Books by Dante Alighieri
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review 1: Sabía bastante de lo que habían sido los sentimientos de Dante por su amada Beatriz, pero verlos plasmados por su propia mano ha resultado ser mucho más romántico, y la facción de poeta del autor me ha gustado mucho. La vita nuova puede no tener el poder de La Divina Comedia, per...
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review 1: This is a weird book of poetry that I read as part of my online class on the Inferno. The conceit here is that Dante presents the poems while simultaneously providing a "meta" narrative that explains when and why he wrote each poem, as well as descriptions about what each one mea...
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review 1: Much Like Pilgrim's Progress, I viewed this as pure religious allegory. Dante seeks eternal love in Heaven and rejects the base rewards of this world. Beatrice was simply the vehicle which brought him to this realization. He didn't even "know" her in any sense of the word. He...
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review 1: "فيتا نووفا" أو الحياة الجديدة : كما قال دانتي واسمه كتيب وصف فيه حبه لبياتريشي وهناك من يقول إنه ليس اسمها الحقيقي وإنما اسم تخفى وراءه دانتي حتى لا يسبب لها الحرج لأن كلاهما كان متزوج.ارجح لإن الأحداث كانت في العصور الوسطى وما للكنيسة من أراء حول ذلك وأيضا كما يقول دانتي بإنها ...
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review 1: Having never read anything Dante wrote before, I was unsure of what I was getting myself into. Oddly enough, an episode of Star Trek: Voyager brought me to La Vita Nuova. The actual poetry and prose in this piece are beautiful and filled with emotion. I lost focus, though, whe...