![]() But connected as it is with Dante’s life,-the first of that series of works in which truth, intensity, and tenderness of feeling are displayed as in the writings of no other man,-its interest no longer arises merely from itself and from its place in literature, but becomes indissolubly united with that which belongs by every claim to the “ Divina Commedia” and to the life of Dante. The sentiment of the “ Vita Nuova” is separated by the wide gulf that lies between simplicity and affectation from the sentimentality of Petrarch’s sonnets. ![]() It would be of interest, as contrasted with the later growth of the sentimental element in literature, which speedily exhibits the influence of factitious feeling, of self-conscious effort, and of ambitions display. ![]() WERE the author of the “ Vita Nuova” unknown, its story of youth and love would still possess a charm, as standing in the dawn of modern literature,- the first book in which modern sentiment finds free expression. ![]()
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