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![[picture: Front Cover from La Vita Nuova]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rossetti-Dante-LaVitaNuova/tn/000-Front-Cover-q75-397x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover from La Vita Nuova]")
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, so I have marked the images as public domain.
Title: La Vita Nuova (The New Life)
City: London, New York
Date: 1910
Total items: 33
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: 37.---Writing My Master's Words (detail)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rossetti-Dante-LaVitaNuova/wm/big/037-Writing-my-masters-words-scholar-q75-151x200.jpg "[picture: 37.---Writing My Master's Words (detail)]")
37.—Writing My Master’s Words (detail)
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. [more...] [$]
![[picture: 115. Love Hath So Long Possessed Me]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rossetti-Dante-LaVitaNuova/wm/big/115-Love-Hath-So-Long-Possessed-Me-For-His-Own-154x200.jpg "[picture: 115. Love Hath So Long Possessed Me]")
115. Love Hath So Long Possessed Me
Full page image showing the sonnet and also the decoration. I have scanned the angel separately, as the next image. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Symbol of St. Mark the Evangelist]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rossetti-Dante-LaVitaNuova/wm/big/120-detail-mark-the-evangelist-lion-q85-200x200.jpg "[picture: Symbol of St. Mark the Evangelist]")
Symbol of St. Mark the Evangelist
Saint Mark is traditionally depicted (shown) as a lion, sometimes with angel wings. In the background is a scroll, representing the Gospel he wrote. [more...] [$]
![[picture: Zodiac wheel from page 116]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rossetti-Dante-LaVitaNuova/wm/big/116-zodiac-wheel-just-the-wheel-q75-203x200.jpg "[picture: Zodiac wheel from page 116]")
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, so I have marked the images as public domain.
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![[picture: 103. Sonnet Introduction Page]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Rossetti-Dante-LaVitaNuova/wm/big/103-La-Vita-Nuova-q75-136x200.jpg "[picture: 103. Sonnet Introduction Page]")
