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29: 138:, and the Tuscan poets before them). Sometime in his twenties, Dante decided to try to write love poetry that was less centered on the self and more aimed at love itself. He intended to elevate courtly love poetry, many of its tropes and its language, into sacred love poetry. Beatrice for Dante was the embodiment of this kind of love—transparent to the Absolute, inspiring the integration of desire aroused by beauty with the longing of the soul for divine splendor. 206: 830: 570:
Until ch. 31, the outlines appear following the poem. Starting in ch. 31, containing the third canzone, which follows Beatrice's death; Dante says he will make the canzone appear "more widow-like" by placing the structural division before the poem. Dante maintains this order for the remainder of the
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Dante wanted to collect and publish the lyrics dealing with his love for Beatrice, explaining the autobiographical context of its composition and pointing out the expository structure of each lyric as an aid to careful reading. The result is an important early example of emotional autobiography, as
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Dante's two-part commentaries explain each poem, placing them within the context of his life. The chapters containing poems consist of three parts: the semi-autobiographical narrative, the lyric that resulted from those circumstances, and brief structural outline of the lyric. The poems present a
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The names of the people in the poem, including Beatrice herself, are employed without use of surnames or any details that would assist readers to identify them among the many people of Florence. Only the name "Beatrice" is used, because that was both her actual name and her symbolic name as the
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The prose creates the illusion of narrative continuity between the poems; it is Dante's way of reconstructing himself and his art in terms of his evolving sense of the limitations of courtly love (the system of ritualized love and art that Dante and his poet-friends inherited from the Provençal
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as "the first of my friends", to his own sister as "a young and noble lady... who was related to me by the closest consanguinity", to Beatrice's brother similarly as one who "was so linked in consanguinity to the glorious lady that no-one was closer to her". The reader is invited into the very
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called the text "one of the great documents of Christianity," noting that the text displays the influence of Christianity in promulgating "the distinctly feminine virtues in place of the sterner ideals of antiquity."
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and how they develop, how they are expressed in verse, how they reveal the permanent intellectual truths of the divinely created world and how love can confer blessing on the soul and bring it closer to God.
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emotional turmoil and lyrical struggle of the unnamed author's own mind and all the surrounding people in his story are seen in their relations to that mind's quest of encountering Love.
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Each separate section of commentary further refines Dante's concept of romantic love as the initial step in a spiritual development that results in the capacity for divine love (see
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in the 5th century. However, like all medieval literature, it is far removed from the modern autobiographical impulse.
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contains his works from before 1283 to roughly 1293. The collection and its style fit in with the movement called
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A modified version of the opening line of the work's Introduction was used on the television show
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The feeling heart in medieval and early modern Europe : meaning, embodiment, and making
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is the first of two collections of verse written by Dante in his life. The collection is a
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wrote a short story entitled "La Vita Nuova", published in the May 3, 2010 issue of
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Williams, Carol J. (2019). "Two Views of the Feeling Heart in Troubadour Song".
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The first full translation into English was published by Joseph Garrow in 1846.
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contains 42 brief chapters (31 for Guglielmo Gorni) with commentaries on 25
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conferrer of blessing. Ultimately the names and people work as metaphors.
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is helpful for understanding the context of his other works, principally
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as a means for combining poems written over periods of roughly ten years—
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Francesca da Rimini and Paolo Malatesta Appraised by Dante and Virgil
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Dante's Vita Nova: An Introductory Note, a Preface, and an Excerpt
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is notable for being written in Tuscan vernacular, rather than
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Dante and his audience were also interested in the emotions of
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reads this book and leaves the Doctor to discover the poem.
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Index

La vita nuova (EP)

D. G. Rossetti
[laˈviːtaˈnwɔːva]
Italian
Dante Alighieri
medieval genre
courtly love
prosimetrum
prosimetrum
Boethius
Consolation of Philosophy
dolce stil novo
Frederick II
sonnets
ballata
canzoni
canzone
Beatrice Portinari
frame story
love of Beatrice from his first sight of her
courtly love
Latin

Henry Holiday
Dante and Beatrice
Beatrice
Saint Augustine
Confessions
courtly love

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