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La vita nuova is a 1902 cantata based on the text by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. Vladimir Martynov's 2003 opera Vita Nuova premiered in the U.S. on February 28, 2009 at the Alice Tully Hall, performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vladimir Jurowski.
The Vita nuova understands this experience in light of the Gospels and, in its turn, illuminates how the Gospels, through literary and lyrical means, become a revelation of the divinity of Jesus. Keywords
May 28, 2007 · The Vita nuova gives the impression that Dante was unwilling to allow the poems to stand on their own but strove, through his prose commentary, to give them the sort of weight they lacked in their own right.
- Robert Pogue Harrison
- 1993
Jun 20, 2017 · Dante fell deeply in love with a woman named Beatrice, and he wrote numerous poems to express his love for her, which he collected years later in his book Vita Nuova (New Life) along with some wonderful passages explaining his thoughts on composing each poem.
It has been claimed that there are three forms of time in the story: individual time, cosmic time, and calendar time, while the end of the narrative moves out of time altogether, into eternity: “The Vita nuova narrator stakes out the boundaries of his own narrative by marking the story’s beginning in reference to cosmic time and the story ...
- Andrew Frisardi
- 2012
Oct 30, 2014 · Vita Nuova, or new life, chronicles Dante’s first sight of Beatrice, his occasional casual meetings with her, his attempt to deflect his interest in her by pretending his poetry was for another woman, her disgust at his perceived behaviour, the death of her father, Dante’s own illness and then, tragically, the death of the woman who had ...
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Overview. This lecture is devoted to the Vita nuova, Dante’s autobiographical account of his “double apprenticeship” in poetry and love. The poet’s love for Beatrice is explored as the catalyst for his search for a new poetic voice. Medieval theories of love and the diverse poetics they inspired are discussed in contrast.
