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The New Life

The New Life

by Dante Alighieri, translated from the classical Italian and with an introduction by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, preface by Michael Palmer

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The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante Alighieri’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, this work of crystalline beauty and fascinating complexity has long taken its place as one of the supreme revelations in the literature of love.

Published here in the beautiful translation by the nineteenth-century English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The New Life is 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.

 

Additional Book Information

Series: NYRB Poets
ISBN: 9781681370514
Pages: 128
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Praise

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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