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Dante's Vita Nuova

By: Dante Alighieri
Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
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In this new edition Musa views Dante's intention as one of cruel and comic commentary on the shallowness and self-pity of his protagonist, who only occasionally glimpses the true nature of love.

"...the explication de texte which accompanies [Musa's] translation is instructively novel, always admirable..." his present work offers English listeners a lengthy appraisal which should figure in future scholarly discussions." (Choice)

©1973 Indiana University Press (P)2013 Redwood Audiobooks Classics Literary History & Criticism
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I didn’t expect to see this on audiobook. I enjoyed the translation and the reading is good. Perhaps Dante’s readers were less experienced readers than we are today, but his explanations of the divisions of each poem seem, at times, a bit obvious. And like Petrarch, his obsessive idealisation of the beloved can become tedious. But, nevertheless, this text is worth a listen.

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