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Historically, these twelve divisions are called signs. Essentially, the zodiac is a celestial coordinate system, or more specifically an ecliptic coordinate system, which takes the ecliptic as the origin of latitude, and the position of the Sun at vernal equinox as the origin of longitude.
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| Zodiac Wheel Image by Evelyn Paul (1910), for Dante: “La Vita Nuova (The New Life)” (Image Reproduced fromoldbooks.org) |
Dante's Vita nova: An Introductory Note...
Excerpts from article by Andrew Fisardi on Poetry Daily.. pictures from Here and Hare
There is good reason for having many perspectives on Dante's youthful book. It is a complex work, full of inconsistencies and obscurities. In addition, close readers of the Divine Comedy know that it is never a good idea to underestimate Dante's subtlety and genius for packing a lot into a little space. In anything that Dante writes we expect there to be more than meets the eye, and there almost always is.
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The editors of one recent English-language edition of the book identify three forms of time in the story: individual time, cosmic time, and calendar time, while the end of the narrative moves out of time altogether, into eternity.
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The Vita nova's action takes place along shifting and overlapping planes of reality—social, visionary, prophetic, hallucinatory.
