num_pages: 48
description: This celebration of the poet's passionate love for his immortal Beatrice weaves together rapturous sonnets and canzoni with prose commentaries and an autobiographical narrative. A predecessor to The Divine Comedy, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) also serves as an ever-relevant treatise on the art and technique of poetry.
language: English
title: La Vita Nuova
titlecomplete: La Vita Nuova (Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry)
genres: Fiction, 13th Century, Italy, Poetry, Classic Literature, Literature, Romance, Classics, Medieval, Italian Literature
ratings_count: 6984
publisher: Dover Publications