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![[picture: Front Cover from La Vita Nuova]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rossetti-Dante-LaVitaNuova/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-397x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover from La Vita Nuova]")
Pictures and page images from La Vita Nuova (The New Life) by Dante Alighieri, translated by Gabriel Rossetti and illustrated by Evelyn Paul, with music by Alfred Mercer.
The book is undated, but it appears to have been produced some time between 1897 and 1920. Most booksellers say about 1910, so that is what I have used.
Gabriel Rossetti was a Pre-Raphaelite painter and a Romantic writer and poet.
The full text of this translation is online at The Rosetti Archive, although it isn’t exactly the same edition.
I have scanned some complete pages, some details, and also some borders.
There is an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for Charles Dante Gabriel Rossetti and another for Dante Alighieri.
Evelyn Paul died in 1945, less than 70 years ago, but this book was published jointly in the UK and the US, before 1923, and hence is out of copyright, so I have marked the images as public domain.
Title: La Vita Nuova (The New Life)
City: London, New York
Date: 1910
Total items: 33
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Angel from page 115]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rossetti-Dante-LaVitaNuova/wm/big/115-Love-Hath-So-Long-Possessed-Me-For-His-Own-detail-angel-287x200.jpg "[picture: Angel from page 115]")
![[picture: Untitled image, Mediaeval tower]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rossetti-Dante-LaVitaNuova/wm/big/075-I-think-only-of-her-148x200.jpg "[picture: Untitled image, Mediaeval tower]")
Untitled image, Mediaeval tower
Untitled image; a man (the protagonist) sits outside a mediæval castle tower. He wears red boots and a long robe, a medieval scholar’s [more...] [$]
![[picture: 123.---Beatrice is gone up into high heaven]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rossetti-Dante-LaVitaNuova/wm/big/123-Beatrice-is-gone-up-into-high-heaven-132x200.jpg "[picture: 123.---Beatrice is gone up into high heaven]")
123.—Beatrice is gone up into high heaven
“Beatrice is gone up into high heaven,
The kingdom where the angels are at peace;
And lives with them; and to her friends is dead.
Not by the frost of winter was she driven
Away, like others; nor by summer-heats;
But through a perfect gentleness, instead.
For from the lamp of her meek lowlihead
Such an exceeding glory went up hence
That it woke wonder in the Eternal Sire,
Until a sweet desire
Entererd Him for that lovely excellence,
So that He bade her to Himself aspire:
counting this weary and most evil place
Unworthy of a thing so full of grace. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Symbol of St. Luke the Evangelist]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rossetti-Dante-LaVitaNuova/wm/big/120-detail-luke-the-evangelist-ox-q85-200x200.jpg "[picture: Symbol of St. Luke the Evangelist]")
Symbol of St. Luke the Evangelist
Saint Luke is traditionally represented (drawn) as an ox, often, (as here) with wings. He has a scroll to represent the Gospel he wrote. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Two cherubs play flute and violin]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rossetti-Dante-LaVitaNuova/wm/big/051-serving-at-a-banquet-detail-two-cherubs-q90-319x200.jpg "[picture: Two cherubs play flute and violin]")
Two cherubs play flute and violin
A detail from Fig. 51, two winged cherubs sit playing musical instruments, one a twin pipe and the other a bowed instrument like an early violin. [more...] [$]
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