Today it is not only enjoyed for its imaginative and sensitive love story, but also for its exploration of poetry and religious experience, and the overarching connection between them all Book Details Dante Alighieri was born in 1265 in Florence. The piece transformed European vernacular poetry, and established the Tuscan dialect in which it is written as the Italian standard. It explores the emotions of courtly love, its powerful ability to inspire, and Dante's affirmations of his own religious convictions. Most famous as a sculptor, Pericle Fazzini also transformed Dante’s work into this oversize book with its remarkable sculptural relief of Beatrice on the cover.

'La Vita Nuova' contains works written over a period of ten years, from before 1283 to roughly 1293, and is the semi-autobiographical account of Dante's lifelong love for a woman he called Beatrice. Its allegorical view of the souls crisis and growth combines a narrative with meditations, dreams, songs, and prayers.In this masterpiece of his youth, Dante assembles a selection of his love poems within a prose framework that situates them chronologically and autobiographically. Vita Nuova Dante Alighieri, edited by Mario Marti, illustrated by Pericle Fazzin, Vita nuova (1984). Since the Middle Ages, Dante has been cherished as the 'Supreme Poet,' or simply il Poeta, of Italy, and is most widely recognized for his allegorical 'Divina Commedia'. by which she makes noble what she gazes on: where she passes, all men turn their look on her, and she makes the heart tremble in him she greets, so that, all pale, he lowers his eyes, and sighs, then, over all his failings: anger and pride fleeing before her. 'La Vita Nuova' is the first of two collections of verse and prose written by the Italian poet, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321).

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