La Dolce Vita critic and co-founder of "Cahiers du cinéma", felt that "The New York Times" film critic Bosley Crowther praised Fellini’s Roger Ebert considered "La Dolce Vita" as Fellini’s best film, as well as his favorite film of all time and listed it consistently in his top ten films for the "Sight & Sound" Greatest Films poll every ten years. Ebert's first review for the film, written on October 4, 1961, was the first film review he wrote, before he started his career as a film critic in 1967. The film was also a touchstone for Ebert, in how his perspective 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