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    <body><![CDATA[<em>New Life</em> by Dante Alighieri is one of the most elegant short works of poetry and prose in Western literature.  This book is around eighty pages, but it is one that inspires the spirit eternally.  This work precedes Dante's timeless masterpiece <em>Divine Comedy</em> by over ten years, and if you want a glimp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61603393">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Itâ€™s hard not to read the <em>Vita Nuova</em> in the light of the <em>Divine Comedy</em>, to which itâ€™ll always be adjunct. But the bookâ€”Danteâ€™s firstâ€”has a value all its own as one of the strangest and most ambitious literary debuts of all time. Not content to collect his early poems, Dante sets out to ins...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43211374">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I'd gone through and read the sonnets, now I'm actually reading the whole thing.  The sonnets stand alone as works of beauty.  With the prose a work of comedy comes to the fore.  Just as Shakespeare intends R + J to be a farcical device for social commentary, so too Dante's example of impossibly imp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/39022330">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the most important thing i learn from this book is the very person of dante. to this date, i know dante only in relation to la divina comedia. well, i don't exactly know what this holy book discuss, but from readers around me, i know that this holy book is wholly difficult to enjoy. hehehe... but in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13007505">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This short little work is well worth reading if you want to know more about the origins of Dante's love affair with Beatrice - or, more accurately, if you want to read about the edited representation of the origins of his love which Dante presents. In many ways, this is my least favourite of Dante's...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1675961">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[includes an essay (1/2 the book) which should be read after the Dante; I like the inclusion of the Italian for each of the sonnets and canzones; brief preface &amp; translator's note (6pp) worth reading first; this version also includes the original Latin (with footnotes) which maintains the flavor &amp; rh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49957566">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[one of my favorite reads!  not that this was a hugely funny read, but i found myself laughing a lot while reading this... just imagining dante write this back in the day. such spirit and life. what a mind!  I found it easier to read than divine comedy... it's a quick read and easier to follow.  perh...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68626648">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quite probably deserves better than a three-star review.  It is Dante, after all.  Still, this book did not have a firm grip on my attention, and I found myself often thinking about such things as cooking dinner and picking out a new shower curtain.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[If this is to be considered Dantean juvenilia, it stands as a decent, if unpolished, work. Considered on its own merits, this is awkward, bombastic and poorly written; the prosemetric is annoying, and Dante seems to be desperately trying to enamor us with his conceits. Tiresome. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Dante's autobiography, it mostly treats his interactions with, and feelings for, Beatrice.  Dante's shyness comes across to the reader and he finishes the work by laying the footings for his Commedia Divina.  I could not find the particular edition which I read, so I cannot comment on this particula...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6702406">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The use of language in this book is quite simply gorgeous and I would certainly recommend reading this before going on to reading the Commedia. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this work as much as I love the D.C.<br/>I am working on reading both in Italian and it is hard but worth the struggle]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is my 3rd or 4th time reading this book. I have a very old copy with the Italian on one side and the English translation on the other.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A preface and key to understanding the Divine Commedy.  This contains Dante's dream of Beatrice and his hope to praise her in writing.  Fascinating.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Best translation, must-read intro...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[erotiko me vari mesaioniko parelthon]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This edition of Vita Nuova gets either 2 stars or 5, depending on what you're reading it for.  For anyone who has a decent grasp of Italian and wants to read the original with a facing, literal translation, this is the one to read.  I looked long and hard for a dual language book of this, and this i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3063099">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Everyone should take the chance to yell at a long-dead Florentine and call him a jackass; my edition is en face, which makes it much more fun, but regardless, I cannot be the only person to read this and boggle.  Because, seriously, this is not a relationship, this is not even the relationship of a ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/25813726">more...</a>]]></body>
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