David Slavitt's translation of this book removed its explicating passages.
David Slavitt's translation of this book removed its explicating passages. In one poem in this book, love tells the speaker that a woman is called Primavera because her name, Joan, derives from John the Baptist. This book was inspired by a dream in which a figure told the author "Ego dominus tuus" while carrying a woman who then ate the author's heart. Its author quotes Jeremiah's line "How solitary lies the city" before writing a poem on the death of its central figure, though part of this book ignores that figure to address a substitute love interest called "the gracious lady." Referred to by its author as his libello, or little book, this prosimetrum includes poems such as "Ladies, you who can understand love," one of its canzones. Describing its author's friendship with the poet Guido Cavalcanti, and written in the 1290s, FTP, name this poetry collection about the author's love for Beatrice Portinari, written by Dante.
David Slavitt's translation of this book removed its explicating passages.
La {Vita Nuova} [or The {New Life} ]