La Dolce Vita earned the "Palme d'Or" (Golden Palm) at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival. "Entertainment Weekly" voted it the 6th Greatest film of all time. In 2010, the film was ranked #11 in "Empire" magazine's "The 100 Best Films of World Cinema". La Dolce Vita La Dolce Vita (; Italian for "the sweet life" or "the good life") is a 1960 Italian drama film directed and co-written by Federico Fellini. The film follows Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni), a journalist writing for gossip magazines, over seven days and nights on his journey through the "sweet life" of Rome in a fruitless search for
La Vita Nuova full translation into English was by Joseph Garrow and it was published in 1846. "La Vita Nuova" contains 42 brief chapters (31 for Guglielmo Gorni) with commentaries on 25 sonnets, one "ballata", and four canzoni; one canzone is left unfinished, interrupted by the death of Beatrice Portinari, Dante's lifelong love. Dante's two-part commentaries explain each poem, placing them within the context of his life. The chapters containing poems consist of three parts: the semi-autobiographical narrative, the lyric that resulted from those circumstances, and brief structural outline of the lyric. The poems present a frame story, recounting Dante's love of Beatrice