The new life of Dante Alighieri; by Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321; translated into English by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828-1882; and illustrated by Evelyn Paul, Publication date 1915 Publisher Coventry George G. Harrap. La Vita Nuova (The New Life) or Vita Nova (Latin title) is a text by Dante Alighieri published in 1294. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse.