The New Life (or La Vita Nuova) by Dante Alighieri
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, this work of crystalline beauty and fascinating complexity has long taken its place as one of the supreme revelations in the literature of love.
NYRB Classics, 2002.
ISBN: 9780940322875. 108 pp.
Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Introduction by Michael Palmer.
Hardcover. Near fine in a near fine jacket.