Excerpt from The New Life The reading of the Divine: Commea'z'a should be preceded by that Of the Vita Nuova, which is its indispensable intro duction. In this immortal work, the greatest ever written by man on the eternal subject Of Love, and in which the Italian poet has dignified, exalted, and glorified Woman to the highest ideal of perfection, the reader will become acquainted with Beatrice - Dante's Beatrice - and will be able to dismiss with a smile the innumer able Beatrices evolved from the inner consciousness of Dante's commentators. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.