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  • Serious Play

    Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto

    de Robert Hanning ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe's three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire. Yet they also excelled at the dangerous game of skewering the elites on whom they depended for patronage. The resulting depictions of addled lovers and rattled rulers create a unique dynamic of trenchant critique wrapped in amusing, enlightening, ... Leer más

    $67.99 USD

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  • The Decameron

    de Giovanni Boccaccio, G. H. McWilliam ...
    Traducido por G. H. McWilliam ...
    In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...Taken from the Greek, meaning 'ten-day event', Boccaccio's Decameron sees his characters amuse themselves by each telling a story a day, for the ten days of their confinement - a hundred stories of love and adventure, life and death, and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

  • How Dante Can Save Your Life

    The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem

    de Rod Dreher ...
    The opening lines of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri launched Rod Dreher on a journey that rescued him from exile and saved his life. Dreher found that the medieval poem offered him a surprisingly practical way of solving modern problems.Following the death of his little sister and the publication of his New York Times bestselling memoir The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Dreher found himself ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • In Dante's Wake

    Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition

    de John Freccero ...
    Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the Divine Comedy realizes he must set his sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port. Starting on the sand of that very shore with Dante, John Freccero begins retracing the famous voyage recounted by the poet nearly 700 years ago.Freccero follows pilgrim and poet through the Comedy and ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati

    The Reprehension of Vice

    de Fabian Alfie ...
    ‘And by now, mind, it’s too late to redeem your debts by giving up guzzling.’Dante's poetic correspondence (or tenzone) with Forese Donati, a relative of his wife, was rife with crude insults: the two men derided one another on topics ranging from sexual dysfunction and cowardice to poverty and thievery. But in his Commedia, rather than denying this correspondence, Dante repeatedly acknowledged ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • The Biblical Dante

    de V. Stanley Benfell ...
    Dante Alighieri cited the Bible extensively in his Commedia, but also used his epic poem to meditate on the meaning of the Scriptures as a 'true' text. The Biblical Dante provides close readings of passages from the Commedia to explore how Dante's concept of Biblical truth differs sharply from modern notions.V. Stanley Benfell examines Dante's argument that the truth of the sacred text could only ... Leer más

    $71.99 USD

  • Approaches to Teaching Petrarch's Canzoniere and the Petrarchan Tradition

    Edición de Christopher Kleinhenz, Andrea Dini ...
    Series Libro 129 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    One of the most important authors of the Middle Ages, Petrarch occupies a complex position: historically, he is a medieval author, but, philosophically, he heralds humanism and the Renaissance. Teachers of Petrarch's Canzoniere and his formative influence on the canon of Western European poetry face particular challenges. Petrarch's poetic style brings together the classical tradition, ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy

    Volume 2

    de George Corbett, Heather Webb ...
    Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Tolkien Studies

    An Annual Scholarly Review, Volume IX

    Edición de Michael D.C. Drout, Douglas A Anderson, Verlyn Flieger ...
    Tolkien Studies: An Annual Scholarly Review presents the growing body of critical commentary and scholarship on both J. R. R. Tolkien's voluminous fiction and his academic work in literary and linguistic fields. ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Petrarch's 'Fragmenta'

    The Narrative and Theological Unity of 'Rerum vulgarium fragmenta'

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities

    de Geoffrey Symcox ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    The first treatise ever written on the sociology of cities, On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities (1588) marked a radical departure from previous literature on urban centres. It provided a revolutionary analysis of how cities function, and of the political, economic, demographic and geographic factors that cause their growth and decline. Noteworthy too is Botero’s strikingly ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Dante's Lyric Poetry

    Poems of Youth and of the 'Vita Nuova'

    Traducido por Richard Lansing ...
    de Andrew Frisardi ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante’s early verse to be published in almost fifty years, Dante’s Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c. 1283 and c. 1292. Essays by Teodolinda Barolini guide the reader through the new verse translations by Richard Lansing, illuminating Dante’s transformation from a young courtly poet into ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD