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Vita Nuova
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autobiographical work by Dante Alighieri
Wikidata facts
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- #41085
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Dante Alighieri
- Genre
- autobiography
- Country of origin
- Italy
- Dedicated to
- Guido Cavalcanti
- Image
- Dante, vita nova, ms. bncf, XV secolo.JPG
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- publication date
- 1295-00-00
- Commons category
- Vita Nuova
- copyright status
- public domain
- derivative work
- Vide Cor Meum
- title
- Vita nuova
- form of creative work
- prose
- different from
- Novaya Zhizn
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Encyclopedic overview
Frontispiece of the English version (The New Life, D. G. Rossetti, 1899) La Vita Nuova ( pronounced [la ˈviːta ˈnwɔːva]; modern Italian for "The New Life") or Vita Nova (Latin and medieval Italian title ) is a text by Dante Alighieri published in 1294. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse.
History and context
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vita Nuova” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.