Items matching christmas taken from La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

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christmas: the supposed anniversary of the birth of Jesus, although since there were baby lambs it was more likely at Easter. Many of these christmas pictures would make good xmas clip-art or would be good on the front of a christmas card.

Synonyms: xmas, noel

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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.

Bottom border with angel

La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Bottom deorative element from page 122, an angel playing the violin on the left, with vine leaves on the bottom. The angel is barefoot and winged.

Keywords: angels, borders, ornaments, music, musical instruments, christmas, romance, colour

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Added: 2009-01-31

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115. Love Hath So Long Possessed Me

La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Full page image showing the sonnet and also the decoration. I have scanned the angel separately, as the next image. Love hath so long possess’d me for his own And made his lordship so familiar That he [...]

Keywords: page images, colour, angels, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-11-14

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116. Zodiac Wheel

La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The zodiac wheel together with the four quarters. It is supported by two angels and the text: “Quomodo sedet sola civitas plena populo! Facta est quasi vidua domina gentium!” (p. 116) That is from th [...]

Keywords: colour, christmas, zodiac, astrology, angels

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Added: 2005-11-16

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37.—Writing My Master’s Words (detail)

La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The central part of the picture on page 37 showing the mediaeval scholar writing a manuscript at his desk with his quill pen (a feather trimmed, slitted and used for writing) in his hand.

Keywords: scholars, pictures of books, candles, mediaeval, christmas

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Added: 2005-12-20

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37.—Writing My Master’s Words

La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The poet sits at a writing desk let by a candle. The image is printed in black and gold. “I resolved that I would make a ditty, before I left my chamber, according to the words my master had spoken.” [...]

Keywords: scholars, pictures of books, candles, colour, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-12-20

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Angel from page 115

La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The angel from page 115. The angel carries a music book (I think, or possibly a harp), and kneels with hands clasped as if in prayer. He wears a white robe and has golden wings. I cut out this detail [...]

Keywords: angels, christmas, colour, religion

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Added: 2005-11-14

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Zodiac wheel from page 116

La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

I thought that this circlular arangement of the signs of the zodiac might look good on the front of a greetings card or calendar, or in a scrapbook (or maybe I just don’t understand scrapbooking?) so [...]

Keywords: zodiac, christmas, astrology, astrology, planets, colour

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Added: 2005-11-16

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Angel playing the harp, attended by deer

La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

A hind, a stag, a pair of rabbits and two birds are listening to this winged angel playing the harp, in a decorative pice full of vine-leaves. The angel is naked except for a loin-cloth and is barefo [...]

Keywords: angels, animals, ornaments, decorations, bare feet, wallpaper, backgrounds, christmas, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2008-09-14

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Zodiac with evangelists from p. 120

La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

This lady [Beatrice] was accompanied by the number nine to the end that men might clearly perceive her to be a nine, that is, a miracle, whose only root is the Holy Trinity.” (p. 119) Beatrice is depi [...]

Keywords: zodiac, christmas, astrology, planets, religion, saints, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-26

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Untitled image, Mediaeval tower

La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Untitled image; a man (the protagonist) sits outside a mediæval castle tower. He wears red boots and a long robe, a medieval scholar’s dress perhaps, and in the background a lady spares him a glance. [...]

Keywords: towers, people, scholars, christmas

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Added: 2006-04-21

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