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The original Italian is more literally translated by D.G.

The quotation that The Doctor reads is paraphrased from Dante's La Vita Nuova. ( VOY: " Latent Image") Background information On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,Īppear the words, 'Here begins a new life'.

At one point, Captain Janeway left her copy in the holodeck with The Doctor, who read a section from it aloud to himself: It is the story of the life-changing love of Dante for a young woman named Beatrice Portinari, a character who also figured prominently in his Divine Comedy.Ĭaptain Kathryn Janeway was reading a translation of the book in 2375 while helping The Doctor cope with an ethical conflict. La Vita Nuova (" The New Life") was a literary piece written in a prosimetrum style, alternating between prose and poetry, by Dante in 1295. Captain Janeway reading La Vita Nuova late at night in her quarters
