![]() ![]() Written in the Tuscan vernacular, the poem was influential in establishing a standardized Italian language.Ĭompiled and published following the death of Beatrice Portinari, whom Dante loved from the age of nine when he saw her on the streets of Florence, The New Life translates his personal grief into a moving and universally recognizable work on the nature of love. ![]() Made up of alternating commentaries, sonnets, and canzoni, the work is an essential expression of Dante’s poetic gift, and a foundational work for the dolce stil novo literary movement to which Dante was a central figure. Composed in the prosimetrum style, The New Life explores the popular medieval theme of courtly love. The New Life (1294) is a work of verse and prose by Italian poet Dante Alighieri. ![]()
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