SOURCE: "Vita Nuova," in An Essay on the "Vita Nuova," 1949. Reprinted by The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977, pp. 78-109.
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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