![]() ![]() The collection and its style fit in with the movement called dolce stil novo. Dante used each prosimetrum as a means for combining poems written over periods of roughly ten years- La Vita Nuova contains his works from before 1283 to roughly 1293. ![]() The collection is a prosimetrum, a piece containing both verse and prose, in the vein of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy. Referred to by Dante as his libello, or "little book," La Vita Nuova is the first of two collections of verse written by Dante in his life. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse. La Vita Nuova ( pronounced Italian for "The New Life") or Vita Nova (Latin title) is a text by Dante Alighieri published in 1294. Frontispiece of the English version ( The New Life, D. ![]()
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