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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781393468899Author Sienna MynxFormat PaperbackPage Count 546Imprint Divas Pen LLCPublisher Divas Pen LLCWeight(grams) 794gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 31mm

Giovanni Boccaccio is one of the most influential writers in the Western tradition, yet his first literary work, "Diana's Hunt," has never been translated into English, and the Italian text has long been out of print. Anthony Cassell and Victoria Kirkham...

This comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it. In the United States, we tend to associate fairy tales...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578644158Author Daniel Philip BradyFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint One Insight PressPublisher One Insight PressWeight(grams) 236g

An analysis of how a political myth is taken and treated as a metaphor that reflects how a country like Germany built its own destiny. In the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, "Secret Germany" was a phrase used by the circle of writers around...

Like his groundbreaking Inferno (Hackett, 2009) and Purgatorio (Hackett, 2016), Stanley Lombardo's Paradiso features a close yet dynamic verse translation, innovative verse paragraphing for reader-friendliness, and a facing-page Italian text. It also...

Examines Gabriele D'Annunzio to re-evaluate cultural exchange and the political dimensions of global decadence and modernism First book to examine Gabriele D'Annunzio's work from a global perspective and within World Literature paradigms Transnational...

Nineteenth-Century Italian Women Writers and the Woman Question focuses on the literary, journalistic and epistolary production of Italian woman writer Neera, pseudonym for Anna Radius Zuccari, one of the most prolific and successful women writers of...

This comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it. In the United States, we tend to associate fairy tales...

The Poetry of Burchiello: Deep-fried Nouns, Hunchbacked Pumpkins, and Other Nonsense is the first complete English translation of the poetry of Domenico di Giovanni, nicknamed il Burchiello (ca. 1404-1449). A highly influential Florentine poet of the...

When originally published in 1995, the volume represented a major, new departure from the "normal" sort of scholarship on Boccaccio's masterpiece, and its unique approach and contents are still valid and valuable today. The seventeen original essays in...

This English translation of Leon Battista Alberti’s Renaissance dialogue offers timeless reflections on fortune, adversity, aging, and conversation.