La vita nuova (The new life): secondo la lezione del cod. strozziano vi, 143 | 
pickNon 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=
pickDante‘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. 👇👇
View outside my window. In KL and reading at almost 4am, care of a business trip. Body-clock not adjusted...
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 ...”
pickFun 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.
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