Excerpt from The Vita Nuova of Dante: Translated With an Introduction and Notes Eloved, whose life is with mine own entwined, In whom, while yet thou wert my dream, I viewed, Warm with the life of breathing womanhood, What Shakespeare's visionary eye divined Pure Imogen, high-hearted Rosalind, Kindling with sunshine all the dusk greenwood; Or, changing with the poet's changing mood, Juliet, and Constance of the queenly mind I give this book to thee, whose daily life With that full pulse of noblest feeling glows, Which lent its spell to thy so potent art To thee, whose every act, my own true wife, The grace serene and heavenward spirit shows, That rooted Beatrice in Dante's heart. 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.