FAMOUS PLAYWRIGHT POET AND OTHERS
DANTE
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Vita Nuova
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De Monarchia
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De Vulgari Eloquentia
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The Divine Comedy
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Detailed explanation-1: -Hands down, the best version of this text you can currently grab on the market is from the Oxford World Classic’s series. Translated by Mark Musa who’s focus at Indiana University is ancient Italian literature, Vita Nuova shines in this copy.
Detailed explanation-2: -The name “Vita Nuova” (“new life”) comes from the title of Italian medieval poet Dante Alighieri’s first book of poetry.
Detailed explanation-3: -That Dante was aware of the potential significance of the powers of numbers is attested by his linking of Beatrice with the number nine in the Vita nuova. “She was a nine, or a miracle, whose root [radice] … is the miraculous Trinity itself” (29.3).
Detailed explanation-4: -The Vita Nuova is a work of Italian literature, written in alternating prose and verse, composed in the late 1290s by Dante (1265-1321).