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  • Dialogues of Love

    by Leone Ebreo, Rosella Pescatori ...
    Translated by Damian Bacich ...
    First published in Rome in 1535, Leone Ebreo's Dialogues of Love is one of the most important texts of the European Renaissance. Well known in the Italian academies of the sixteenth century, its popularity quickly spread throughout Europe, with numerous reprintings and translations into French, Latin Spanish, and Hebrew. It attracted a diverse audience that included noblemen, courtesans, artists, ... Read more

    $82.09 USD

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    by Prof. Giuseppe Mazzotta ...
    Series series The Open Yale Courses Series
    A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. Giuseppe Mazzotta brings Dante and his masterpiece to life in this exploration of the man, his cultural milieu, and his endlessly fascinating works.Based on Mazzotta’s highly popular Yale ... Read more

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  • The World Beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto

    by Jo Ann Cavallo ...
    This study offers a sustained examination of the presentation of eastern Asia, the Middle East, and northern Africa in two of the most important chivalric epics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato (1495) and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1516). Comparing the narratological strategies used to depict non-European characters in these stories, Jo ... Read more

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  • Measured Words

    Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy

    by Arielle Saiber ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Measured Words explores the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. In this captivating and generously illustrated work, Arielle Saiber studies the relationship between number, shape, and the written word in the works of four exceptional thinkers of the time: Leon Battista Alberti, Luca Pacioli, Niccolò Tartaglia, and Giambattista ... Read more

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  • Lyric Generations

    Poetry and the Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century

    by G. Gabrielle Starr ...
    Eighteenth-century British literary history was long characterized by two central and seemingly discrete movements—the emergence of the novel and the development of Romantic lyric poetry. In fact, recent scholarship reveals that these genres are inextricably bound: constructions of interiority developed in novels changed ideas about what literature could mean and do, encouraging the new focus on ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Petrarch's 'Fragmenta'

    The Narrative and Theological Unity of 'Rerum vulgarium fragmenta'

    by Thomas E Peterson ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, a collection of lyric poems on sacred and profane love and other subjects, has traditionally been viewed as reflecting the conflicted nature of its author. However, award winning author Thomas E. Peterson argues that Petrarch’s Fragmenta is an ordered and coherent work unified by narrative and theological structures.By concentrating on the poem’s reliance on ... Read more

    $64.09 USD

  • Writing Beloveds

    Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of Gender

    by Aileen Feng ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Covering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng’s engagingly written work identifies and analyzes a Latin humanist precursor to the poetic movement known as Renaissance Petrarchism. Though Petrachism is usually read solely as a vernacular poetic tradition, in Writing Beloveds, Feng recovers the initial political purposes in Latin prose and traces how poetry set ... Read more

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  • Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy

    by Alexandra Coller ...
    Sixteenth-century Italy witnessed the rebirth of comedy, tragedy, and tragicomedy in the pastoral mode. Traditionally, we think of comedy and tragedy as remakes of ancient models, and tragicomedy alone as the invention of the moderns. Women, Rhetoric, and Drama in Early Modern Italy suggests that all three genres were, in fact, remarkably new, if dramatists’ intriguingly sympathetic portrayals of ... Read more

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  • Dante and Islam

    by Jan M. Ziolkowski ...
    Series series Dante's World: Historicizing Literary Cultures of the Due and Trecento
    Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocryphal traditions about a “night journey” taken by Muhammad.Dante scholars have increasingly returned to ... Read more

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  • Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolo Machiavelli

    Patron, Client, and the Pistola fatta per la peste/An Epistle Written Concerning the Plague

    by William J. Landon ...
    By 1520, Niccolò Machiavelli’s life in Florence was steadily improving: he had achieved a degree of literary fame, and, following his removal from the Florentine Chancery by the Medici family, he had managed to gain their respect and patronage. But there is one figure whose substantial contributions to Machiavelli’s restoration has been hitherto neglected – Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi (1482–1549), ... Read more

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  • Arabian Nights' Entertainments

    Edited by Robert L. Mack ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    No other edition offers extensive textual apparatus such as explanatory notes, plot summaries, particularly vital as stories are complex and interwoven. The Sultan Schahriar's misguided resolution to shelter himself from the possible infidelities on his wives leads to an outbreak of barbarity in his kingdoms and a reign of terror in his court, stopped only by the resourceful Scheherazade. The ... Read more

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  • The English Boccaccio

    A History in Books

    by Guyda Armstrong ...
    The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio has had a long and colourful history in English translation. This new interdisciplinary study presents the first exploration of the reception of Boccaccio’s writings in English literary culture, tracing his presence from the early fifteenth century to the 1930s. Guyda Armstrong tells this story through a wide-ranging journey through time and space – from the ... Read more

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