La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri
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La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri is a medieval Italian prosimetrum that blends poetry and prose to recount Dante’s idealized love for Beatrice and mark an early, influential step toward his later masterpiece, the Divine Comedy.
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| La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri canonical | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri Context triple: [The New Life of Dante, basedOn, La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri]
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The New Life of Dante
The New Life of Dante is Charles Eliot Norton's influential English translation and scholarly edition of Dante Alighieri’s early autobiographical work "La Vita Nuova," which helped introduce and interpret Dante to an English-speaking audience.
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Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy is a monumental Italian epic poem that narrates the poet’s allegorical journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, exploring themes of sin, redemption, and divine justice.
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C.
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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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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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.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
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Target entity: La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri Target entity description: La Vita Nuova by Dante Alighieri is a medieval Italian prosimetrum that blends poetry and prose to recount Dante’s idealized love for Beatrice and mark an early, influential step toward his later masterpiece, the Divine Comedy.
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A.
The New Life of Dante
The New Life of Dante is Charles Eliot Norton's influential English translation and scholarly edition of Dante Alighieri’s early autobiographical work "La Vita Nuova," which helped introduce and interpret Dante to an English-speaking audience.
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B.
Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy is a monumental Italian epic poem that narrates the poet’s allegorical journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, exploring themes of sin, redemption, and divine justice.
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C.
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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D.
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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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 (51)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Italian literature
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medieval literary work ⓘ prosimetrum ⓘ |
| alternativeTitle |
La Vita Nuova
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The New Life ⓘ |
| approximateCompositionEnd | c. 1294 ⓘ |
| approximateCompositionStart | c. 1292 ⓘ |
| author | Dante Alighieri ⓘ |
| contains |
ballate
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canzoni ⓘ sonnets ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Italy ⓘ |
| dateWritten | late 13th century ⓘ |
| focus |
Dante’s love for Beatrice
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spiritual transformation of the lover ⓘ |
| form | mixture of prose and poetry ⓘ |
| genre |
autobiographical work
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courtly love literature ⓘ love literature ⓘ lyric poetry ⓘ prosimetrum ⓘ |
| includes | prose commentaries explaining the poems ⓘ |
| influenced | Divine Comedy ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Christian theology
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courtly love tradition ⓘ |
| languageFeature | Tuscan vernacular ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | Dolce Stil Novo ⓘ |
| literarySignificance |
early masterpiece of Italian vernacular literature
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important precursor to Renaissance love poetry ⓘ key work of the Dolce Stil Novo movement ⓘ |
| mainCharacter |
Beatrice Portinari
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Dante (protagonist) ⓘ
surface form:
Dante (narrator)
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| narrativeDevice | autobiographical recollection of youthful love ⓘ |
| narrativeMode | first-person narrative ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | Italian ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Vita nuova ⓘ |
| period | Middle Ages ⓘ |
| placeInAuthorCareer | early work of Dante Alighieri ⓘ |
| protagonist | Dante (narrator) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| relationToOtherWork | early work preparing for the Divine Comedy ⓘ |
| setting | Florence ⓘ |
| structure | alternating prose and poems ⓘ |
| subjectMatter | life and death of Beatrice as seen by Dante ⓘ |
| theme |
courtly love
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grief and loss ⓘ idealized love ⓘ memory and recollection ⓘ poetry and inspiration ⓘ religious devotion ⓘ spiritual love ⓘ visionary experience ⓘ |
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