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Love Poems of Catullus by Gaius Valerius Catullus 9780811237499
RRP: £11.50Booksplease Price: £8.73Catullus was undoubtedly one of the most intimate, witty, vivid, and tender poets of antiquity. Perhaps his greatest gift was his ability to truthfully reveal the fleeting instants of his bare... -
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
Booksplease Price: £82.70'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... -
Translation: A Very Short Introduction by Matthew Reynolds
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.37Translation is everywhere, and matters to everybody. Translation doesn't only give us foreign news, dubbed films and instructions for using the microwave: without it, there would be no world... -
In Our Image and Likeness: Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanist Thought by Charles Trinkaus 9780268189501
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £86.99Now combined into one volume. In this massive, meticulously researched work Trinkaus makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Italian humanists and the Christian Renaissance in Italy. ... -
Performing Homer: The Voyage of Ulysses from Epic to Opera by Wendy Heller
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08The epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey, attributed to Homer, are among the oldest surviving works of literature derived from oral performance. Deeply embedded in these works is the notion that they... -
Reviving Cicero in Drama: From the Ancient World to the Modern Stage by Gesine Manuwald 9781350157897
Booksplease Price: £35.46The influence of Cicero is everywhere to be found. His rhetorical and philosophical writings have made an inescapable impact on the history of western culture, impressing figures such as Augustine,... -
The Journey to Wisdom: Self-Education in Patristic and Medieval Literature by Paul A. Olson
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £37.08The Journey to Wisdom addresses a broad array of topics in education, the natural world, and medieval intellectual history. The book examines a philosophy of education that originated with the... -
The Life and Writings of Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza by Luisa De Carvajal Y M
Booksplease Price: £40.19Rejecting marriage and the convent, the Spanish noblewoman, poet, and religious activist Luisa de Carvajal y Mendoza ( Jaraicejo 1566-London 1614) led an uncommon life of adventure and spiritual... -
An Introduction to Middle English Lyrics William A. Quinn 9780813079431
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £58.10Understanding a medieval poetry genre through modern translations, commentary, and the role of performance Middle English lyrics are anonymous short poems that were composed between the twelfth and... -
Time and the Crystal: Studies in Dante's Rime petrose by Robert M. Durling 9780520303553
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £38.47The Rime petrose, Dante's powerful lyrics about a woman as beautiful and as hard as a precious stone, are generally acknowledged to be an important moment in his stylistic development. In this... -
Fiore in Context, The: Dante, France, Tuscany by Zygmunt G. Bara'nski 9780268009953
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £25.18The second volume in the original William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies, The Fiore in Context: Dante, France, Tuscany is the record of a milestone in the study of the Fiore, and... -
'Troilus and Criseyde': A Reader's Guide by Jenni Nuttall
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £24.70'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... -
In Our Image and Likeness: Humanity and Divinity in Italian Humanist Thought by Charles Trinkaus 9780268011734
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.38"In this massive, meticulously researched work Trinkaus makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Italian humanists and the Christian Renaissance in Italy. . . . The author argues... -
The A to Z of the Renaissance by Charles G. Nauert 9780810853935
Booksplease Price: £45.06Few periods have given civilization such a strong impulse as the Renaissance, which started in Italy and then spread to the rest of Europe. During its brief epoch, most vigorously from the fourteen... -
The Defeat of a Renaissance Intellectual: Selected Writings of Francesco Guicciardini by Francesco Guicciardini 9780271083490
Booksplease Price: £36.28A papal advisor and sixteenth-century power broker, Francesco Guicciardini wrote voluminously throughout his time in service to the Medici. The texts in this volume chart his career chronologically,... -
Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance by Aldo Scaglione 9780520371118
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £72.96Knights at Court is a grand tour and survey of manners, manhood, and court life in the Middle Ages, like no other in print. Composed on an epic canvas, this authoritative work traces the development... -
Knights at Court: Courtliness, Chivalry, and Courtesy from Ottonian Germany to the Italian Renaissance by Aldo Scaglione 9780520333604
RRP: £46.00Booksplease Price: £41.62Knights at Court is a grand tour and survey of manners, manhood, and court life in the Middle Ages, like no other in print. Composed on an epic canvas, this authoritative work traces the development... -
Architrenius by Johannes De Hauvilla
RRP: £29.95Booksplease Price: £25.90Architrenius, a satirical allegory in dactylic hexameters completed in 1184 by the Norman poet Johannes de Hauvilla, follows the journey of its eponymous protagonist, the "arch-weeper," who stands in... -
Reading Shakespeare's Poetry by D Callaghan
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.02Reading Shakespeare's Poetry A lively exploration of Shakespeare's poems and how they speak to readers Reading Shakespeare's Poetry presents a fresh interpretation of Shakespeare's non-dramatic... -
Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry: Lascivious Poets by Linda Grant
Booksplease Price: £35.47How did Latin erotic elegy influence and shape sixteenth-century English love poetry? Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book offers detailed readings of poetry with close attention to the... -
Three Plays: Six Characters in Search of an Author, Henry IV, The Mountain Giants by Luigi Pirandello
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73SIX CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR * HENRY IV * THE MOUNTAIN GIANTS Pirandello ranks with Strindberg, Brecht, and Beckett as a seminal figure in modern drama. Innovative and influential, he... -
Complete Poems – A Bilingual Edition by Veronica Gambara
Booksplease Price: £38.60Veronica 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... -
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The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in English Renaissance Narrative Poetry by Marshall Grossman 9780822321019 [USED COPY]
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £9.20In The Story of All Things Marshall Grossman analyzes the influence of major cultural developments, as well as significant events in the lives of Renaissance poets, to show how specific narratives... -
Tales from the Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation.This hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories... -
Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry: Lascivious Poets by Linda Grant 9781108493864
Booksplease Price: £95.49How did Latin erotic elegy influence and shape sixteenth-century English love poetry? Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book offers detailed readings of poetry with close attention to the... -
Running in Place: Scenes from the South of France by Nicholas Delbanco 9780802138095
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.77Provence: Its magnificent landscape has inspired artists and writers for centuries. In this stunning evocation of Provencal culture and history, the critically lauded novelist and essayist Nicholas... -
The Satires of Horace by Horace 9780812222098
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The Roman philosopher and dramatic critic Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-3 B.C.), known in English as Horace, was also the most famous lyric poet of his age. Written in the troubled decade ending with... -
The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin by Sarah Knight 9780190886998
Booksplease Price: £53.72From the dawn of the early modern period around 1400 until the eighteenth century, Latin was still the European language and its influence extended as far as Asia and the Americas. At the same time,... -
The Swan of the Well by Titia Brongersma by Eric Miller
RRP: £91.00Booksplease Price: £71.30Acclaimed as Sappho reborn by the circle of humanist intellectuals centred around Groningen University in the Netherlands, the Dutch poet Titia Brongersma published her only book, The Swan of the... -
England and Bohemia in the Age of Chaucer by Professor Peter Brown 9781843845799
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.08New essays examining Bohemia as a key European context for understanding Chaucer's poetry. Chaucer never went to Bohemia but Bohemia came to him when, in 1382, King Richard II of England married... -
Style in Theory: Between Literature and Philosophy by Ivan Callus 9781441128935
Booksplease Price: £46.62'What, in theory, is style? How has style been rethought in literary theory?'Drawing together leading academics working within and across the disciplines of English, philosophy, literary theory, and... -
Cavalcanty by Peter Hughes 9781784103880
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.61The thirteenth-century Tuscan poet Guido Cavalcanti helped to create a new poetry that belonged to the city rather than the court, and through his use of Tuscan vernacular gave an extraordinary... -
Medici Gardens: From Making to Design by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £49.57Medici Gardens: From Making to Design challenges the common assumption that such gardens as Trebbio, Cafaggiolo, Careggi, and Fiesole were the products of an established design practice whereby one... -
The Choice of Odysseus: Homeric Ethics in Renaissance Epic and Opera by Dr Sarah Van der Laan 9780198778295
Booksplease Price: £104.74The Choice of Odysseus demonstrates how the Odyssey provided Renaissance authors and readers with a poetic ethics-tools for living developed in poetry-to navigate the challenges of their age. As they... -
The Story of All Things: Writing the Self in English Renaissance Narrative Poetry by Marshall Grossman 9780822321170
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £19.32In The Story of All Things Marshall Grossman analyzes the influence of major cultural developments, as well as significant events in the lives of Renaissance poets, to show how specific narratives... -
Dante's Education: Latin Schoolbooks and Vernacular Poetics Filippo Gianferrari 9780198881766
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.22In fourteenth-century Italy, literacy became accessible to a significantly larger portion of the lay population (allegedly between 60 and 80 percent in Florence) and provided a crucial means for the... -
The Feminist Encyclopedia of Italian Literature by Rinaldina Russell 9780313294358
Booksplease Price: £66.89Over the last 20 years, there has been an increasing interest in feminist views of the Italian literary tradition. While feminist theory and methodology have been accepted by the academic community... -
Fiore in Context, The: Dante, France, Tuscany by Patrick Boyde 9780268048525
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £71.67The second volume in the original William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies, The Fiore in Context: Dante, France, Tuscany is the record of a milestone in the study of the Fiore, and... -
The Art, Science, and Technology of Medieval Travel by Robert Bork 9781138259874
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84This sixth volume in the AVISTA series considers "The Art, Science, and Technology of Medieval Travel". In recent years, scholarship has increasingly emphasized the importance of travel and...