“Perhaps this lovely little Liveright edition deserves to become the new standard.” Steve Donoghue, Open Letters Review

Dantes first masterpiece in an enticing new translation by one of our most beloved teachers of Italian literature and culture.

Part love story, part instruction manual, part spiritual journey, Dantes little book, the Vita Nuova, has had a profound and far-reaching influence on global culture and is considered by many to be the perfect expression of the medieval ideal of courtly love, as well as an essential precursor to Dantes sublime poetic apotheosis, the Divine Comedy.

Now Joseph Luzzi, celebrated author of books about Italian literature and culture and a lifelong lover and teacher of Dantes poetry, gives us a version of the Vita Nuova that is fresh, contemporary, and approachableas vital and vivid as Dantes original Tuscan dialectrendered in a voice that will entice a new generation of readers to swoon over one of the most heartbreaking stories of unfulfilled love in all of world literature.