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La Vita Nuova Information
1,623 words, approx. 5 pages
 La Vita Nuova (English: New Life) is a book of verse written by Dante Alighieri around the year of 1293. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Maria Rosa Menocal
11,548 words, approx. 39 pages
 Menocal argues in this excerpt that the Vita Nuova's real subject is Dante's search for a viable poetry and that he ultimately succeeds when he adopts an absolute literalness.
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Critical Essay by J. E. Shaw
7,169 words, approx. 24 pages
 In this essay, Shaw, repudiating the generally accepted view that the Vita Nuova is an allegory, proposes an interpretation based on a literal reading of the historical events recounted in the narrative.
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Critical Essay by Charles S. Singleton
7,096 words, approx. 24 pages
 In the following excerpt, Singleton examines the relationship between the Vita Nuova and Provençal love poetry, discerning that Dante's use of medieval mysticism in his book's conception of love distinguishes it from the Proven, cal tradition.


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