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Erasmus, Man of Letters: The Construction of Charisma in Print - Updated Edition by Lisa Jardine 9780691165691
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $39.00The name Erasmus of Rotterdam conjures up a golden age of scholarly integrity and the disinterested pursuit of knowledge, when learning could command public admiration without the need for authorial... -
Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life by Robert E. Lerner 9780691172828
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $82.38This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895-1963), an influential and controversial German-American intellectual whose colorful and dramatic life intersected with many of the... -
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $54.62From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than... -
Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice by Edward Muir
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $93.56Venice's reputation for political stability and a strong, balanced republican government holds a prominent place in European political theory. Edward Muir traces the origins and development of this... -
Studies in Greek Philosophy, Volume II: Socrates, Plato, and Their Tradition by Gregory Vlastos
RRP: $130.20Booksplease Price: $108.93Gregory Vlastos (1907-1991) was one of the twentieth century's most influential scholars of ancient philosophy. Over a span of more than fifty years, he published essays and book reviews that... -
Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance by Johan Huizinga
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $97.73This collection by the distinguished Dutch historian Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) reflects the theme of its key essay, The Task of Cultural History," throughout its pages. Huizinga's conception of... -
Machiavelli's God by Maurizio Viroli
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $56.13To many readers of The Prince, Machiavelli appears to be deeply un-Christian or even anti-Christian, a cynic who thinks rulers should use religion only to keep their subjects in check. But in... -
The Grace of the Italian Renaissance by Ita Mac Carthy
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.77How grace shaped the Renaissance in Italy"Grace" emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. The Grace of the Italian Renaissance explores how it conveys and connects... -
The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History by Alice Crawford
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $35.81From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the imagination. The Meaning of the Library is a generously illustrated examination of... -
Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile by David M. Bethea 9780691605586
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $88.12Joseph Brodsky, one of the most prominent contemporary American poets, is also among the finest living poets in the Russian language. Nevertheless, his poetry and the crucial bilingual dimension of... -
Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting by Malcolm Bull 9780691138848
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $56.13Can painting transform philosophy? In Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded by... -
Print Culture in Renaissance Italy: The Editor and the Vernacular Text, 1470-1600 by Brian Richardson 9780521420327
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $181.52The emergence of print in late fifteenth-century Italy gave a crucial new importance to the editors of texts, who determined the form in which texts from the Middle Ages would be read, and who could... -
Print Culture in Renaissance Italy: The Editor and the Vernacular Text, 1470-1600 by Brian Richardson 9780521893022
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $82.34The emergence of print in late fifteenth-century Italy gave a crucial new importance to the editors of texts, who determined the form in which texts from the Middle Ages would be read, and who could... -
Italian Renaissance, The: The Origins of Intellectual and Artistic Change Before the Reformation John Stephens 9780582493377
RRP: $128.08Booksplease Price: $126.69In this fascinating study, John Stephens inteprets the significance of the immense cultural change which took place in Italy from the time of Petrarch to the Reformation, and considers its wider... -
Vision, Race, and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World by Deborah Poole
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $81.75Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian, and U.S. archives, Deborah Poole explores the role visual images and technologies have played in shaping modern... -
Dante's Poets: Textuality and Truth in the COMEDY Teodolinda Barolini 9780691612089
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $85.53By systematically analyzing Dante's attitudes toward the poets who appear throughout his texts, Teodolinda Barolini examines his beliefs about the limits and purposes of textuality and, most... -
Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life by Robert E. Lerner 9780691183022
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $48.13The first complete biography of an influential historian whose dramatic life intersected with many great events and thinkers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first complete biography of Ernst... -
The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis by Nikos Kazantzakis 9780691203171
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $131.38The life of Nikos Kazantzakis-the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ-was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly... -
Chaucerian Theatricality by John M. Ganim 9780691601434
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $56.13Whereas modern criticism has emphasized the unity and sense of permanence in The Canterbury Tales, John Ganim alerts us to a dialectically opposing dimension that Chaucer's poetics shares with the... -
Resolved Soul: A Study of Marvell's Major Poems by Ann E. Berthoff 9780691621319
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $76.92Intellectual power and subtlety are as important to a definition of Marvell's style as grace of feeling, says the author of this highly original study, which illuminates the philosophical character... -
Paradoxia Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox by Rosalie Littell Colie 9780691623863
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $136.73Paradoxia Epidemica is a broad-ranging critical study of Renaissance thought, showing how the greatest writers of the period from Erasmus and Rabelais to Donne, Milton, and Shakespeare made conscious... -
Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515 by John M. Najemy 9780691655222
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $109.56Between Friends offers the first extended close reading of the most famous epistolary dialogue of the Renaissance, the letters exchanged from 1513 to 1515 by Niccolo Machiavelli and Francesco Vettori... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century Christopher Prendergast 9780691271392
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsThis book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history... -
Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures by Leonard Barkan 9780691141831
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $56.13Why do painters sometimes wish they were poets--and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters? What happens when Rembrandt spells out Hebrew in the sky or Poussin spells out Latin on a... -
Marianne Moore: The Poet's Advance by Laurence Stapleton 9780691605692
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $81.75This book provides a full-scale interpretation of Marianne Moore's poetry and prose, starting with her early experiments and exploring the range and variety of her artistic achievement. It portrays... -
Sorrow and Consolation in Italian Humanism by George W. McClure 9780691606699
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $84.90George McClure offers here a far-reaching analysis of the role of consolation in Italian Renaissance culture, showing how the humanists' interest in despair, and their effort to open up this realm in... -
The War Against Poetry by Russell A. Fraser 9780691620794
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $60.94The attack on poetry and the theater which occurred in England during the 16th and 17th centuries has been the subject of numerous scholarly investigations. This "war against poetry" was, in... -
Themes and Variations in Shakespeare's Sonnets J B Leishman 9780415612241
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $95.82First published in 1961. This study analyses Shakespeare's treatment of the universal themes of Beauty, Love and Time. He compares Shakespeare with other great poets and sonnet writers - Pindar,... -
Aesthetic and Critical Theory of John Ruskin by George P. Landow 9780691620671
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $133.54This book traces the sources and development of Ruskin's aesthetic and critical theories. In his attempt to skirt the danger of excessive emotion and association in art, Ruskin's struggle with the... -
Essays on English and American Literature by Leo Spitzer 9780691622637
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $87.53The late Leo Spitzer enjoyed a reputation as one of the twentieth century's outstanding philologists and linguists. His writings in the field of the romance languages and of comparative philology... -
What Is World Literature? by David Damrosch 9780691049861
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $76.92World literature was long defined in North America as an established canon of European masterpieces, but an emerging global perspective has challenged both this European focus and the very category... -
Physiognomy in the European Novel: Faces and Fortunes by Graeme Tytler 9780691614632
RRP: $136.50Booksplease Price: $114.35After discussing Lavater's place in eighteenth-century German letters and his importance in the history of Western physiognomy, Dr. Tytler examines the literary portrait in the modern novel and... -
Humanism and Scholasticism in Late Medieval Germany by James H. Overfield 9780691655338
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $104.14This analysis of the intellectual life of German universities in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries demonstrates that humanist-scholastic relations were not the titanic struggles depicted in... -
Commentary on Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript: With a new introduction by Niels Thulstrup 9780691612478
RRP: $130.20Booksplease Price: $109.56In the first comprehensive commentary on Soren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript the eminent Kierkegaard specialist Niels Thulstrup clarifies the book's intricate allusions to the... -
The World at Play in Boccaccio's Decameron by Giuseppe Mazzotta 9780691610870
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $81.75Giuseppe Mazzotta provides both a powerful framework for reading the Decameron and an important contribution to medieval and contemporary debates in esthetics Originally published in 1986. The... -
Going Abroad: European Travel in Nineteenth-Century American Culture by William W. Stowe 9780691600208
RRP: $88.20Booksplease Price: $76.92In a nation struggling to establish its own identity, all kinds of Americans, for all kinds of reasons, were enchanted with Europe. A European trip, whether extravagant or modest, could serve social... -
Tommaso Campanella and the Transformation of the World by John M. Headley 9780691655758
RRP: $147.00Booksplease Price: $125.54Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) is one of the most fascinating, if hitherto inaccessible, intellectuals of the Italian Renaissance. His work ranges across many of the intellectual, ecclesiastical, and... -
Domenico Scarlatti by Ralph Kirkpatrick
RRP: $151.20Booksplease Price: $130.33Again available in paperback, this definitive work on the genius of Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) is the result of twelve years of devoted effort by America's foremost harpsichordist and one of the... -
Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 1550-1700: Volume 4: Mary Wroth by Clare R. Kinney
Booksplease Price: $192.11The last twenty-five years have seen exciting new developments in scholarly work on Lady Mary Wroth, whose Urania and Pamphilia to Amphilanthus constitute the first romance and the first sonnet... -
Politics and Culture in Renaissance Naples by Jerry H. Bentley
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $88.12Examining the cultural history of Renaissance Naples with an emphasis on humanism, the author also evaluates Naples in the broader context of fifteenth-century Italy and Renaissance Europe in general...