La Vita Nuova
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La Vita Nuova ("The New Life") is a book of verse written around 1293 by Dante. It is the story of his love for Beatrice Portinari, who also figured prominently in his Divine Comedy.
Kathryn Janeway was reading a translation of that book in 2375 while helping the Doctor cope with an ethical conflict. (VOY: "Latent Image")
[edit] Background
The quotation that the Doctor reads at the end of "Latent Image" is paraphrased from Dante's La Vita Nuova. The Doctor reads:
"In that book which is my memory,
on the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
appear the words, 'Here begins a new life'."
The original Italian is more literally translated as:
"In that part of the book of my memory,
before which is little that can be read,
there is a rubric, saying, 'Incipit Vita Nova'. (Here beginneth the new life.)"
(D.G. Rossetti translation, 1861).
