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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...

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 9781681376967Author Antonella AneddaFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint NYRB PoetsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 *...

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...

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...

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 9780374534790Author Patrizia CavalliFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 454g

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 9780804169127Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 448gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948924221Author MR Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Arcade PublishingPublisher Arcade PublishingWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

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...

An attractive new alternative as both a translation and a pedagogical tool. The volume includes an excellent introduction by Dante scholar Steven Botterill (Univ. of California, Berkeley), clear and informative notes by lifelong Dantist Anthony Oldcorn,...

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

'Salvatore Quasimodo was born-and lived-through historical tragedies which impressed his mind for ever. What one hears in his lines are the tears of mankind and its wail. Sonzogni and Dawe have captured the singular strength of Quasimodo and heard the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674593596Author Rebecca J WestFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 481g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374525316Author DanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 562g

An anthology of the work of one of Italy's finest lyric poets.Book InformationISBN 9780313257698Author Giacomo LeopardiFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

F. T. Marinetti (1876-1944) is widely known as the founder of Futurism, an early twentieth-century cultural revolution that began as a literary movement and expanded to influence painters, musicians, dramatists, architects, and graphic artists throughout...

In the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri set out to write the three volumes which make the up The Divine Comedy. Purgatorio is the second volume in this set and opens with Dante the poet picturing Dante the pilgrim coming out of the pit of hell. Similar to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513207452Author Dante AlighieriFormat HardbackPage Count 546Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint EditionsWeight(grams) 127g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625058Author Emilio VillaFormat PaperbackImprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 1025g

Translated by Brian Cole, with an introduction by Peter Dale.Parallel text, Italian / English"Brian Cole translates Cattafi's precise meditations and unexpected imagery with skill and subtlety."Translation Review:"This is a subtle book full of those...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420974614Author Dante AlighieriFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 213g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940625607Author Gabriele TintiFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Contra Mundum PressPublisher Contra Mundum PressWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787806405Author OvidFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956056969Author Giuseppe UngarettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Shanti Arts PublishingPublisher Shanti Arts PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

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