Project Gutenberg 2009-02-09 Public domain in the USA. 61 Dante Alighieri 1265 1321 Alighieri, Dante Suchtelen, Nico van 1878 1949 Suchtelen, Nicolaas Johannes van Van Suchtelen, Nico Het Nieuwe Leven (La Vita Nuova) Reading ease score: 60.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net/ "Het Nieuwe Leven (La Vita Nuova)" by Dante Alighieri is a lyrical work reflecting on love, written in the 14th century. This text intricately blends poetry and prose to explore Dante's youthful love for Beatrice, highlighting themes of love, loss, and spiritual awakening. Through passionate verses, Dante presents Beatrice not only as his beloved but also as a symbol of divine beauty and virtue. The opening of "Het Nieuwe Leven" introduces readers to a thoughtful meditation on the nature of love and artistry. It discusses the dichotomy between the personal and the idealized in Dante’s writing, setting the stage for a profound exploration of emotional depth and artistic expression. The narrative begins with the significance of an encounter with Beatrice, illustrating how this event transforms Dante's understanding of love and inspires his poetry. This early passage hints at the tension between the mundane reality of life and the lofty ideals that art seeks to capture, foreshadowing the journey of love and spiritual revelation that unfolds throughout the work. (This is an automatically generated summary.) nl Italian literature -- Translations into Dutch PQ Text Browsing: Language & Communication Browsing: Literature 413069 409924 2024-10-12T07:06:39.237408 2023-09-12T10:13:45.891492 text/html text/html 407312 2021-01-04T17:46:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 261284 2021-01-04T17:46:50 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 364771 2024-10-12T07:06:52.034344 application/epub+zip 366193 2024-10-12T07:06:44.101359 application/epub+zip 202496 2024-10-12T07:06:42.152388 application/epub+zip 563717 2024-10-12T07:06:57.142798 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 567519 2024-10-12T07:06:50.437356 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 387784 2022-09-13T06:33:09.352073 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 294389 294298 2024-10-12T07:06:37.486396 2023-09-12T10:13:44.418470 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 293570 2021-01-04T17:46:50 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 108310 2021-01-04T17:46:50 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 20041 2024-10-12T07:06:57.295781 application/rdf+xml 13133 2024-10-12T07:06:42.752360 image/jpeg 3080 2024-10-12T07:06:42.456365 image/jpeg 346589 2024-10-12T07:06:39.276426 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog it.wikipedia en.wikipedia