La Vita Nuova

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La Vita Nuova is a prosimetrum by Dante Alighieri that blends poetry and prose to recount his idealized love for Beatrice and mark an important early work in Italian literature.

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La Vita Nuova canonical 8
Vita Nuova 3

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Italian literary work
medieval literary work
prosimetrum
alsoKnownAs The New Life
approximateCompositionEnd c. 1294
approximateCompositionStart c. 1292
author Dante Alighieri
centralFigure Beatrice Portinari
concludesWith vow to speak of Beatrice more worthily in the future
contains ballate
canzoni
prose narrative sections
sonnets
countryOfOrigin Italy
dateWritten late 13th century
focusesOn Beatrice’s life and death
form blend of prose and poetry
genre autobiographical literature
love literature
lyric poetry
hasLiteraryForm visionary autobiography
includes allegorical interpretations of poems
prose explanations of poems
influenced Divine Comedy
surface form: The Divine Comedy

later European love poetry
languageRegister Tuscan vernacular
literaryInnovation systematic self-commentary on poems
literaryMovement Dolce Stil Novo
literarySignificance early masterpiece of Italian vernacular literature
key work of the Dolce Stil Novo tradition
mainCharacter Dante (protagonist)
surface form: Dante (narrator)
mainSubject idealized love for Beatrice
narrativeFocus Dante’s encounters with Beatrice
Dante’s inner emotional and spiritual development
narrativeForm first-person narrative
originalLanguage Italian
originalTitle Vita nuova
period Medieval Italy
surface form: Italian Middle Ages
settingLocation Florence
structure sequence of poems with prose commentaries
theme courtly love
grief and mourning
idealization of the beloved woman
religious symbolism
spiritualization of love
visionary experience
tone devotional
introspective

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The New Life of Dante originalTitle La Vita Nuova
The New Life of Dante subject La Vita Nuova
Beatrice firstAppearance La Vita Nuova
this entity surface form: Vita Nuova
Durante notableWork La Vita Nuova
subject surface form: Durante degli Alighieri
Dolce Stil Novo relatedWork La Vita Nuova
Guido Cavalcanti mentionedIn La Vita Nuova
Beata Beatrix (painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti) inspiredBy La Vita Nuova
subject surface form: Beata Beatrix
Blessed Beatrice inspiredBy La Vita Nuova
Dante’s Dream inspiredBy La Vita Nuova
this entity surface form: Vita Nuova
Dante’s Dream basedOnLiteraryWork La Vita Nuova
this entity surface form: Vita Nuova
La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri alternativeTitle La Vita Nuova
subject surface form: La Vita Nuova