{"id":820,"date":"2015-03-26T15:07:24","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T15:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devmcc4.com.php53-14.dfw1-2.websitetestlink.com\/mcc-publications\/september-2012\/prof-writes-dante-translation\/"},"modified":"2015-03-26T15:07:24","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T15:07:24","slug":"prof-writes-dante-translation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/september-2012\/prof-writes-dante-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Writes Dante Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Emanuel di Pasquale, poet-in-residence at MCC, has translated Dante\u2019s classic work \u201cThe New Life.\u201d The translation, co-authored by Bruno Alemanni, a retired writer and editor, was published in July. \u201cThe New Life,\u201d written in the 13<sup>th<\/sup> century, was Dante\u2019s first book. He compiled love poems he had written for a young woman named Beatrice, and introduced them with prose and described the circumstances of their creation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe book is about the mystery of love,\u201d Professor di Pasquale said. \u201cHuman love, which is a sign of the divinity in the human. What makes us divine, in other words, is our ability to love each other \u2013 love in all its forms: Love of children, love of family, love of father and mother, brother and sister; love of all humanity eventually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The translation is aimed at American readers, but does not sacrifice Dante\u2019s literary style.<\/p>\n<p>Professor di Pasquale\u2019s colleague, Daniel Zimmerman, professor of English at Middlesex, also says this work breaks new ground.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn his new translation of La Vita, Emanuel di Pasquale has captured the commonplace, matter-of-fact spirit with which Dante engages the materials that love and language provide him,\u201d Dr. Zimmerman said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Emanuel di Pasquale, poet-in-residence at MCC, has translated Dante\u2019s classic work \u201cThe New Life.\u201d The translation, co-authored by Bruno Alemanni, a retired writer and editor, was published in July. \u201cThe New Life,\u201d written in the 13th century, was Dante\u2019s first book. He compiled love poems he had written for a young woman named Beatrice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":817,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-820","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/820\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}