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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...

The first volume of The Divine Comedy-Dante begins his downward journey through the seven circles of Hell.Considered to be one of the greatest literary works of all time, Dante's immortal drama of a journey through Hell is the first volume of his Divine...

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...

Dante's Fearful Art of Justice deals primarily with the symbolic significance of 'the state of souls after death' in various episodes of the Inferno, the first canticle of Dante's Divina Commedia. The fruitlessness of the Auerbach-Singleton approach to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954218055Author Ardengo SofficiFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books

Critically engaging the thought of Heidegger, Gadamer and others, William Franke contributes both to the criticism of Dante's Divine Comedy and to the theory of interpretation. Reading the poem through using hermeneutical theory, Franke focuses...

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,...

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 9781599104362Author Giovanni PascoliFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999261354Author Giovanni PascoliFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books

Valerio Magrelli was born in Rome in 1957. Among many other awards for his poems, he has won the Mondello Prize (1980), the Viareggio (1987), the Montale Prize (2002) and the Feltrinelli Prize (2002) and the Cetona Prize (2007). A lecturer on French...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533687Author Geoffrey BrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788897696223Author Leo CardiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint B'Gruppo SrlPublisher B'Gruppo SrlWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374524524Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 395gDimensions(mm)...

Petrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore. . . . Hainsworth's study meets this problem through examples of what Petrarch wrote, and does so decisively...

Hairston has constructed a full personal, cultural and literary biography for d'Aragona, using newly discovered letters, archival material of other kinds, and contemporary theory about gender in women's writing. Footnotes establish the intricacy of...

Gaspara Stampa (1523-1554) is one of the finest female poets ever to write in Italian. Although she was lauded for her singing during her lifetime, her success and critical reputation as a poet emerged only after her verse was republished in the early...

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...

The Divine Comedy, completed around 1320, is a supreme work of the imagination None of Dante's other works, nor even all of his other works taken together, can rival the Comedy. How did the Florentine exile come to create this masterpiece? What steps in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420974638Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 603g

In its literary impact, Montale's Xenia, published in 1966 in an edition of just 50 copies, might be described as Italy's The Waste Land. This now-famous sequence came in profound response to the death, in 1963, of his beloved wife whom he nicknamed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781932559019Author Matteo Maria BoiardoFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 1229gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998267548Author Giorgio de ChiricoFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint A Public SpacePublisher A Public Space

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621385622Author Andrew FrisardiFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788826606163Author Pope Francis - Jorge Mario BergoglioFormat PaperbackPage Count 44Imprint Libreria Editrice VaticanaPublisher Libreria Editrice...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781599102634Author Author Torquato TassoFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Italica PressPublisher Italica PressWeight(grams) 376gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Pietro Bembo (1470-1547), scholar and critic, was one of the most admired Latinists of his day. After some years at the court of Urbino, where he exchanged Platonic love letters with Lucrezia Borgia, he moved to Rome and served as secretary to Leo X...

Often history is told by the victors, or by those who did not witness it. Trilussa was a witness, and through his art, a victor. He documented Roman and Italian society in poems and fables, from Italy's birth in the late nineteenth century, to its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597310017Author Jennifer D UptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Sophia Perennis et UniversalisPublisher Sophia Perennis et UniversalisWeight(grams)...

"This book is a confessio vitae, an expression of the drama every person experiences when separated from the divine, when pushed between hope and despair, illusion and disappointment, darkness and light" In this highly distinctive artistic...

Giovanni Pontano (1429-1503), whose academic name was Gioviano, was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance as well as a leading statesman who served as prime minister to the Kings of Aragon and southern Italy. The dominant literary figure of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625072Author Pier Paolo PasoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum Press

The most comprehensive collection in English of the founder of modern Italian poetryGiovanni Pascoli (1855-1912)-the founder of modern Italian poetry and one of Italy's most beloved poets-has been compared to Robert Frost for his evocation of natural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781621385615Author Andrew FrisardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Angelico PressPublisher Angelico PressWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781954218024Author Maria BorioFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint World Poetry BooksPublisher World Poetry Books

Marie-Therese Walter was seventeen when she met Picasso. He was forty-six. These poems - as simple and direct as quick sketches - use her voice to tell the story of the relationship with Picasso and what it meant to her from its first beginnings, until...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393344196Author Eugenio MontaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams)...