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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385496988Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) was a major cultural figure in post-WWII Italy, well-known as a poet, novelist, communist intellectual, and filmmaker. In Danger is the first anthology in English devoted to his political and literary essays, with a...

Poems of Rome ranges across the centuries and contains the work of poets from many cultures and times, from ancient Rome to contemporary America. Designed to lend itself to those visiting the city - whether in person or imagination - the book is divided...

Montale's incandescently beautiful poetry is deeply rooted in the venerable lyric tradition that began with Dante, but he brilliantly reinvents that tradition for our time, probing the depths of love, death, faith and philosophy in the bracing light of...

Rachel Owen's hauntingly beautiful illustrations for Dante's Inferno take a radically new approach to representing the world of Dante's famous poem. The images combine the artist's deep cultural and historical understanding of 'The Divine Comedy' and its...

Geoffrey Brock, whose translations have won him Poetry magazine's John Frederick Nims Memorial Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship, finally does justice to these slim, concentrated verses in his English translation, alongside Giuseppe Ungaretti's Italian...

Dante's dramatic journey through the circles of hell in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of some of the greatest sinners who ever walked on earth - is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the summit...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451208637Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 928Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm) 227mm *...

Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive literary Latin, the language of the Roman Empire, and Greco-Roman culture in general. My Secret Book (Secretum)...

The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields...

Dante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption - and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints - is one of the cornerstones...

Cecco Angiolieri, the enfant terrible of Italian literature, loved women, gambling, food and wine. It is said that he found comfort for his bad luck at the dice and with Becchina, his unreciprocating lover, only by pouring venomous scorn upon his miserly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812971255Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 132mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533281Author Eugenio MontaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 943gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400031153Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 1024Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 132mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681377834Author Amelia RosselliFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Michelangelo studied and wrote poetry throughout his life, and his finest literary efforts are allied with the masterwoks of his visual art, and this translation captures the pathos, complexity, and ardor of both Michelangelo's language and his poetic...

This collection of Dante Alighieri's lyrics charts his poetic evolution and displays the ground on which his Vita nuova and Divine Comedy developed. Inspired in his early poems by troubadour love poetry, Dante would later come to master all the genres of...

Archipelago is a bilingual selection of poems by the leading Italian poet Antonella Anedda drawn from five collections she has published in Italy. Her poetry has a searing, disruptive quality, an honesty that is hard won. Her words have the air of...

The defeat of the Ottomans by the Holy League fleet at the Battle of Lepanto (1571) was among the most celebrated international events of the sixteenth century. This volume anthologizes the work of twenty-two poets from diverse social and geographical...

Set against the chequered background of Rome, the city of the six Ps - Pope, priests, princes, prostitutes, parasites and the poor - Belli's sometimes scandalous sonnets deal with life's elementals: love, death, sex, food, money, family, religion and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555976545Author MR Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Graywolf PressPublisher Graywolf PressWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 227mm *...

One of the most remarkable modern European poets is now available in English for the first time. My Life, I Lapped It Up reveals Sanguineti's innovative contribution to Italian poetry, featuring work from his mid- and late career. This period contains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540214Author Paolo RuffilliFormat PaperbackImprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540610Author Joanne MonteFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 313g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540856Author Joelle BieleFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540603Author Joanne MonteFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599541105Author Michela ZanarellaFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540917Author Ernesto LivorniFormat PaperbackImprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599540931Author Natalia Costa-ZalessowFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Bordighera PressPublisher Bordighera PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771834346Author Pellegrino D'AciernoFormat PaperbackPage Count 125Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams) 0g

Andrea Zanzotto is one of the most important and acclaimed poets of postwar Italy. This collection of ninety-one pseudo-haiku in English and Italian - written over several months during 1984 and then revised slowly over the years - confirms his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940866331Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint University of Scranton Press,U.S.Publisher University of Scranton Press,U.S...

Though known primarily as a sculptor and painter, Michelangelo was also a poet. In his lifetime, Michelangelo wrote over 300 poems, many of which were works of devotion and love poems of a spiritual and mystical nature. In 1961, Joseph Tusiani offered...

Veronica Gambara (1485–1550) was one of the most celebrated lyric poets of early sixteenth-century Italy. Equally significant to Gambara’s literary repute was her political standing as the dowager Countess of Correggio. Though she never published a...

A Poetry Precise and Free collects 150 lyric poems by the Renaissance Italian poet Giovanni Battista Guarini in new translations, accompanied by the Italian originals and commentary that will enlighten and engage both scholars and general readers. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442639003Author Anthony K CassellFormat PaperbackPage Count 226Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 336g

Dante is known to most readers outside Italy for his gritty descriptions of the Inferno, but there is another, gentler side to his poetry, which found expression throughout his career in verses that made him, together with his friend Guido Cavalcanti,...

Foscolo ranks among the most famous and enduringly popular poets in Italian literature, and in this collection, the only available in the English language, his most significant poems are collected in J.G. Nichols's lucid verse translation. Expressing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376967Author Antonella AneddaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc