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Dante's Vita Nuova
Dante's Vita Nuova: A Translation and an Essay | Dante Alighieri
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In this new edition Musa views Dante's intention as one of cruel and comic commentary on the shallowness and self-pity of his protagonist, who only occasionally glimpses the true nature of love. "... the explication de texte which accompanies [Musa's] translation is instructively novel, always admirable.... This present work offers English readers a lengthy appraisal which should figure in future scholarly discussions." Choice
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pigiann
La Vita Nuova | Dante Alighieri
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Non credo che richieda tante presentazioni. La storia dell'evoluzione di un amore e dell'uomo che lo vive, dai dettami dell'amor cortese a una visione più sublimata della donna amata. Un classico della nostra letteratura. Recensione completa: https://www.instagram.com/p/CcKhc60sNr5/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

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Dante‘s first complete book, on himself as an obsessed lover overcome with intensely conflicting and paralyzing emotions. He‘s unable to look at his Beatrice without breaking down, much less talk to her! Yes, this is Dante as a self-obsessed and really irritating stalker. But he disarms the reader, captures it all in scattered verse, and it seems he is actually making fun of himself. Enjoyed it and its maybe unexpected complexity. 👇👇

Graywacke On the surface this is a really sad story of Dante falling in love at 18 with a woman he can see but can‘t talk to, and who the will pass away at age 25 without ever having spoken to him, leaving him hollow and looking for something to make of his obsession. 4y
Graywacke But, Mark Musa‘s essay highlights the other side: “The Vita nuova is a cruel book. Cruel, that is, in the treatment of the human type represented by the protagonist (Dante). In the picture of the lover there is offered a condemnation of the vice of emotional self-indulgence and an exposure of its destructive effects on a man‘s integrity.” 4y
Suet624 “The vice of emotional self-indulgence...” that is a long established vice of mine. 4y
Graywacke @Suet624 🤣 Aren‘t we supposed to grow out of it at some point? 4y
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Graywacke
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View outside my window. In KL and reading at almost 4am, care of a business trip. Body-clock not adjusted...

GingerAntics Beautiful view, though. 4y
BarbaraBB You‘re not the only one awake there at 4 AM 😀 Save travels! (edited) 4y
Lcsmcat Wow, that‘s a beautiful city. I hope you‘re staying long enough to do more than just work. 4y
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CarolynM It's a long time since I visited KL but I have happy memories. Enjoy! 4y
Slajaunie What city is KL?? 4y
Graywacke @GingerAntics Yeah...But I was tired and only just realized I captured half of the Petronas towers in my picture. Didn‘t recognize them last night. 4y
Graywacke @BarbaraBB well, that‘s true. And Thanks! 4y
Graywacke @Lcsmcat mostly work, but have some free time. Unfortunately...it‘s monsoon season and it will rain every day I‘m here...like all day. (Sunny for the moment though). 4y
Graywacke @CarolynM thanks! I‘ve been here once before, with family visiting friends. Near place. 4y
Graywacke @Slajaunie KL is the abbreviation of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Oddly, most people seem to just call it. KL (From Wikipedia: “Kuala Lumpur means "muddy confluence" in Malay; kuala is the point where two rivers join together or an estuary, and lumpur means "mud".”) 4y
Slajaunie It is a beautiful city. Thank you for the clarification. 4y
Hooked_on_books Wow, Malaysia. Cool! 4y
Graywacke @Slajaunie @Hooked_on_books I'm only seeing a tiny part of this city, the city center (KLCC), which is oddly beautiful. Streets are sort of empty of pedestrians, but lots of underground or raise and enclosed walkways full of people. And, of course, tall fancy buildings in every direction. And, of course, tons of visitors, like me. 4y
Hooked_on_books Do you feel tall there? I‘ve never been to Asia, but I‘ve been to Guatemala and Ecuador and I felt very tall and pale in both places (I‘m 5‘8”, so I‘m no Amazon). 4y
batsy That's a great shot! 💜 Hope your body clock adjusts but this is a pretty huge time difference, it's tough! 4y
Cathythoughts What an amazing sight 4y
Graywacke @Hooked_on_books I never feel tall 🤣 (I‘m 5‘8” too, but that‘s different for guys.) 4y
Graywacke @batsy me too. 😟 Actually it‘s been ok, I just haven‘t slept much lately- like in the last 48 hours. 4y
Graywacke @Cathythoughts yeah, it kind of is. 4y
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Starting and immediately into this - a 1973 translation by Mark Musa.

“...she turned her eyes to where I was standing faint-hearted and, with that indescribable graciousness for which she is rewarded in the eternal life, she greeted me so miraculously that I seemed at that moment to behold the entire range of possible bliss. ... I became so ecstatic that, like a drunken man, I turned away from everyone ...”

readordierachel Wow. That packs quite a punch. 4y
Graywacke @readordierachel yeah. I was expecting boring, but it has a lot of energy in the text, a lot going on in the few pages I‘ve read. 4y
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Fun story about another college read. My prof thought the title of the course was Myth, Symbol, and Allegory (it was Allusion) and so we read this lovely ode to life and love and, of course, Beatrice.

LusMat <3 a deep work, the sonnets are incredible.. In Italian it's even better! :P 8y
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