| Author: | Dante Alighieri | ISBN: | 9780714547954 |
| Publisher: | Alma Books | Publication: | December 15, 2009 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Dante Alighieri |
| ISBN: | 9780714547954 |
| Publisher: | Alma Books |
| Publication: | December 15, 2009 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
The Vita Nuova remains a central document in European culture’s examination of love and the self. It is a hundred and fifty years since Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s groundbreaking version of the Vita Nuova. Now Anthony Mortimer, already acclaimed as translator of Cavalcanti, Petrarch and Michelangelo, produces a verse translation that avoids Rossetti’s disturbing archaisms but preserves a lyric immediacy worthy of the original. This is a Vita Nuova for the twenty-first century. Vita Nuova is here presented in a dual-language edition.
The Vita Nuova remains a central document in European culture’s examination of love and the self. It is a hundred and fifty years since Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s groundbreaking version of the Vita Nuova. Now Anthony Mortimer, already acclaimed as translator of Cavalcanti, Petrarch and Michelangelo, produces a verse translation that avoids Rossetti’s disturbing archaisms but preserves a lyric immediacy worthy of the original. This is a Vita Nuova for the twenty-first century. Vita Nuova is here presented in a dual-language edition.
