Miss Brown by Vernon Lee, Fiction

🌐🌐🌐 Towards the end of the sitting, he suddenly looked up. Have you ever read the Vita Nuova, Miss Brown he asked. Whats the Vita Nuova It is a little book by Dante, in prose and verse, telling how he met Beatrice, and then how she died. It is much more beautiful than the Divina Commedia. She looked incredulous. Is it more beautiful than Bertran del Bornio, where he carried his head like a lantern Or Bocca degli Abati, where they all change into snakes Or Cacciaguida when he prophesies about Dantes exile It is quite different -- all about beautiful things, and love. I dont care for that. You must read it some day, though. Miss Brown was silent, and relapsed into her usual sullen appearance.