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.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| La Vita Nuova canonical | 8 |
| Vita Nuova | 3 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: La Vita Nuova Context triple: [The New Life of Dante, originalTitle, La Vita Nuova]
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Il Canzoniere
Il Canzoniere is a seminal collection of Italian lyric poems by Francesco Petrarca that helped shape Renaissance humanism and the development of modern European poetry.
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Canzoniere
Canzoniere is a collection of Italian poems by Lorenzo de' Medici that reflects his humanist ideals and the cultural vibrancy of Renaissance Florence.
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Trattatello in laude di Dante
Trattatello in laude di Dante is a 14th-century biographical and critical work that offers one of the earliest and most influential accounts of the life and poetry of Dante Alighieri.
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Vita di Petrarca
Vita di Petrarca is a biographical work by the early Renaissance humanist Leonardo Bruni that portrays the life and character of the poet Francesco Petrarca.
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Boccaccio’s Teseida
Boccaccio’s Teseida is a 14th-century Italian epic poem that recounts the rival love of two friends for the same woman, set against the backdrop of ancient Thebes and often regarded as a key source for later Renaissance and English literary works.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: La Vita Nuova Target entity description: 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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A.
Il Canzoniere
Il Canzoniere is a seminal collection of Italian lyric poems by Francesco Petrarca that helped shape Renaissance humanism and the development of modern European poetry.
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B.
Canzoniere
Canzoniere is a collection of Italian poems by Lorenzo de' Medici that reflects his humanist ideals and the cultural vibrancy of Renaissance Florence.
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C.
Trattatello in laude di Dante
Trattatello in laude di Dante is a 14th-century biographical and critical work that offers one of the earliest and most influential accounts of the life and poetry of Dante Alighieri.
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D.
Vita di Petrarca
Vita di Petrarca is a biographical work by the early Renaissance humanist Leonardo Bruni that portrays the life and character of the poet Francesco Petrarca.
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E.
Boccaccio’s Teseida
Boccaccio’s Teseida is a 14th-century Italian epic poem that recounts the rival love of two friends for the same woman, set against the backdrop of ancient Thebes and often regarded as a key source for later Renaissance and English literary works.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Italian literary work
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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
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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
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love literature ⓘ lyric poetry ⓘ |
| hasLiteraryForm | visionary autobiography ⓘ |
| includes |
allegorical interpretations of poems
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prose explanations of poems ⓘ |
| influenced |
Divine Comedy
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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
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key work of the Dolce Stil Novo tradition ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Dante (protagonist)
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surface form:
Dante (narrator)
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| mainSubject | idealized love for Beatrice ⓘ |
| narrativeFocus |
Dante’s encounters with Beatrice
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Dante’s inner emotional and spiritual development ⓘ |
| narrativeForm | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Italian ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Vita nuova ⓘ |
| period |
Medieval Italy
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surface form:
Italian Middle Ages
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| settingLocation | Florence ⓘ |
| structure | sequence of poems with prose commentaries ⓘ |
| theme |
courtly love
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grief and mourning ⓘ idealization of the beloved woman ⓘ religious symbolism ⓘ spiritualization of love ⓘ visionary experience ⓘ |
| tone |
devotional
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introspective ⓘ |
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