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Vita Nova
Andrew Frisardi
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Description for Vita Nova
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 456.
Dante’s Vita Nova (circa 1292–1295) depicts the joys and sorrows, the discoveries and conflicts of Dante’s early love for Beatrice—who would achieve later and even greater fame in Commedia—starting with his first sighting of her and culminating in his prevision of Beatrice among the beatified in heaven. Award-winning translator and poet Andrew Frisardi channels the vigor and nuance of Dante’s first masterpiece for a modern audience. The “little book,” as Dante calls it, consists of thirty-one lyric poems—mostly sonnets—embedded in a prose narrative, which both recounts an apparently autobiographical set of events also evoked in the poems and offers analysis ... Read more
Dante’s Vita Nova (circa 1292–1295) depicts the joys and sorrows, the discoveries and conflicts of Dante’s early love for Beatrice—who would achieve later and even greater fame in Commedia—starting with his first sighting of her and culminating in his prevision of Beatrice among the beatified in heaven. Award-winning translator and poet Andrew Frisardi channels the vigor and nuance of Dante’s first masterpiece for a modern audience. The “little book,” as Dante calls it, consists of thirty-one lyric poems—mostly sonnets—embedded in a prose narrative, which both recounts an apparently autobiographical set of events also evoked in the poems and offers analysis ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810127210
SKU
V9780810127210
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About Andrew Frisardi
Supreme Poet, Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) wrote what most consider the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and what is perhaps the greatest work of the Middle Ages, the Commedia. Andrew Frisardi is a writer, translator, and editor who resides in Orvieto, Italy. His translation of the selected poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti won the 2003 Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award. ... Read more
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