Vita Nuova: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text

The New Life (La Vita Nuova) is a beautiful autobiographical love story by one of the world's great vernacular poets, but as is made clear by the ending, Dante's love for Beatrice is not a mere carnal love, but is meant to point as a signpost to "him who is blessed for all eternity". The last section, 42, reminded me of the words of Aslan from C.S. Lewis's "Voyage of the Dawn Treader", that the children in the story and the children reading the books were brought to Narnia that by knowing him a little there they may know him better in their own world. It is the same with Beatrice: Dante's soul sees Beatrice, but Beatrice in heaven is looking on the face of the Lord. Dante concludes by saying he will write no more about her "until I could do so in a more worthy manner", which he would in fact do in his magnum opus "The Divine Comedy".

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My dad just came back from Rome and visited Dante's burial site. He said this was the perfect gift to come home to on his birthday!I also bought a kindle copy for myself and it's a terrific read.

Read this and you'll begin to understand why "modern" poets fail. In "Purgatorio" Dante pioneered exploration of the "Australian Hemisphere" and in this book he did the same for poetry.