Vita Nuova: The New Life (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780942208474)

Dante's putative subject is Beatrice/Love-but the Vita Nuova is really an exercise in poetry: Dante sets the emotional scene for a poem, then he writes the poem, then he explains the poem's structure, part by part. The work shows what we recognize today as a literary attitude, a critical stance on a piece of writing. His precision in thinking about how thoughts ought to be organized may seem pedantic, yet this is the mind that later engaged the question of what Hell might look like, and why and how, not from a religious point of view but as an extended imaginative venture.

Author: Sasha Newborn, Dante Alighieri
ISBN-10: 0942208471
ISBN-13: 9780942208474
Publisher: Bandanna Books
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2011
Pages: 104
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.25d