title: La Vita Nuova/The New Life
author: Dante Aligheri
description: Dante's <i>Vita nuova</i> reads like the Book of Genesis, as if written before literature, whilst truth yet existed. --Ralph Waldo Emmerson
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  The New Life
  
  
  La vita nuova
  
  
  The New Life
  
  
  La vita nuova
  
  
  A Dual-Language Book
  
  
  Dante Alighieri
  
  
  Edited and Translated by
  
  
  STANLEY APPELBAUM
  
  
  DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.
  
  
  Mineola, New York
  
  
  _Copyright_
  
  
  English translation, Introduction, and footnotes copyright © 2006 by Dover
  Publications, Inc.
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  _Bibliographical Note_
  
  
  This Dover edition, first published in 2006, is a complete republication of
  the Italian work originally published in Florence by Bartolomeo Sermatelli,
  together with a new English translation by Stanley Appelbaum, who also
  supplied the Introduction, the footnotes, and the Appendix of additional
  poems.
  
  
  _Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data_
  
  
  Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321.
  
  
  [Vita nuova. English & Italian]
  
  
  The new life = La vita nuova / Dante Alighieri ; edited and translated by
  Stanley Appelbaum.
  
  
  p. cm. — (Dual-language book)
  
  
  “A complete republication of the Italian work originally publishe