La "Vita Nuova" (The New Life) or "Vita Nova" (Latin title) is a text by Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) 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.
La "Vita Nuova" contains 42 brief chapters with commentaries on 25 sonnets, one ballata, and four canzoni; one canzone is left unfinished, interrupted by the death of Beatrice Portinari, Dante's lifelong love.
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