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Why Mona Lisa Smiles and Other Tales by Vasari by Paul Barolsky
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £26.49Art history as we know it would not exist without Vasari, and Barolsky shows us that something of the same claim should be made for literary history. He demonstrates the ways in which a literary... -
Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78The 'Canzoniere', a sequence of sonnets and other verse forms, were written over a period of about 40 years. They describe Petrarch's intense love for Laura, whom he first met in Avignon in 1327, and... -
Los 'Trionfi' de Petrarca comentados en catalan: una edicion de los manuscritos 534 de la biblioteca nacional de Paris y del Ateneu de Barcelona by Roxana Recio 9780807892978
Booksplease Price: £42.56This is the first complete edition of an anonymous late medieval Catalan translation of Italian writer Bernardo Illicino's commentary on Petrarch's Triumphs . Although the translation of Illicino's... -
British Autobiography in the Seventeenth Century by Paul Delany 9781138942004
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.54Originally published in 1969. In the seventeenth century neither the literary genre nor the term 'autobiography' existed but we see in seventeenth-century literature many kinds of autobiographical... -
The Book of the Courtier by Baldesar Castiglione 9781647921248
Booksplease Price: £48.99Peter Hainsworth's sparkling, eminently readable new English translation of The Book of the Courtier, Baldesar Castiglione's (1478-1529) literary and philosophical masterpiece, captures all the... -
Sexual Desire and Romantic Love in Shakespeare: 'Rich in Will' by Joan Lord Hall
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £30.23Analyses how far Shakespeare succeeds in reconciling two polarised areas in the early modern period: sexual desire, or will, and idealised approaches to romantic love Emphasizes cultural and... -
The Hawthornden Manuscripts of William Fowler and the Jacobean Court 1603-1612 Allison L. Steenson 9780367543280
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £40.94This book explores the unedited material contained in the Hawthornden manuscripts of William Fowler, a Scottish poet attached to the court of Queen Anna of Denmark between 1590 and 1612. The material... -
Sexual Desire and Romantic Love in Shakespeare: 'rich in Will' by Joan Lord Hall 9781474488563
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £86.19Beginning with how the signifier 'will' operates in Shakespearean contexts, this book, unlike other studies, deals fully with how Shakespeare's plays treat the issue of rape and sexual coercion, and... -
Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works by Francesco Petrarca
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72This entirely new translation includes Petrarch's short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux , and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the... -
The Renaissance in Italy: A History by Kenneth Bartlett
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.70The Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The outsized reputations of the best-known figures from the period-Michelangelo, Niccolo Machiavelli,... -
Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature by Valeria Finucci 9780691001005
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £56.55Drawing on a variety of psychoanalytic approaches, ten critics engage in exciting discussions of the ways the "inner life" is depicted in the Renaissance and the ways it is shown to interact with the... -
The Book of the Courtier by Baldesar Castiglione 9781647921156
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.63Peter Hainsworth's sparkling, eminently readable new English translation of The Book of the Courtier, Baldesar Castiglione's (1478-1529) literary and philosophical masterpiece, captures all the... -
Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca 9781857544510
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £11.76The "Canzoniere" is among Europe's most influential books of lyrics. The focus of this large collection is Petrarch's lifelong love for the mysterious Laura, but the themes he treats are... -
Boccaccio's Florence: Politics and People in His Life and Work by Elsa Filosa 9781487505806
RRP: £66.00Booksplease Price: £54.26Best known as the author of the Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio is a key figure in Italian literature. In the mid-fourteenth century, however, Boccaccio was also deeply involved in the politics of... -
The Renaissance in Italy: A History by Kenneth Bartlett 9781624668197
RRP: £79.99Booksplease Price: £65.89The Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The outsized reputations of the best-known figures from the period-Michelangelo, Niccolo Machiavelli,... -
Ideas of Heaven by Joan Silber
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDSet in modern-day America and France, Renaissance Italy and Boxer Rebellion China, these stories embrace whole lifetimes, much in the manner of Alice Munro and... -
RIME: The Complete Lyric Poetry Richard Lansing 9781487565138
RRP: £59.00Booksplease Price: £48.49For centuries, the sonnet tradition has captivated European writers, beginning with Giacomo da Lentini and flourishing in the hands of Dante and Petrarch. Yet while Dante's and Petrarch's lyric... -
Studies in Italian Manuscript Illumination by Jonathan Alexander 9781899828463
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £115.41The author is Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and a noted authority on Italian medieval and Renaissance manuscript illumination. His numerous publications include... -
Love in the Poetry of Francisco de Aldana - Beyond Neoplatonism by Paul Joseph Lennon
RRP: £85.00Booksplease Price: £81.75Places the warrior-poet Aldana in the appropriate poetic and philosophical context of the Spanish Golden Age and the European Renaissance. This study explores the love lyric of one of the... -
RIME: The Complete Lyric Poetry Richard Lansing 9781487565145
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £21.92For centuries, the sonnet tradition has captivated European writers, beginning with Giacomo da Lentini and flourishing in the hands of Dante and Petrarch. Yet while Dante's and Petrarch's lyric... -
The Fetters of Rhyme: Liberty and Poetic Form in Early Modern England by Rebecca M. Rush
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £32.82How rhyme became entangled with debates about the nature of liberty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetryIn his 1668 preface to Paradise Lost, John Milton rejected the use of rhyme,... -
Manuscript Poetics: Materiality and Textuality in Medieval Italian Literature by Francesco Marco Aresu 9780268206499
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £41.46Manuscript Poetics explores the interrelationship between the material features of textual artifacts and the literary aspects of the medieval Italian texts they preserve. This original study is both... -
Reading Old Books: Writing with Traditions by Peter Mack
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £31.30A wide-ranging exploration of the creative power of literary tradition, from Chaucer to the presentIn literary and cultural studies, "tradition" is a word everyone uses but few address critically. In... -
The Fetters of Rhyme: Liberty and Poetic Form in Early Modern England Rebecca M. Rush 9780691217840
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69How rhyme became entangled with debates about the nature of liberty in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English poetryIn his 1668 preface to Paradise Lost, John Milton rejected the use of rhyme,... -
On Modern Poetry by Guido Mazzoni
RRP: £34.95Booksplease Price: £29.48An incisive, unified account of modern poetry in the Western tradition, arguing that the emergence of the lyric as a dominant verse style is emblematic of the age of the individual.Between the end of... -
Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy by James Hankins
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £20.95Winner of the Helen and Howard Marraro PrizeA Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year"Perhaps the greatest study ever written of Renaissance political thought."-Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary... -
The Figure of Dante: An Essay on The Vita Nuova by Jerome Mazzaro
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £28.78Jerome Mazzaro examines Dante's Vita Nuova as an artistic correlative to what Dante conceived as an image of himself. Specifically, he explores the structure of the work in relation to medieval views... -
Hermogenes and the Renaissance: Seven Ideas of Style by Annabel M. Patterson 9780691620848
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Annabel M. Patterson offers here a reassessment of the place of Hermogenes, a Greek rhetorician of the second century A.D., in literary history. She shows that the literary men of the European... -
The Italian Renaissance: The Essential Sources by Kenneth Gouwens 9780631231653
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £34.57These primary sources open a window onto the ways that women and men in Renaissance Italy sought to communicate their beliefs, desires, fears, and hopes, both about their own lives and about the... -
Manuscript Poetics: Materiality and Textuality in Medieval Italian Literature by Francesco Marco Aresu 9780268206482
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £96.15Manuscript Poetics explores the interrelationship between the material features of textual artifacts and the literary aspects of the medieval Italian texts they preserve. This original study is both... -
Morality and the Literary Imagination: Volume 36, Religion and Public Life by Gabriel R. Ricci
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £44.79In a letter to Boccaccio, Petrarch extolled the virtue of poetry and letters for promoting an understanding of both human nature and morals. The letter was designed to console him after hearing a... -
Essential Shakespeare: The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation Dr. Pamela Bickley 9781350444263
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £16.87Addressing the transition from pre-university to undergraduate Shakespeare studies, this introductory critical guide examines 16 key plays. Each chapter focuses on modern theoretical methods, close... -
Shakespeare's Living Art by Rosalie Littell Colie 9780691618616
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.55In this, her last book, Rosalie L. Colie suggests that by linking "forms"--verse forms, devices, motives, themes, conventions, genres--to the culture from which a writer springs and to his selection... -
Forming Sleep: Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance by Nancy L. Simpson-Younger
RRP: £87.99Booksplease Price: £83.36Forming Sleep asks how biocultural and literary dynamics act together to shape conceptions of sleep states in the early modern period. Engaging with poetry, drama, and prose largely written in... -
Forming Sleep: Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance by Nancy L. Simpson-Younger 9780271086125
RRP: £23.95Booksplease Price: £23.05Forming Sleep asks how biocultural and literary dynamics act together to shape conceptions of sleep states in the early modern period. Engaging with poetry, drama, and prose largely written in... -
Metamorphic Verse: The Elizabethan Minor Epic by Clark Hulse 9780691656212
RRP: £138.00Booksplease Price: £109.30To Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, and other Elizabethans, the minor epic was an important medium for poetic experimentation, but today, too often separated from the culture that bore it, it is not... -
Metamorphic Verse: The Elizabethan Minor Epic by Clark Hulse 9780691614687
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £40.43To Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, and other Elizabethans, the minor epic was an important medium for poetic experimentation, but today, too often separated from the culture that bore it, it is not... -
Reading Franz Liszt: Revealing the Poetry behind the Piano Music by Paul Roberts 9781538143346
Booksplease Price: £31.87A look beyond the virtuosity of Romanticism's piano superstar.Pianist Paul Roberts recasts Franz Liszt as a composer of poetic feeling rather than just a purveyor of technical brilliance. Reading... -
Rhetorical Renaissance: The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks by Kathy Eden 9780226821269
Booksplease Price: £21.05Kathy Eden reveals the unexplored classical rhetorical theory at the heart of iconic Renaissance literary works. Kathy Eden explores the intersection of early modern literary theory and practice... -
The Wisdom of the Renaissance by Michael Kellogg
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.74This engaging survey of important works spanning the lives of Petrarch (1304-1374) to Shakespeare (1564-1616) reveals the depth of thought and the diversity of expression that characterized the...