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Dantets Vita Nuova: A,. .,T. r,a..n,s. l,a..ti,o. n,. .a,.n d,. .a,n. ,E.s.,s.a,y. .,. DANTE'S V1111 NUOVA A Translation and an Essay by Mark Musa A NE'W EDITION Indiana University Press Bloomington © Copyright I973 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, wit bout permission in writing from tbe publisber. The Association of American University Presses Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to tbis probibition. Publisbed in Canada by & Fitzhenry Whiteside Limited, Don Mills, Ontario Library of Congress catalog card number: 72-79905 0--253-31620-0 d. 0--253-20162-4 pa. ISBN: Manufactured in the United States of America 10 11 12 00 99 For Anna Granville Hatcher who once told me that Scholarship is the drama between the scholar's bright idea and the seductive and implacable evidence. CONTENTS Preface / ix Translator's Note / xiii The / 3 New Life An Essay on the / 87 Vita Nuova I Patterns / 89 II Aspects / 106 III Growth / '34 Notes on the Essay / '75 PREFACE ,..,..,..,..,..,.. tf7',..,.. THE one of Dante's earliest Vita Nuova, works, is a combination of prose and poetry. There are thirty one poems inserted into the prose text according to the follow- ing arrangement: I ....... XVI sonnet XXIX ....... II ....... XVII ....... XXX ....... III sonnet XVIII ....... XXXI canzone IV XIX can zone XXXII sonnet V ....... XX sonnet XXXIII unfinished VI ....... XXI sonnet canzone VII sonnet XXII sonnet XXXIV sonnet VIII sonnet sonnet XXXV sonnet sonnet XXIII canzone XXXVI sonnet IX sonnet XXIV sonnet XXXVII sonnet X sonnet XXV ....... XXXVIII sonnet Xl ....... XXVI sonnet XXXIX sonnet XII ballad sonnet XL sonnet XIII sonnet XXVII reduced XLI sonnet XIV sonnet canzone XLII ....... XV sonnet XXVIII ....... The originality of the consists not in the mixture Vita nuova of prose and verse (a device used by Boethius in his Philoso and, a century before him, by Martianus phiae Consolatio Capella), but in the functional relationship between the two: it seems to be a fact that the is the first work of Vita nuova fiction including both prose and poetry, in which the prose ix

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