{"id":3294,"date":"2021-09-10T01:46:02","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T06:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/?page_id=3294"},"modified":"2026-07-06T19:23:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T00:23:46","slug":"vn","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/vn\/","title":{"rendered":"VN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"four columns bookCover\">\n<h1><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/fr\/academic\/subjects\/literature\/european-literature\/dantes-vita-nuova-and-new-testament-hermeneutics-and-poetics-revelation?format=HB\"><em><span class=\"subTitle\">Dante&#8217;s Vita Nuova and the New Testament: Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation<\/span><\/em>\u00a0<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=etfyXbQ93z8\">Revolution in Poetic Language: Dante\u2019s Use of the Vernacular as Vehicle for Theological Revelation (youtube.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i9.ytimg.com\/vi_webp\/etfyXbQ93z8\/mq3.webp?sqp=CJChp7EG-oaymwEmCMACELQB8quKqQMa8AEB-AGoA4AC8AGKAgwIABABGFkgYChlMA8=&amp;rs=AOn4CLDkNRIb7lAXh_gtyfb4Wz6v1uF2-g\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Revolution in Poetic Language: Dante\u2019s Use of the Vernacular as Vehicle for Theological Revelation\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/etfyXbQ93z8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9UETh-T8M_s&amp;t=11s\">William Franke, &#8220;Dante\u2019s New Life, or How Phenomenological Reduction Enables Theological Revelation&#8221; (youtube.com)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i9.ytimg.com\/vi\/9UETh-T8M_s\/mqdefault.jpg?sqp=CMSxp7EG-oaymwEmCMACELQB8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-CYAC0AWKAgwIABABGHIgUig7MA8=&amp;rs=AOn4CLAe1VmK-Yp_cqNH9-n6QGeYkO_nug\" alt=\"Video-Thumbnail: William Franke, &quot;Dante\u2019s New Life, or How Phenomenological Reduction Enables Theological Revelation&quot;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"William Franke, &quot;Dante\u2019s New Life, or How Phenomenological Reduction Enables Theological Revelation&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9UETh-T8M_s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/vn\/vn-cover-image\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3306\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3306\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2021\/09\/VN-Cover-Image-443x650.jpg\" alt=\"VN Cover Image\" width=\"443\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2021\/09\/VN-Cover-Image-443x650.jpg 443w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2021\/09\/VN-Cover-Image-204x300.jpg 204w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2021\/09\/VN-Cover-Image-768x1128.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs if called forth on cue by our time and its crises, Dante demonstrates how theology can be crucial to the continuing intelligibility and viability of the humanities. Dante\u2019s translation of theological doctrine into poetic vision is key to our being able to continue to receive the saving graces of religion and humanities alike in our current twice-over secularized culture and technologized world. Dante is among our greatest guides to how we can still benefit from our human wisdom traditions and their spiritual vision. We can and need to be galvanized by these resources in their broader potential for shedding a light of truth open to infinity in this unprecedentedly perilous situation for human culture susceptible to collapsing and succumbing to a \u201cpost-truth\u201d condition.\u201d\u00a0 \u00a0&#8211;from Prologue<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iih-hermeneutics.org\/hermes-award\">AWARD WINNER<\/a><a style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/vn\/jpeg-vn-flyer\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3304\">:\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iih-hermeneutics.org\/hermes-award\">Hermes Award: Book of the Year in Phenomenological Hermeneutics,\u00a0<em>Agora Hermeneutica<\/em>, The International Institute for Hermeneutics (IIH), 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-family: Roboto, sans-serif;font-size: 1rem\" href=\"http:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/vn\/jpeg-vn-flyer\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3304\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"12359\" height=\"15994\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3304\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2021\/09\/jpeg-VN-flyer.jpg\" alt=\"jpeg VN flyer\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2021\/09\/jpeg-VN-flyer.jpg 12359w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2021\/09\/jpeg-VN-flyer-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2021\/09\/jpeg-VN-flyer-768x994.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2021\/09\/jpeg-VN-flyer-502x650.jpg 502w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 12359px) 100vw, 12359px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/fr\/academic\/subjects\/literature\/european-literature\/divine-vision-dantes-paradiso-metaphysics-representation?format=HB&amp;isbn=9781316517024\">Publishers Website (Cambridge University Press)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;This book, which includes the original text and a new, spirited English translation of it, proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the presence of the Christian New Testament on young Dante&#8217;s mind when he wrote the Vita nuova is not just occasional \u2013 it is indeed part of Dante&#8217;s determined effort to write a kind of &#8216;sacred story&#8217; long before he conceived the &#8216;sacred poem&#8217; \u2013 the Divine Comedy. William Butler Yeats once wrote, in a poem entitled after Dante&#8217;s Vita nuova &#8216;Ego Dominus Tuus&#8217;, that Dante &#8216;has made that hollow face of his \/ more plain to the mind&#8217;s eye than any face \/ but that of Christ&#8217;. Franke now shows that there is more to the Irish poet&#8217;s lines than we thought. He bravely confronts the problems of hermeneutics which making his &#8216;face&#8217; plain in the Vita nuova&#8217;s love story might imply for its author and proposes, shedding light on both texts, that this strange &#8216;autobiography&#8217; deliberately looks for a &#8216;poetics of revelation&#8217; and is constructed as a true &#8216;New Testament&#8217;.&#8217; Piero Boitani, Emeritus, Comparative Literature, Sapienza University of Rome<\/p>\n<div class=\"contentHiddenReviews\">\n<p>&#8216;Professor Franke&#8217;s original, tightly argued study makes a significant contribution to the reappraisal of Dante&#8217;s youthful masterpiece by offering, at once, a fresh translation and a well-rounded interpretation. Dante&#8217;s Vita Nuova and the New Testament is to be welcomed for its concern to present Dante&#8217;s libello to an Anglophone readership, as it offers a global interpretation of the Vita nuova at the crossroad between Biblical and philosophical traditions.&#8217; Giuseppe Ledda, Universit\u00e0 di Bologna<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/vn\/sowell-madison-review-of-vn-bk\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4180\">Sowell Madison review of VN bk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mary Watt review,\u00a0<i>Christianity &amp; Literature<\/i>\u00a0Volume 73, Issue 4 (December 2024).<\/p>\n<p>Franke, William. Dante\u2019s Vita nuova and the New Testament: Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation. With the original Italian text and a new English translation of the Vita nuova. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 244 pp. ISBN 978-1-316-51617-1<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/vn\/watt-review-of-vn-bk-in-christianity-and-literature-images-0\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4458\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4458\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2025\/04\/Watt-review-of-VN-bk-in-Christianity-and-Literature-images-0-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1978\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2025\/04\/Watt-review-of-VN-bk-in-Christianity-and-Literature-images-0-scaled.jpg 1978w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2025\/04\/Watt-review-of-VN-bk-in-Christianity-and-Literature-images-0-232x300.jpg 232w, 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src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2025\/04\/Watt-review-of-VN-bk-in-Christianity-and-Literature-images-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1674\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2025\/04\/Watt-review-of-VN-bk-in-Christianity-and-Literature-images-1-scaled.jpg 1674w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2025\/04\/Watt-review-of-VN-bk-in-Christianity-and-Literature-images-1-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2025\/04\/Watt-review-of-VN-bk-in-Christianity-and-Literature-images-1-425x650.jpg 425w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2025\/04\/Watt-review-of-VN-bk-in-Christianity-and-Literature-images-1-768x1175.jpg 768w, 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https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2025\/04\/Watt-review-of-VN-bk-in-Christianity-and-Literature-images-3-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2025\/04\/Watt-review-of-VN-bk-in-Christianity-and-Literature-images-3-425x650.jpg 425w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2025\/04\/Watt-review-of-VN-bk-in-Christianity-and-Literature-images-3-768x1175.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2025\/04\/Watt-review-of-VN-bk-in-Christianity-and-Literature-images-3-1004x1536.jpg 1004w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2025\/04\/Watt-review-of-VN-bk-in-Christianity-and-Literature-images-3-1339x2048.jpg 1339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1674px) 100vw, 1674px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is a testament to the elegance and focused writing style of William Franke that this sweeping commentary on the Vita Nuova is actually rather short. (While the volume contains 244 pages, the last 80 or so pages are taken up with the original Italian text and Franke\u2019s superb translation thereof.) This is not to say that the study is in any way lacking; indeed, in my opinion, Franke, a Professor of Comparative Literature and Religious Studies at Vanderbilt University, has produced here what should be considered the definitive study of Dante\u2019s first book-length project.<\/p>\n<p>From the opening lines of the Prologue to the closing arguments of the Conclusion, Franke explores how Dante constructs the Vita nuova, such that the libello (the little book) becomes an instrument of revelation, revealing its ultimate significance not only to the poet protagonist but also to Dante\u2019s readers \u2013 including William Franke.<\/p>\n<p>Franke wastes no words. Using prose that is both compact and fluid, he elucidates complex ideas in such a way that the reader cannot help but nod in agreement, marveling at why no one had seen this before Franke. The answer to the question is implicit in the Prologue, where Franke locates his examination in the context of the recent revolution in literary theory. While this revolution has generated a plethora of new approaches, it has ignored (or, perhaps, intentionally eschewed) the connection between literature and religion. As a result, Dante studies, in recent years, have missed the obvious; Dante, Franke asserts, \u201cplaces his own literary production in a zone nearly continuous with revelation in the Bible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the Introduction, Franke supports this assertion as he shows how the Vite nuova functions as theological revelation through lyrical interpretation. The lyric mode is, for Franke, the key to Dante\u2019s understanding of Beatrice\u2019s significance in his own salvation. The Vita nuova, he contends, owes its \u201cincomparable visionary power to the musical and emotional qualities of lyric.\u201d Franke\u2019s reading, of course, necessarily depends upon and accepts the existence of the soul, and thus, his reading necessarily moves, like Dante\u2019s, ever closer to a theological zone. But, yes, this makes perfect sense! This is what Dante intended all along.<\/p>\n<p>The next chapter, \u201cThe New Testament Model for Salvific Reminiscence\u201d considers the specific models upon which Dante relies to signal the salvific significance of Beatrice\u2019s appearance in his life. Here, Franke argues that Dante uses a process similar to that of the a posteriori narrativization of poetic prophecy found in the Gospel of John to gradually reveal about Beatrice what he did not know at first but which is later revealed to him. Further, Franke observes that in the Vita nuova, as in the miracle stories about Jesus, even when the Gospel invokes the rhetoric of factuality, the \u201cfacts are always presented as signs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conclusion drawn in the next chapter, \u201cThe Vita Nuova\u2019s Hermeneutics of Witness,\u201d naturally follows as Franke examines Dante\u2019s experience of Beatrice as his \u2018beatifier.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>This revelation, he suggests, is akin to the revelation of Jesus as the Christ, which is \u201cinextricably bound up in the disciples\u2019 personal experience in relation to Jesus and with their lyrical, poetic expression of it.\u201d (33) Moreover, as in the case of the gospels, in Dante\u2019s recollection of the experience of Beatrice, the memory becomes a way of actualizing revelation in the present.<\/p>\n<p>In Chapter 4, \u201cPhenomenology versus Hermeneutics: Revelation as Mediation,\u201d Franke debates the position taken by Dante scholar Robert Harrison, author of The Body of Beatrice. Harrison\u2019s assertion of the absolute priority of Dante&#8217;s experience of Beatrice as a woman rather than as a beatifier, according to Franke, boxes reality into the narrow experience of a subject. In this chapter lies the kernel of Franke\u2019s engagement with the Vita Nuova and provides the foundation for the chapters that follow, where he presents a new hermeneutics-centered critical paradigm. It also leads to his conclusion that poetry is the generative source of Dante\u2019s narrative, the source of, Dante\u2019s own gospel, \u201cthe good news according to Dante,\u201d in which he chronicles the revelation of Beatrice as a beatifier.<\/p>\n<p>The Epilogue in which Franke examines the role of dreams in the revelatory process in<\/p>\n<p>Dante\u2019s literary project could, in many ways, may I suggest, equally function as the introduction. While he presents this focus on the dream in the Vita nuova as a denoue<\/p>\n<p>ment and supplement to the preceding chapters, Franke\u2019s reminder that Dante believed in the dream as a real revelation of the immortality of the soul (139,) suggests that a study of the dream might also be an apt starting point for an exploration of Dante\u2019s experience of revelation in his waking state.<\/p>\n<p>It is in this circular quality of Franke\u2019s analysis that we see both its brilliance and its completeness. While other readings, such as Harrison\u2019s, become linear and finite, Franke\u2019s mirrors Dante\u2019s ultimate revelation, articulated in Paradiso 30, where the river of time circles back on itself, fusing time and space and revealing a truth that is enduring and infinite. In the same spirit, then, I return to my opening comments and reiterate that this latest offering from William Franke should be the starting point of any serious study of Dante\u2019s Vita nuova.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Watt<\/p>\n<p>University of Florida<\/p>\n<p>**********<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;De gran utilidad para una lectura ad litteram de la Vida nueva<br \/>\nes la magn\u00edfica traducci\u00f3n que William Franke incluy\u00f3, junto al texto Barbi, como<br \/>\nap\u00e9ndice a un estudio reciente (2021) \u2013 aunque dista en varios puntos esenciales de la que aqu\u00ed se presenta \u2013.&#8221;<\/p>\n<pre id=\"tw-target-text\" class=\"tw-data-text tw-text-large tw-ta\" dir=\"ltr\" role=\"text\" data-placeholder=\"Traduction\" data-ved=\"2ahUKEwjws5TB8NqSAxXPEFkFHUZxJUQQ3ewLegQIDBAW\" aria-label=\"Texte traduit\u00a0: Of great use for a literal reading of the Vita Nuova is the magnificent translation that William Franke included, along with the Barbi text, as an appendix to a recent study (2021) \u2013 although it differs in several essential points from the one presented here \u2013\"><span class=\"Y2IQFc\" lang=\"en\">(\"Of great use for a literal reading of the Vita Nuova is the magnificent translation that William Franke included, along with the Barbi text, as an\r\nappendix to a recent study (2021) \u2013 although it differs in several essential points from the one presented here \u2013.\")\r\n<\/span><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<h6 class=\"ds2-5-heading-sans-serif-lg\"><strong>Dante Alighieri,<em> \u2018Vida nueva \/ Vita nuova\u2019,<\/em> Bilingual edition (Italian-Spanish), translation, Barbi\/Gorni cross-references, Introduction, commentaries, bibliography, website-bibliography and indexes to the first lines of the poems by Augusto Nava Mora. Guanajuato (Mx): MIQ, 2024<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p>*********************<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/vn\/speculum-review-of-vn-nt-bk\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4706\">Speculum Review by Jelena Todorovi\u0107<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/vn\/speculum-review-of-vn-nt-bk-images-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4707\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4707\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2026\/07\/Speculum-Review-of-VN-NT-bk-images-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1774\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2026\/07\/Speculum-Review-of-VN-NT-bk-images-1-scaled.jpg 1774w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2026\/07\/Speculum-Review-of-VN-NT-bk-images-1-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2026\/07\/Speculum-Review-of-VN-NT-bk-images-1-450x650.jpg 450w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2026\/07\/Speculum-Review-of-VN-NT-bk-images-1-768x1109.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2026\/07\/Speculum-Review-of-VN-NT-bk-images-1-1064x1536.jpg 1064w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2026\/07\/Speculum-Review-of-VN-NT-bk-images-1-1419x2048.jpg 1419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1774px) 100vw, 1774px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/vn\/speculum-review-of-vn-nt-bk-images-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4708\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4708\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2026\/07\/Speculum-Review-of-VN-NT-bk-images-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1774\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2026\/07\/Speculum-Review-of-VN-NT-bk-images-2-scaled.jpg 1774w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2026\/07\/Speculum-Review-of-VN-NT-bk-images-2-208x300.jpg 208w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2026\/07\/Speculum-Review-of-VN-NT-bk-images-2-450x650.jpg 450w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2026\/07\/Speculum-Review-of-VN-NT-bk-images-2-768x1109.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2026\/07\/Speculum-Review-of-VN-NT-bk-images-2-1064x1536.jpg 1064w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2026\/07\/Speculum-Review-of-VN-NT-bk-images-2-1419x2048.jpg 1419w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1774px) 100vw, 1774px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>******************<\/p>\n<p>Abreu de Lima, Helo\u00edsa.<br \/>\n2025. Interpreting Beatrice: The<br \/>\nCritical Reception of the Character in<br \/>\nthe Last Twenty-Five Years.<br \/>\nHumanities 14: 131. https:\/\/<br \/>\ndoi.org\/10.3390\/h14060131<\/p>\n<p>The idea that the Vita nuova is a text similar to the Gospels is developed to its full<br \/>\nextent by William Franke, whose edition and translation of the Vita nuova is introduced by an extensive study that addresses important interpretive issues concerning Beatrice (Franke 2021). According to Franke, Beatrice is undoubtedly a Christ-like person, and this can be proved not only by the oft-quoted analogy stated at chapter 24, but also by different claims made by Dante concerning her beatifying power-claims that, in Dante\u2019s cultural and religious context, could not rely on any model other than Christ. In this regard, Beatrice \u201cis strikingly like the one who proclaims himself \u2018the way, the truth, and the life\u2019 (John 14: 6)\u201d (Franke 2021, p. 2): she is herself the \u201cnew life\u201d, the deep religious meaning of the work\u2019s title, beyond the common meaning referring to Dante\u2019s \u201cyouth\u201d. Although many claims made by Dante throughout the Vita nuova might seem like heterodox idolatry, Franke notes that Beatrice should not be understood as a surrogate for Christ: she is the bridge through which Christ reaches Dante, incarnating Christ for Dante and constituting his personal experience of the miraculous and divine. This interpretation of Beatrice is the foundation of Franke\u2019s extensive reading of the Vita nuova, which proposes to use the Gospels \u201cas the model of a book written in loving memory of a person whose significance is\u2014and must remain\u2014central in the life of the author(s)\u201d (Franke 2021, p. 8).<\/p>\n<div class=\"contentHiddenReviews\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/vn\/vn-bk-cover-back-cup-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3699\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3699\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2021\/09\/VN-bk-cover-back-CUP-650x472.jpg\" alt=\"VN bk cover back CUP\" width=\"650\" height=\"472\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2021\/09\/VN-bk-cover-back-CUP-650x472.jpg 650w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2021\/09\/VN-bk-cover-back-CUP-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/470\/2021\/09\/VN-bk-cover-back-CUP-768x557.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dante&#8217;s Vita Nuova and the New Testament: Hermeneutics and the Poetics of Revelation\u00a0 Revolution in Poetic Language: Dante\u2019s Use of the Vernacular as Vehicle for Theological Revelation (youtube.com) William Franke, &#8220;Dante\u2019s New Life, or How Phenomenological Reduction Enables Theological Revelation&#8221; (youtube.com) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":615,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3294","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/615"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4709,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3294\/revisions\/4709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/williamfranke\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}