Today we celebrate World Poetry Day with Dante Alighieri’s La Vita Nuova! Originally published
Today we celebrate World Poetry Day with Dante Alighieri’s La Vita Nuova! Originally published in 1295, this story of courtly love was written in Italian and used a prosimetrum style (mixture of prose and verse). The prose bridges the poems together as Dante comments on autobiographical points or explains the poetry structure in detail.(image from: Dante Alighieri’s The New Life, translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, pictured by Evelyn Paul (PQ4315.58 .R72)) -- source link
#dante alighieri#prosimetrum#noel collection