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Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing: Juan de Castellanos's Elegies of Illustrious Men of the Indies by Emiro Martinez-Osorio 9781611487183
Booksplease Price: £75.81Authority, Piracy, and Captivity in Colonial Spanish American Writing examines the intricate bond between poetry and history writing that shaped the theory and practice of empire in early colonial... -
Dinner Pieces: Volume 2 Leon Battista Alberti 9780674295759
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.60An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original "Renaissance man."Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. His extraordinary range... -
Dinner Pieces: Volume 1 Leon Battista Alberti 9780674295742
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.60An innovative collection of comedic stories by the original "Renaissance man."Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. His extraordinary range... -
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £12.38The Decameron (subtitle: Prencipe Galeotto) is a collection of 100 novellas by Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio, probably begun in 1350 and finished in 1353. It is a medieval allegorical work best... -
De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Booksplease Price: £25.31The ethics of a statesman.Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106-43 BC), Roman lawyer, orator, politician and philosopher, of whom we know more than of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw... -
Vita Nuova: Dual Language by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.05The Vita Nuova, with its unusual blend of prose and poetry, is universally recognized as Dante's early masterpiece and provides an indispensable prequel to The Divine Comedy. Set in... -
In Dante's Wake: Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition by John Freccero 9780823264278
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £76.70Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the Divine Comedy realizes he must set his sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port... -
Ideas of Authorship in the English and Scottish Dream Vision: Skelton, Dunbar, Hawes, Douglas Dr Laurie Atkinson 9781843846925
RRP: £65.00Booksplease Price: £63.24An investigation of English and Scottish dream visions written on the cusp of the "Renaissance", teasing out distinctive ideas of authorship which informed their design. The fifteenth and... -
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Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman by Frances Stonor Saunders 9780571219087 [USED COPY]
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £2.99The second son of a minor Essex landowner, John Hawkwood chose to head south in 1360 after serving as a captain in the Black Prince's wars against France. He and other freebooters beseiged the Pope... -
Folgore Da San Gimignano and His Followers: The Complete Poems by Fabian Alfie
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.55This translation brings the complete works of three minor but important Italian poets - Dante's contemporaries at the turn of the 14th century - to English speakers for the very first time. Taken... -
Blindness and Therapy in Late Medieval French and Italian Poetry by Julie Singer
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £82.05An examination of the ways in which late medieval lyric poetry can be seen to engage with contemporary medical theory. This book argues that late medieval love poets, from Petrarch to Machaut and... -
Dante and Renaissance Florence by Simon A. Gilson 9780521841658
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99Simon Gilson explores Dante's reception in his native Florence between 1350 and 1481. He traces the development of Florentine civic culture and the interconnections between Dante's principal... -
In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Humanism from Lovato to Bruni by Ronald Witt 9780391042025
Booksplease Price: £83.39This monograph demonstrates why humanism began in Italy in the mid-thirteenth century. It considers Petrarch a third generation humanist, who christianized a secular movement. The analysis traces the... -
The Complete Poetry of Giacomo da Lentini by Giacomo da Lentini 9781487522865
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46This volume presents the first translation in English of the complete poetry of Giacomo da Lentini, the first major lyric poet of the Italian vernacular. He was the leading exponent of the Sicilian... -
Dante and Renaissance Florence by Simon A. Gilson 9780521100182
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.44Simon Gilson explores Dante's reception in his native Florence between 1350 and 1481. He traces the development of Florentine civic culture and the interconnections between Dante's principal... -
Sublime Beauty: Raphael's Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn by 9781907804731
Booksplease Price: £18.45Celebrating one of Raphael's most beguiling and enigmatic paintings, his Portrait of a Lady with a Unicorn of 1505-6, from the Galleria Borghese in Rome, this fully illustrated volume presents... -
A Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian Renaissance by Albert Russell Ascoli 9780823234295
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £31.75Focusing on major authors and problems from the Italian fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, from Petrarch and Boccaccio to Machiavelli, Ariosto and Tasso, A Local Habitation and a Name examines the... -
Parlar cantando: The practice of reciting verses in Italy from 1300 to 1600 by Elena Abramov van Rijk 9783039116706
RRP: £82.95Booksplease Price: £73.74This book is a pioneering attempt to explore the fascinating and hardly known realm of reciting poetry in medieval and Renaissance Italy. The study of more than 50 treatises on both music and poetry,... -
The Complete Poetry of Giacomo da Lentini by Giacomo da Lentini 9781487503765
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £39.50This volume presents the first translation in English of the complete poetry of Giacomo da Lentini, the first major lyric poet of the Italian vernacular. He was the leading exponent of the Sicilian... -
Italian Renaissance Tales by Anthony Mortimer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.68'Thus she was decapitated, and this was the end to which she was brought by her unbridled lusts.' For over two centuries after Boccaccio's groundbreaking Decameron, the Italian novella exercised a... -
The Lucretian Renaissance: Philology and the Afterlife of Tradition Gerard Passannante 9780226648491
Booksplease Price: £58.63With "The Lucretian Renaissance", Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient... -
Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy by Douglas Biow 9780226051710
Booksplease Price: £60.97In this book, Douglas Biow traces the role that humanists played in the development of professions and professionalism in Renaissance Italy, and vice versa. For instance, humanists were initially... -
The Author's Effects: On Writer's House Museums by Nicola J. Watson
Booksplease Price: £46.30The Author's Effects: On the Writer's House Museum is the first book to describe how the writer's house museum came into being as a widespread cultural phenomenon across Britain, Europe, and North... -
The Avignon Papacy Contested: An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena by Unn Falkeid
RRP: £47.95Booksplease Price: £39.86The Avignon papacy (1309-1377) represented the zenith of papal power in Europe. The Roman curia's move to southern France enlarged its bureaucracy, centralized its authority, and initiated closer... -
Constituting Old Age in Early Modern English Literature, from Queen Elizabeth to 'King Lear' by Christopher Martin 9781558499737
Booksplease Price: £32.94How did Shakespeare and his contemporaries, whose works mark the last quarter century of Elizabeth I's reign as one of the richest moments in all of English literature, regard and represent old age?... -
Movement in Renaissance Literature: Exploring Kinesic Intelligence by Kathryn Banks 9783319691992
Booksplease Price: £100.15This book investigates how writers and readers of Renaissance literature deployed 'kinesic intelligence', a combination of pre-reflective bodily response and reflective interpretation. Through... -
Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality Goran Stanivukovic (Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Canada) 9781350084476
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.68Now available in paperback, Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama... -
The Latin Eclogues by Giovanni Boccaccio 9780801895623
Booksplease Price: £55.10Giovanni Boccaccio is famous for his masterpiece The Decameron, but his Latin Eclogues are relatively unknown. David R. Slavitt's English translation makes these important pieces accessible to a... -
Buon Giorno, Arezzo: A Postcard from Tuscany by Suzette R Grillot 9780806152806
Booksplease Price: £28.74In the heart of Tuscany stands the city of Arezzo, beckoning those who would know more of the real Italy. A spectacular medieval town of 100,000 residents, Arezzo invites travelers to see its sights... -
Against the Jews and the Gentiles: Books I Iv by Giannozzo Manetti
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.90Giannozzo Manetti (1396-1459) was a celebrated humanist orator, historian, philosopher, and scholar of the early Renaissance. Son of a wealthy Florentine merchant, he participated actively in the... -
Complete Poems: Dual Language by Guido Cavalcanti 9781847492944
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.73Dante's best friend and a major exponent of the dolce stil novo, Guido Cavalcanti has had a lasting influence upon Italian poetry and is best known to English readers through the essays, translations... -
With This Night by Leah Goldberg
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.41When she arrived in Palestine in 1935 at the age of twenty-four, Leah Goldberg was already known as a significant emerging poet in contemporary Hebrew literature. Today, mention of her name is apt to... -
On Obligations: De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99On Obligations (De officiis) was written by Cicero in late 44 BC after the assassination of Julius Caesar to provide principles of behaviour for aspiring politicians. It explores the apparent... -
Europe in British Literature and Culture by Petra Rau 9781009425490
Booksplease Price: £90.87How has Europe shaped British literature and culture - and vice versa - since the Middle Ages? This volume offers nuanced answers to this question. From the High Renaissance to haute cuisine, from... -
De pratica seu arte tripudii: `On the Practice or Art of Dancing' by Guglielmo Ebreo of Pesaro 9780198165743
Booksplease Price: £98.93Fifteenth-century Italy produced the earliest known treatises on the dance. Guglielmo Ebreo, an eminent Jewish dancing master, dedicated his `On the Practice or Art of Dancing' to the future Sforza... -
Ibn Miskawayh, the Soul, and the Pursuit of Happiness: The Truly Happy Sage by John Peter Radez
Booksplease Price: £86.43Ibn Miskawayh, the Soul, and the Pursuit of Happiness explores the moral philosophy and context of Ibn Miskawayh (932-1030), an advocate of the intellectually cultivated life with a strong religious... -
My Life by 9780199555314
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.07'You should know that men like Benvenuto, unique in their profession, need not be subject to the law.' Thus spoke Pope Paul III on learning that Cellini had murdered a fellow artist, so great was... -
Atlas's Bones: The African Foundations of Europe D. Vance Smith 9780226830308
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £26.68A major new look at Africa's influence on European culture and how colonization remade Africa in the image of a medieval Europe. Virgil. Chaucer. Petrarch. These names resonate with many as... -
The Year: A Novel Tomas Espedal 9780857428509
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.85In contemporary Norwegian fiction, Tomas Espedal's work stands out as uniquely bound up with the author's personal experiences. His first book, Tramp, introduced us to the wanderer Tomas; Against Art... -
'Troilus and Criseyde': A Reader's Guide by Jenni Nuttall 9780521191449
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.63'Troilus and Criseyde', Geoffrey Chaucer's most substantial completed work, is a long historical romance; its famous tale of love and betrayal in the Trojan War later inspired William Shakespeare...