Skip to Main Content (Press Enter) Toggle side nav
The New Life by Dante Alighieri
Add to bookshelf
Add to Bookshelf

The New Life

By Dante Alighieri
Introduction by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Preface by Michael Palmer
Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

By Dante Alighieri
Introduction by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Preface by Michael Palmer
Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

By Dante Alighieri
Introduction by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Preface by Michael Palmer
Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

By Dante Alighieri
Introduction by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Preface by Michael Palmer
Translated by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Best Seller

Part of NYRB Poets

Category: Poetry

Category: Poetry

Paperback $14.00

Nov 01, 2016 | ISBN 9781681370514

Ebook $11.99

Nov 01, 2016 | ISBN 9781681370521

All Formats
+
    The New Life by Dante Alighieri
    Paperback $14.00
    Nov 01, 2016 | ISBN 9781681370514

    Buy from Other Retailers:

    See All Formats (1) +

    Paperback
    –

    • Paperback $14.00

      Nov 01, 2016 | ISBN 9781681370514

      Buy from Other Retailers:

    Ebook
    +

    • Ebook

      Nov 01, 2016 | ISBN 9781681370521

      Buy from Other Retailers:

    *This title is not eligible for purchase to earn points nor for redemption with your code in the Reader Rewards program

    Buy the Ebook:

    About The New Life

    The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante’s youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul’s crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams and songs and prayers, The New Life is a work of crystalline beauty and fascinating complexity that has long taken its place as one of the supreme revelations in the literature of love.  

    The New Life is published here in the beautiful translation by the English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, an inspired poetic re-creation comparable to Edward Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and a classic in its own right.

    About The New Life

    The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante’s youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul’s crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams and songs and prayers, The New Life is a work of crystalline beauty and fascinating complexity that has long taken its place as one of the supreme revelations in the literature of love.  

    The New Life is published here in the beautiful translation by the English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, an inspired poetic re-creation comparable to Edward Fitzgerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and a classic in its own right.

    Also by Dante Alighieri

    Purgatorio
    The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
    See all books by Dante Alighieri

    Also by Dante Alighieri

    Purgatorio
    The Inferno of Dante Alighieri
    See all books by Dante Alighieri

    Product Details

    Category: Poetry

    Paperback | $14.00
    Published by NYRB Poets
    Nov 01, 2016 | 128 Pages | 4-1/2 x 7 | ISBN 9781681370514

    Category: Poetry

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by NYRB Poets
    Nov 01, 2016 | 128 Pages | ISBN 9781681370521

    Inspired by Your Browsing History

    Buy other books like The New Life

    ‹ ›
    Poem a Day: Vol. 3
    Poem a Day: Vol. 3
    Awkwafina's NYC
    Awkwafina’s NYC
    Nora Lum
    Poems to Night
    Poems to Night
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    Visits from the Seventh
    Visits from the Seventh
    Sarah Arvio
    The Broken Word
    The Broken Word
    Adam Foulds
    Greetings From Angelus
    Greetings From Angelus
    Gershom Scholem
    Shapeshifter
    Shapeshifter
    Alice Paalen Rahon
    Diaries of Exile
    Diaries of Exile
    Yannis Ritsos
    Unknown Friends
    Unknown Friends
    Carl Dennis
    new poems
    new poems
    Tadeusz Rozewicz
    Smoke
    Smoke
    Jay McInerney
    The Dance
    The Dance
    Messages from Your Animal Spirit Guides Oracle Cards
    Messages from Your Animal Spirit Guides Oracle Cards
    Steven D. Farmer
    Everyday Positive Thinking
    Everyday Positive Thinking
    Louise Hay
    Greeks and Their Gods
    Greeks and Their Gods
    William Guthrie
    The Beer Book
    The Beer Book
    DK
    The Supplicating Voice
    The Supplicating Voice
    Samuel Johnson
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
    The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
    Anne Bronte
    Three Poets of the First World War
    Three Poets of the First World War
    Ivor Gurney, Wilfred Owen and Isaac Rosenberg
    The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
    The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
    The Coral Kingdom
    The Coral Kingdom
    Douglas Niles
    Healing Pandora
    Healing Pandora
    Gail Thomas
    Renaissance Women Poets
    Renaissance Women Poets
    Isabella Whitney, Aemilia Lanyer and Mary Sidney
    What Women Want
    What Women Want
    Stefan Bechtel and Laurence Roy Stains
    The Complete Idiot's Guide to Rumi Meditations
    The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Rumi Meditations
    Yahiya Emerick
    Daniel E. Greene Studios and Subways
    Daniel E. Greene Studios and Subways
    Maureen Bloomfield and Daniel Greene
    Refusal of the Shadow
    Refusal of the Shadow
    Nature. Aesthetics. Design.
    Nature. Aesthetics. Design.
    Peter Berg
    Travels
    Travels
    W. S. Merwin
    Moses
    Moses
    Greg Asimakoupoulos
    Guardian Angel Messages Tarot
    Guardian Angel Messages Tarot
    Radleigh Valentine
    Dirty Pretty Things
    Dirty Pretty Things
    Michael Faudet

    Praise

    “Rossetti made a remarkable translation of the Vita Nuova, in some places improving (or at least enriching) the original. He was indubitably the man ‘sent,’ or ‘chosen,’ for that particular job.” —Ezra Pound
     
    “[Rossetti’s translation is] the fruit of countless hours of brooding over Italian painting, Italian images, Italian sounds and thoughts.” —John Wain

    Looking for More Great Reads?
    21 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read
    Get the latest updates from Dante Alighieri
    And go from well-read to best read with book recs, deals and more in your inbox every week.
    And go from well-read to best read with book recs, deals and more in your inbox every week.
    By clicking SIGN UP, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
    Dismiss
    Thanks!
    Something awesome is on its way.
    Back to Top

    Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network

    Raise kids who love to read

    Brightly

    Raise kids who love to read
    Today's Top Books

    Today's Top Books

    Want to know what people are actually reading right now?
    An online magazine for today’s home cook

    TASTE

    An online magazine for today’s home cook