The Book

Also from Camperfield press is La Vita Nuova, using the translation of Dante Alghieri by his namesake Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This work includes short music scores composed by Alfred Mercer. The actual name of this Dante's collection of writing is La Vita Nova.
The Italian language still did not exist in 1300, nor existed the word “nuova”. Dante wrote La Vita Nova in Volgare (vulgar), the new language that was forming, evolving from the Latin. See also: De vulgari eloquentia