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  • The Portable Medieval Reader

    by Various ...
    Series series Portable Library
    In their introduction to this anthology, James Bruce Ross and Mary Martin McLaughlin remind us that "no area of the past is dead if we are alive to it. The variety, the complexity, the sheer humanity of the middle ages live most meaningfully in their own authentic voices." The Portable Medieval Reader assembles an entire chorus of those voices—of kings, warriors, prelates, merchants, artisans, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Leon Battista Alberti

    Writer and Humanist

    by Martin McLaughlin ...
    The first book in English to examine Leon Battista Alberti’s major literary works in Latin and Italian, which are often overshadowed by his achievements in architectureLeon Battista Alberti (1404–1472) was one of the most prolific and original writers of the Italian Renaissance—a fact often eclipsed by his more celebrated achievements as an art theorist and architect, and by Jacob Burckhardt’s ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Italo Calvino

    Letters, 1941–1985

    by Italo Calvino ...
    Translated by Martin McLaughlin ...
    The first collection of letters in English by one of the great writers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ideology, Censorship and Translation

    Edited by Martin McLaughlin, Javier Muñoz-Basols ...
    This volume invites us to revisit ideology, censorship and translation by adopting a variety of perspectives. It presents case studies and theoretical analyses from different chronological periods and focuses on a variety of genres, themes and audiences. Focusing on issues that have thus far not been addressed in a sufficiently connected way and from a variety of disciplines, they analyse ... Read more

    $58.95 USD

  • Transmissions of Memory

    Echoes, Traumas, and Nostalgia in Post–World War II Italian Culture

    by Patrizia Sambuco, Adele Bardazzi, David W. Ellwood, John Foot, Torunn Haaland, Andrea Hajek, Charles L. Leavitt IV, Martin McLaughlin, Sandra Parmegiani, Katia Pizzi0, Maria Cristina Seccia1, Incoronata (Nadia) Inserra2 ...
    Series series
    Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas and Nostalgia in Post-World War II Italian Culture discusses cultural products—films, poetry, fiction, architectural buildings, autobiographical writing, and social media—to individuate through them the dynamics of memory. The field of analysis is Italian culture from World War II to the contemporary times, and the volume has in a gendered approach one of ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Machiavelli’s Prince

    Traditions, Text and Translations

    by Nicola Gardini, Martin McLaughlin ...
    One of the high-points of Italian Renaissance humanism, Machiavelli’s The Prince immediately transcended the time and culture from which it had sprung, circulating throughout Europe and paving the road to an astonishing variety of discussions on power and liberty for centuries to come. Indeed, one could hardly think of a literary work whose reception has been more controversial and arguably more ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Britain and Italy from Romanticism to Modernism

    A Festschrift for Peter Brand

    by Martin McLaughlin ...
    "In this volume a team of experts in various fields considers the impact of Italian politics and culture on British life from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twentieth century. The essays cover a wide range of topics: politics, music, the visual arts, literature and the intellectual life, as well as the emergence of Italian as an academic discipline. Edited, with an ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy: a Festschrift for John Woodhouse

    by Martin McLaughlin ...
    "Critical interest in biography and autobiography has never been higher. However, while life-writing flourishes in the UK, in Italy it is a less prominent genre. The twelve essays collected here are written against this backdrop, and address issues in biographical and autobiographical writing in Italy from the later nineteenth century to the present, with a particular emphasis on the interplay ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology

    Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti

    by Martin McLaughlin ...
    Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), who died at the stake, is one of the best-known symbols of anti-establishment thought. The theme of this volume, which is offered as a collection of essays to honour the distinguished Bruno scholar Hilary Gatti, reflects her constant concern for the principles of cultural freedom and independent thinking. Several essays deal with Bruno himself, including an analysis of ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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    Collection of Sand

    Essays

    by Italo Calvino ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 9 min

    The first English-language translation of the great Italian author’s final collection of essays.Collection of Sand is the last of Italo Calvino's works to appear during the author's lifetime. This eye-opening collection embraces both the world and the word, and the themes of stone and sand implicit in the title are evident in many of these essays. Calvino applies his graceful intellect to the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    Why Read the Classics?

    by Italo Calvino ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 42 min

    “All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics.”—from Why Read the Classics?Classics, according to Italo Calvino, are not only works of enduring cultural value, but also something much more personal: talismans, touchstones, books through which we understand our world and ourselves. In Why Read the Classics?, Calvino shares over thirty of his classics in ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Path to the Spiders' Nests

    by Italo Calvino ...
    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 53 min

    Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much time as he can at a seedy bar where he amuses the adult patrons.After a mishap with a Nazi soldier, Pin becomes involved with a band of partisans ... Read more

    $15.99 USD