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This celebration of the poet's passionate love for his immortal Beatrice weaves together rapturous sonnets and canzoni with prose commentaries and an autobiographical narrative. A predecessor to The Divine Comedy, La Vita Nuova (The New Life) also serves as an ever-relevant treatise on the art and technique of poetry.

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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。