![]() Binding descriptionĬloth realized by Vittorio Ferrari based on Vittorio Grassi's drawings. In 1921, year of the sixth centenary of Dante Alighieri’s death, three artists worked together to create what we can consider today a real and perhaps unique miniated codex of the XXth century: La Vita Nuova illustrated with forty original watercolours by Vittorio Grassi, entirely hand written by the calligrapher Enrico Brignoli and decorated in every page by Nestore Leoni’s decorations. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a. ![]() In the past "La Vita Nuova" has inspired many writers and artists even if, in six centuries since its creation, an edition entirely decorated with full colour illustrations has been printed only once. La Vita Nuova or Vita Nova (Latin title) is a text by Dante Alighieri published in 1294. share which I myself took in the Vita Nuova trans- lation. ![]() The story of his love for Beatrice, starting from their first encounter when she is only nine years old, is described by Dante according to pure “Stilnovo” advices and offers a poetical autobiography, which documents young Dante’s adhesion to “Stilnovo” ideals and spiritual evolution. GABRIEL ROSSETTI, being the son of an Italian who was greatly im. ![]() If The Comedy represents the most complicated, voluminous and famous of Dante’s works, La Vita Nuova is his more sublime poetic composition. Illustrated with paintings by Dante Gabriele Rossetti, publishers parchment binding, gold title on the front. ![]()
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