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Vita Nuova
by Dante Alighieri
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/missing
- Seller
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Salem, Oregon, United States
Item Price
£23.94£17.96
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About This Item
Milan: Rizzoli, 1952. hardcover. Very good/missing. Book is written completely in Italian. Red cloth covered binding with black titles on spine and front. Spine is slightly faded. Prior owner's name, and original bookstore price, on first blank page. Otherwise, pages are clean and unmaarked. Rizzoli Biblioteca Universale hardcover, Edizione Scolastica edition, March 1952. Rizzoli #401. 94 pages with a Nota di Cura by Lodovico Magugliani, and a Bibliography. Extensive footnotes. 12mo (4"" x 6.25"") Vita Nova is a text by Dante Alighieri published in 1294. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse. The poems present a frame story, recounting Dante's love of Beatrice from his first sight of her (when both were nine years old) all the way to his mourning after her death, and his determination to write of her ""that which has never been written of any woman.""
Synopsis
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xxiv]-xxv).
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- Bookseller
- Bujoldfan
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 06152300vitanuovavr
- Title
- Vita Nuova
- Author
- Dante Alighieri
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- missing
- Publisher
- Rizzoli
- Place of Publication
- Milan
- Date Published
- 1952
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- literature;
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Bujoldfan
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Bujoldfan
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Salem, Oregon
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....