The first full translation into English was published by Joseph Garrow in 1846. Beatrice for Dante was the embodiment of this kind of love-transparent to the Absolute, inspiring the integration of desire aroused by beauty with the longing of the soul for divine splendor. He intended to elevate courtly love poetry, many of its tropes and its language, into sacred love poetry. Sometime in his twenties, Dante decided to try to write love poetry that was less centered on the self and more aimed at love itself. The prose creates the illusion of narrative continuity between the poems it is Dante's way of reconstructing himself and his art in terms of his evolving sense of the limitations of courtly love (the system of ritualized love and art that Dante and his poet-friends inherited from the Provençal poets, the Sicilian poets of the court of Frederick II, and the Tuscan poets before them). The collection and its style fit in with the movement called dolce stil novo. Dante used each prosimetrum as a means for combining poems written over periods of roughly ten years- La Vita Nuova contains his works from before 1283 to roughly 1293. The collection is a prosimetrum, a piece containing both verse and prose, in the vein of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy. Referred to by Dante as his libello, or 'little book,' La Vita Nuova is the first of two collections of verse written by Dante in his life. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse. La Vita Nuova ( pronounced Italian for 'The New Life') or Vita Nova (Latin title) is a text by Dante Alighieri published in 1294. Frontispiece of the English version ( The New Life, D.

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