At one point, the author of this work sees a woman named Joan who is known as "Spring" because of her beauty, and reflects that her name is appropriate because it derives from John, who preceded Jesus.  Another section discusses poets who have caused
At one point, the author of this work sees a woman named Joan who is known as "Spring" because of her beauty, and reflects that her name is appropriate because it derives from John, who preceded Jesus.  Another section discusses poets who have caused inanimate things to speak, and cites Juno's exchange with Aeolus in the Aeneid as an example.  Jeremiah's line "How doth the city sit solitary" inspires another section, in which the author notes that according to the Arabian calendar a certain person died on the ninth day of the ninth month.  Its closing lines were paraphrased in a letter the author wrote to Can Grande della Scala, and feature a sonnet in which a "pilgrim spirit" looks on as splendors move in homage around a lady.  FTP, name this work in verse and prose, written in response to the death of the daughter of Folco Portinari by Dante Alighieri.
At one point, the author of this work sees a woman named Joan who is known as "Spring" because of her beauty, and reflects that her name is appropriate because it derives from John, who preceded Jesus.  
La Vita Nuova or The New Life