Martin Eisner is Professor of Italian and Chair of Romance Studies at Duke University. He is the author of Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature (Cambridge, 2013) and Boccaccio: A Life in Books (Reaktion Books, forthcoming).

• Prologue: A Philology of World Literature


• Part One: Interpreting Beatrice


• 1: The Encounter (Postcard)


• 2: The Dream (Film)


• 3: The Crisis (Musical Staves)


• Part Two: Glossing Beatrice


• 4: The Mouth (Marginal Gloss)


• 5: The New Homer (Ultraviolet Colophon)


• 6: The Interruption (Picture Frame)


• Part Three: Remembering Beatrice


• 7: The Painting (Composition)


• 8: The Other Woman (Collation)


• 9: The Veronica (Tipped-in)

Dante's New Life of the Book examines Dante's Vita nuova through its transformations in manuscripts, printed books, translations, and adaptations. Eisner investigates how these different material manifestations participate in the work, drawing attention to its distinctive elements.