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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

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-01-31

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

115. Love Hath So Long Possessed Me

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

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

123.—Beatrice is gone up into high heaven

123.—Beatrice is gone up into high heaven

La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

“Beatrice is gone up into high heaven, The kingdom where the angels are at peace; And lives with them; and to her friends is dead. Not by the frost of winter was she driven Away, like others; nor by s [...]

Keywords: colour, page images

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-02-01

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

116. Zodiac Wheel

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-11-16

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

37.—Writing My Master’s Words

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

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Angel from page 115

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-11-14

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Zodiac wheel from page 116

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-11-16

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Zodiac wheel with woman (detail)

Zodiac wheel with woman (detail)

La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The central part of the illustration of the Zodiac wheel with the Evangelist symbols.

I have also made separate images for Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

Keywords: people, women, zodiac, astrology, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2009-10-26

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Angel playing the harp, attended by deer

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

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

103. Sonnet Introduction Page

103. Sonnet Introduction Page

La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

Full page image. In the decoration, the angel, presumably representing love, is beckoning towards the writer. The text reads as follows: This sonnet has many parts: whereof the first tells how I felt [...]

Keywords: colour, page images, angels

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Added: 2005-11-14

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Sonnet Introduction Border

Sonnet Introduction Border

La Vita Nuova (The New Life) (1910)

The border and decoration from page 103. An angel, wearing a toga, but with bare feet and bare-legged, beckons to the writer, depicted as a monk with a robe and medieval pointed shoes. I included fai [...]

Keywords: monks, angels, robes, borders, colour

Places shown: none

Added: 2005-11-14

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested

Zodiac with evangelists from p. 120

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

Image status: public domain, hence royalty-free stock image; usage credit requested