-sized edition perfect for the devoted Dantisti or the casual poetry lover.

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.

This English-only edition does not include the poems in their original language.
  • Published: 15 November 2016
  • ISBN: 9781681370514
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 128
  • RRP: $29.99
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Praise for The New Life

"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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