The New Life of Dante - Charles Norton - 1899
$125.00
The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante Alighieri’s youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul’s crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams and songs and prayers, this work of crystalline beauty and fascinating complexity has long taken its place as one of the supreme revelations in the literature of love. This 1899 edition seems to expand upon the 1892 Cambridge edition. Very clean copy with light wear.
8vo hardcover, green cloth over boards. slight chipping at head and toe of spine. Prebious owner's name in pen on ffep. No other interior marks/foxing. Some wear on back board, otherwise a ver nice copy. Binding is sound.
The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante Alighieri’s youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul’s crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams and songs and prayers, this work of crystalline beauty and fascinating complexity has long taken its place as one of the supreme revelations in the literature of love. This 1899 edition seems to expand upon the 1892 Cambridge edition. Very clean copy with light wear.
8vo hardcover, green cloth over boards. slight chipping at head and toe of spine. Prebious owner's name in pen on ffep. No other interior marks/foxing. Some wear on back board, otherwise a ver nice copy. Binding is sound.
The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante Alighieri’s youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul’s crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams and songs and prayers, this work of crystalline beauty and fascinating complexity has long taken its place as one of the supreme revelations in the literature of love. This 1899 edition seems to expand upon the 1892 Cambridge edition. Very clean copy with light wear.
8vo hardcover, green cloth over boards. slight chipping at head and toe of spine. Prebious owner's name in pen on ffep. No other interior marks/foxing. Some wear on back board, otherwise a ver nice copy. Binding is sound.