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The ParNov project analyses the lexicon of Dante Alighieri’s lyrical poetry, with special focus on the Vita Nova and his other pre-exile rhymes in a period spanning the last three decades of the thirteenth century. The comprehensive nature of Dante’s complex output highlights the evolution of his lyrical poetry from his early Guittonian style to his later Stilnovistic work. This development is exemplified in narrative form in the Vita Nova, his signature work of the period, written between 1290 and 1295.
– In the photo, a folio of manuscript CCCCXLV (288) at the Biblioteca Capitolare in Verona –