...Dario Del Puppo Abstract This article considers the importance of material philological features of the early manuscripts of Dante’s Vita nova for the work’s critical reception. Over the centuries, editors (most notably Giovanni Boccaccio) have recast textual meaning in the work mainly...

...Jelena Todorović Abstract This article focuses on the nineteenth-century print circulation of Dante’s Vita Nova (1292–94) and especially on the response in print media to the tension between new critical approaches to text editing, on the one hand, and editors’ dependence on the text’s complex...

... as he had envisaged its material execution. A young Dante, composing the Vita Nova , was so keenly aware of the scribal norms of his day, and of its potential defects, that he inserted explicit transcriptional instructions for the Vita Nova into the text so that members of his small circle could copy...

... se non tutte, almeno la loro sentenzia. (Chapter 1) [In that part of the book of my memory before which little could be read, a rubric is found which says Incipit vita nova [Here begins the new life.] Under this rubric, I find written words which it is my intention to transcribe into this little book...

... a beatitudo huius vitae still valid for a Christian Eden, the poet appeals to the text of Ovid’s Fasti through which in many occurrences he is building a harmonic image of human living that, in the shadow of forebears’ sin, only a future intervention of Grace will dispose for Dante’s words. Through exact...

... ( dantesources.dantenetwork.it/ ), created in collaboration with ISTI-CNR, displays in the form of graphs and spreadsheets the list and distribution of the texts, authors, and sets of texts cited by Dante in his works (currently available: Vita Nova , Monarchia , Convivio , and De vulgari eloquentia ). DanteSources...

... on Perception and Communication, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, translated as Scene di vita quotidiana nelrItalia moderna, Editori Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1988; Joseph Courtes, Le conte populaire: poetique e myth0 logie, Paris, PUF, 1986, translated as La fiaba: poetica e mitologia, a cura di Alessandro...

... L'reuvre la plus retentissante illustrant une poetique du nombre est sans doute celIe de Dante qui nous informe dans la Vita Nova de Ia composition du sonnet Ne Ii occhi porta dans Ie vingt-et-unieme chapitre de son ouvrage trois fois divise par trois. II est remarquable que Ie premier mot du second...