vita

It is the one thing that has in it the elements of life, of a new life, Vita Nuova for me.

Moleto's prefatory letter to Vita dell' Ammiraglio, April 25, 1571.

In Vita dell' Ammiraglio the two letters are mixed together.

But according to the text as given in Vita dell' Ammiraglio, cap.

Of the youthful work, the Vita Nuova, we have already spoken.

We may freely accept the key supplied by the words of the Vita Nuova.

And the envoye of the Vita Nuova is the promise of the Commedia.

But perhaps her drudgery will kill her enthusiasm for 'vita nuova!'

Compare also the 'divisioni' of Dante's sonnets in the Vita Nuova.

While the other vitae give Egypt as the place of his banishment, vita iv.