There have been done several tries to define the "genre" of Dante's Vita nova. Yet, the "booklet"... more There have been done several tries to define the "genre" of Dante's Vita nova. Yet, the "booklet" resists to the possibility to be precisely defined. Perhaps, its hybrid characteristic may be showed through the consideration of the form of autobiography. The relation between the self-writing (the construction of a work through the re-utilization and re-adaptation of author's previous writings), the diverse communicative forms that contribute to the making of the Vita nova, and the relation that this work establishes with the working progress of all Dante's work. This article inquires the textual and extra-textual role that the writing of the self assumes in Vita Nova. How the "booklet" reacts to the previous forms of lyrical poetry (texts and macro-texts of Romance lyrical poetry) and how Vita nova influences Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta -both in terms of continuity and contrast with the "booklet".
There have been done several tries to define the "genre" of Dante's Vita nova. Yet, the "booklet"... more There have been done several tries to define the "genre" of Dante's Vita nova. Yet, the "booklet" resists to the possibility to be precisely defined. Perhaps, its hybrid characteristic may be showed through the consideration of the form of autobiography. The relation between the self-writing (the construction of a work through the re-utilization and re-adaptation of author's previous writings), the diverse communicative forms that contribute to the making of the Vita nova, and the relation that this work establishes with the working progress of all Dante's work. This article inquires the textual and extra-textual role that the writing of the self assumes in Vita Nova. How the "booklet" reacts to the previous forms of lyrical poetry (texts and macro-texts of Romance lyrical poetry) and how Vita nova influences Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta -both in terms of continuity and contrast with the "booklet".
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