This essay looks at the centrality of ideas of love and friendship that are maintained in the interminable online commentaries on contemporary social networks, particularly Facebook. Vita Nuova establishes, in the Western tradition, love as inextricably bound to the commentary that it generates in prose and poetry. Most importantly, Dante’s main interlocutor was Guido Cavalcanti, a poet and theoretician ten years Dante’s senior who would become his mentor. Among them were Dante di Maiano and a Lute maker called Belacqua who may have put a ballata, included in the book, to music. It is well known that the poems that would later be collected in Dante’s first book Vita Nuova emerged as part of a “social network” of fellow adolescents and poets in Florence.
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