id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt dj52w378x6r Katie Sparrow Dante's Self-Characterization in the Vita Nova: Auctoritas through Love and Writing 1904 .txt text/plain 134 4 46 Though Dante Alighieri deems writing of oneself inappropriate in his Convivio, he appears as a protagonist or source of exemplary poetry in almost every one of his works. His Vita Nova can be considered the most self-reflective of these works, since it recounts the personal emotions, thoughts, and events of Alighieri's youth, as part of and in addition to a commentary on his own poetry. cache/dj52w378x6r.txt txt/dj52w378x6r.txt