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Alighieri Dante
La Vita Nuova (The New Life)

I. Introduction

II. The first meeting with Beatrice

III. Years later she greets him

IV. The effects of Love on him

V. The screen lady

VI. He composes the serventese of the sixty ladies

VII. The screen lady’s departure

VIII. Dante’s poem on the death of Beatrice’s companion

IX. Dante’s journey: the new screen lady

X. Beatrice refuses to greet him

XI. The effects on him of her greeting

XII. He dreams of the young man dressed in white

XIII. The war of conflicting thoughts

XIV. Dante faints at the marriage scene

XV. The reason why he continues to try and see her

XVI. His state on being in love

XVII He ceases to address her in verse

XVIII. He takes praise of Beatrice as his new theme

XIX. He writes a first canzone in praise of Beatrice

XX. He is requested to say what Love is

XXI. How Beatrice wakens Love

XXII. The death of Beatrice’s father

XXIII. Dante’s vision of Beatrice’s death

XXIV. His sonetto to Guido Cavalcanti

XXV. His justification of his personification of Love

XXVI. His further praise of Beatrice

XXVII. Her effect on Dante

XXVIII. What he will say concerning the death of Beatrice

XXIX. The number nine

XXX. His letter to the Rulers

XXXI. His canzone mourning Beatrice

XXXII. His poem for one of Beatrice’s brothers

XXXIII. He also writes two stanzas of a canzone for him

XXXIV. A year later Dante draws the figures of Angels

XXXV. The lady at the window

XXXVI. His further poem to the lady at the window.

XXXVII. He is concerned at his own behaviour

XXXVIII. The struggle of the heart and the soul

XXXIX. His vision of Beatrice in glory

XL. His poem addressing the pilgrims travelling to Rome

XLI. His poem for the two gentle ladies

XLII. The final vision

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