{"product_id":"the-new-life-isbn-9781681370514","title":"The New Life","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe New Life\u003c\/i\u003e is the masterpiece of Dante’s youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul’s crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams and songs and prayers, \u003ci\u003eThe New Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a work of crystalline beauty and fascinating complexity that has long taken its place as one of the supreme revelations in the literature of love.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Life\u003c\/i\u003e is published here in the beautiful translation by the English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, an inspired poetic re-creation comparable to Edward Fitzgerald’s \u003ci\u003eRubaiyat of Omar Khayyam\u003c\/i\u003e and a classic in its own right. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis English-only edition does not include the poems in their original language.“Rossetti made a remarkable translation of the \u003ci\u003eVita Nuova\u003c\/i\u003e, in some places improving (or at least enriching) the original. He was indubitably the man ‘sent,’ or ‘chosen,’ for that particular job.” —Ezra Pound\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[Rossetti’s translation is] the fruit of countless hours of brooding over Italian painting, Italian images, Italian sounds and thoughts.” —John Wain\u003cb\u003eDante Alighieri\u003c\/b\u003e (1265–1321) was born into a noble  family in Florence. He fought as a cavalryman, served in a variety of  civic and diplomatic positions, and in 1300 attained a preeminent place  in the administration of his native city. Florence was at the time  caught in a bitter struggle between the Guelphs and the Ghibellines—as  well as between contending factions within those political parties—and  in 1301, having been sent on an embassy to the Pope in Rome, Dante  learned that his enemies had come to power. He was never to see Florence  again, and was later banished from the city and sentenced to death.  After years of a wandering and uncertain life, Dante finally settled in  Ravenna in 1318. Celebrated as a poet from his youth, when he was among  those whose writings in Italian were applauded for their “sweet new  style,” Dante was also an influential literary and political theorist.  His most famous works are \u003ci\u003eThe New Life\u003c\/i\u003e (circa 1293); \u003ci\u003eDe vulgari eloquentia\u003c\/i\u003e (circa 1304–7), a defense of the use of the vernacular in literature; and his epic vision of the afterlife, \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e, which he began in 1307 and finished shortly before his death.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDante Gabriel Rossetti\u003c\/b\u003e (1828–82), the son of an exiled Italian scholar and revolutionary,  studied painting at the Royal Academy of Arts and was one of the  founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Though he is best  known as a painter, Rossetti was also a poet, and his poems, along with  his translations of Dante and François Villon, made a lasting impression  on such writers as Oscar Wilde, Walter Pater, and Ezra Pound. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Palmer\u003c\/b\u003e was born in New York City in 1943 and has lived in San Francisco since  1969. He has published ten collections of poetry and has taught at  universities in the United States and Europe. He has worked extensively  with contemporary dance for twenty-five years and has collaborated with  numerous visual artists and composers. His most recent collections are \u003ci\u003eAt Passages\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003eThe Lion Bridge: Selected Poems 1972–1995\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), \u003ci\u003eThe Promises of Glass \u003c\/i\u003e(2000), and \u003ci\u003eCodes Appearing: Poems 1979–1988\u003c\/i\u003e (2001).","brand":"NYRB Poets","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300996501733,"sku":"NP9781681370514","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681370514.jpg?v=1767740673","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-new-life-isbn-9781681370514","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}