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LA VITA NUOVA DANTE ALIGHIERI was born in Florence in 1265 and belonged to a noble but impoverished family. He followed a normal course of studies, possibly attending university in Bologna, and when he was about twenty he married Gemma Donati, by whom he had three children. He had first met Bice Portinari, whom he called Beatrice, in 1274, and when she died in 1290 he sought distraction by studying philosophy and theology and by writing the Vita Nuova. During this time he became involved in the strife between the Guelfs and the Ghibellines; he became a prominent White Guelf and when the Black Guelfs came to power in 1302 Dante, during an absence from Florence, was condemned to exile. He took refuge first in Verona and after wandering from place to place, possibly to Paris and even, some have said improbably, to Oxford, he settled in Ravenna. While there he completed The Divine Comedy, which he had begun in about 1308, if not later. Dante died in Ravenna in 1321. BARBARA REYNOLDS was for twenty-two years Lecturer in Italian at Cambridge University and subsequently Reader in Italian Studies at Nottingham University. Her first book was a textual reconstruction of the linguistic writings of Alessandro Manzoni. The General Editor of the Cambridge Italian Dictionary, she was created Cavaliere Ufficiale al Merito della Repubblica Italiana in 1978. She has been awarded silver medals by the Italian Government and by the Province of Vicenza and the Edmund Gardner Prize for her services to Italian scholarship. She has been Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, at Wheaton College, Illinois, at Hope College, Michigan, and at Trinity College, Dublin. She has translated Dante’s Paradiso,left unfinished by Dorothy L. Sayers on her death in 1957, and Ariosto’s Orlando Furiosofor the Penguin Classics. She is the author of The Passionate Intellect: Dorothy L. Sayers’ Encounter with Dante and Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul. She is also the editor of The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers. She holds three Honorary Doctorates and is the managing editor of SEVEN: An Anglo- American Literary Review. DANTE ALIGHIERI La Vita Nuova (Poems of Youth) Translated with an Introduction by BARBARA REYNOLDS REVISED EDITION PENGUIN BOOKS PENGUIN BOOKS Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Books Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 375 Hudson Street, New York, New York 10014, USA Penguin Books Australia Ltd, 250 Camberwell Road, Camberwell, Victoria 312.4, Australia Penguin Books Canada Ltd, 10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4V 3B2 Penguin Books India (P) Ltd, 11 Community Centre, Panchsheel Park, New Delhi – 110 017, India Penguin Books (NZ) Ltd, Cnr Rosedale and Airborne Roads, Albany, Auckland, New Zealand Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd, 24 Sturdee Avenue, Rosebank 2196, South Africa Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL, England www.penguin.com This translation first published 1969 Revised edition, 2004 4 Copyright © Barbara Reynolds, 1969, 2004 All rights reserved Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser EISBN: 978–0–141–90734–5 Contents Foreword to the Revised Edition Chronology Introduction Further Reading A Note on the Translation LA VITA NUOVA I II III First Sonnet IV V VI VII Second Sonnet (double) VIII Third Sonnet Fourth Sonnet (double) IX Fifth Sonnet X XI XII Ballad XIII Sixth Sonnet XIV Seventh Sonnet XV Eighth Sonnet XVI Ninth Sonnet XVII XVIII XIX First Canzone XX Tenth Sonnet XXI Eleventh Sonnet XXII Twelfth Sonnet Thirteenth Sonnet XXIII Second Canzone XXIV Fourteenth Sonnet XXV XXVI Fifteenth Sonnet Sixteenth Sonnet XXVII Third Canzone (unfinished; one stanza only) XXVIII XXIX XXX XXXI Fourth Canzone XXXII Seventeenth Sonnet XXXIII Fifth Canzone (two stanzas only, but complete) XXXIV Eighteenth Sonnet (with two beginnings) XXXV Nineteenth Sonnet XXXVI Twentieth Sonnet XXXVII Twenty-first Sonnet XXXVIII Twenty-second Sonnet XXXIX Twenty-third Sonnet XL Twenty-fourth Sonnet XLI Twenty-fifth Sonnet XLII Notes Index of first lines of poems Foreword to the Revised Edition Over thirty years have passed since my translation of the Vita Nuova was first published by Penguin Classics in 1969. It has been reprinted many times and has met with a measure of acceptance. Since then I have altered some of my views on the work and in the course of writing a biography of Dante I have made one or two discoveries. I have accordingly provided a new Introduction and made a few adjustments to the Notes. There are also some alterations to the verse. Cambridge, 2003
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