La Strada was the high point of Fellini's career and that, after this film, "his work ran wild through the jungles of Freudian, Christian, sexual and autobiographical excess". (Ebert, himself, disagrees, seeing "La Strada" as "part of a process of discovery that led to the masterpieces "La Dolce Vita" (1960), "8 1/2" (1963) and "Amarcord" (1974)".) The years since its initial release have solidified the high estimation of "La Strada". It holds a 97% rating on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes from 31 reviewers who, on average, scored it 8.7 on a scale of 10. Its numerous appearances on lists of
La Vita Nuova to the Absolute, inspiring the integration of desire aroused by beauty with the longing of the soul for divine splendor. Referred to by Dante as his "libello", or "little book", "The New Life" is the first of two collections of verse written by Dante in his life. "La Vita Nuova" is a "prosimetrum", a piece containing both verse and prose, in the vein of Boethius' "Consolation of Philosophy". Dante used each "prosimetrum" as a means for combining poems written over periods of roughly ten years - "La Vita Nuova" contains his works from before 1283 to roughly 1293. The first