但丁在《新生》中抒发了自己对贝特丽丝的一片纯真的爱恋之心后，继而将他的恋人描绘成追求天国真理的化身，她的灵魂飞向天空，得到了新生。即便到了晚年，但丁对贝特丽丝的那份执着依然难以释怀，他在《神曲》中，又把贝特丽丝描绘成集真善美于一身、引导他进入天堂的女神，以此来寄托他对贝特丽丝的美好情感。爱情催生了《新生》，《新生》又为他晚年创作《神曲》作了情感和素材的准备。

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The New Life is the masterpiece of Dante's youth, an account of his love for Beatrice, the girl who was to become his lifelong muse, and of her tragic early death. An allegory of the soul's crisis and growth, combining prose and poetry, narrative and meditation, dreams and songs and prayers, this work of crystalline beauty and fascinating complexity has long taken its place as one of the supreme revelations in the literature of love.

The New Life is published here in the beautiful translation by the English poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, an inspired poetic re-creation comparable to Edward Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and a classic in its own right.

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Hesperus Press, as suggested by their Latin motto, Et remotissima prope, is dedicated to bringing near what is far—far both in space and time. Works by illustrious authors, often unjustly neglected or simply little known in the English–speaking world, are made accessible through a completely fresh editorial approach and new translations. Through these short classic works, which feature forewords by leading contemporary authors, the modern reader will be introduced to the greatest writers of Europe and America. An elegantly designed series of genuine rediscoveries. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.