Note dell'editore
Mark Musa's venerable edition of the Vita Nuova has been superseded by the edition with translation, notes, and introduction by Andrew Frisardi (Northwestern University Press, 2012): see http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13....

The Vita Nuova (1292-95) is regarded as Dante's first masterpiece. The thirty-one poems in this book are linked by a lyrical prose narrative celebrating and debating the subject of love. Composed reflecting upon Dante's meeting with Beatrice and the Lord of Love, it is a love story set to the task of confirming the new life this meeting inspired. With a critical introduction and explanatory notes, this is a translation of a supreme work which has been read variously as biography, religious allegory, and a meditation on poetry itself.