From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: December 22, 1997| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1997 Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Besides offering an accurate, admirably readable Italian text and facing English translation of Dante's Vita Nuova, this new volume makes bold claims about Dante's text. It does so in more than 240 pages of introduction, topical index, glossary and concordance, appendices on textual history, and bibliography. In addition to these valuable aids, the editors promise a second volume of line-by-line commentary that the University of Notre Dame Press will publish in the near future. Until then we have this substantial contribution that raises important questions about the letter and the ...