Recepient, 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship Dante s Vita Nova (circa 1292 1295) depicts the joys and sorrows, the discoveries and conflicts of Dante s early love for Beatrice who would achieve later and even greater fame in Commedia starting with his first sighting of her and culminating in his prevision of Beatrice among the beatified in heaven. Award-winning translator and poet Andrew Frisardi channels the vigor and nuance of Dante s first masterpiece for a modern audience.
The little book, as Dante calls it, consists of thirty-one lyric poems mostly sonnets embedded in...
Recepient, 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship Dante s Vita Nova (circa 1292 1295) depicts the joys and sorrows, the discoveries and conflicts of...