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Vita Nuova (New Life) is Dante's earliest major work. In Dante's Vita Nuova: A Translation and an Essay (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1973), translator and editor Mark Musa combines 31 poems with explanatory prose and treats Dante's love for Beatrice Portinari.

Reliable English translations of Dante's lyrics can be found in Dante's Lyric Poetry (2 volumes, translated and with commentary by Kenelm Foster and Patrick Boyde, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1967)

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