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The Wisdom of the Renaissance by Michael Kellogg
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.29This 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... -
Shakespeare's Living Art by Rosalie Littell Colie 9780691618616
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.84In 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... -
Studies in Early Italian Printing by Dennis E. Rhodes 9780907132028
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.44This selection of 57 studies by Dr. D. E. Rhodes focuses on the history of printing in Italy from the earliest printers of the 15th century to the flourishing of regional presses in the 16th and 17th... -
Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation by Joanna H. Drell
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.88Medieval Italy gathers together an unparalleled selection of newly translated primary sources from the central and later Middle Ages, a period during which Italy was famous for its diverse cultural... -
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... -
Vida u obra de Petrarca: Volumen I by Francisco Rico 9780807891605
Booksplease Price: £28.15With Vida u Obra de Petrarca, Dr. Francisco Rico questions whether the traditional biography of Petrarch is a product of the real life of the author, or from the critical understanding of his work... -
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... -
Rhetorical Renaissance: The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks by Kathy Eden
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £73.55Kathy 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... -
Forming Sleep: Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance by Nancy L. Simpson-Younger
RRP: £87.99Booksplease Price: £79.29Forming 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... -
The Theological Origins of Modernity by Michael Allen Gillespie
Booksplease Price: £24.80Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, Michael Allen Gillespie reveals in this landmark study that modernity is much less secular than conventional wisdom suggests. Taking as his... -
Literary Language and Its Public in Late Latin Antiquity and in the Middle Ages by Erich Auerbach
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.73In this, his final book, Erich Auerbach writes, "My purpose is always to write history." Tracing the transformations of classical Latin rhetoric from late antiquity to the modern era, he explores... -
Anna Hume: Printed Writings 1641-1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 8 by Thomas P. Roche
Booksplease Price: £119.06Little is known of Anna Hume except as the translator of the first three of Petrach's Trionfi and also as the daughter of David Hume of Godscroft whose History of the Houses of Douglas and Angus she... -
Painting in the Age of Giotto: A Historical Reevaluation by Hayden B.J. Maginnis 9780271020914
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.67Painting in the Age of Giotto is a revisionist account of central Italian painting in the period 1260 to 1370. The study is the first to discuss Giorgio Vasari's account of the "first age" of the... -
Draft of a Letter by James Longenbach
Booksplease Price: £17.69From the Second Draft: What other people learn From birth, Betrayal, I learned late. My soul perched On an olive branch Combing itself, Waving its plumes. I said Being mortal, I aspire to Mortal... -
Complete Poetry and Prose: A Bilingual Edition by Louise Labe 9780226467146
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30Louise Labe (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labe played off the Petrarchan male... -
A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeare’s Sonnets Roland Weidle 9781350382831
Booksplease Price: £88.08This book provides readers with the tools to unravel the complexities of one of the most difficult sonnet sequences, introducing them to the literary tradition, themes, stylistic features and... -
Boccaccio: The Fragility of Genius Marco Santagata 9780226820941
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.44A comprehensive biography of the celebrated author of the Decameron, a medieval masterpiece written in early Italian. Boccaccio (1313-75) stands with... -
Sonnets for Michelangelo: A Bilingual Edition by Vittoria Colonna 9780226113913
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30The most published and lauded woman writer of early sixteenth-century Italy, Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) in effect defined what was the "acceptable" face of female authorship for her time. Hailed by... -
The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy by Kathy Eden
Booksplease Price: £31.37In 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from Cicero to his best friend Atticus, he discovered an intimate Cicero, a man very different from either the well-known orator of the... -
Princes of the Renaissance by Mary Hollingsworth 9781803281261
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.78A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons. 'Exceptionally sumptuous... This vivid history brings to life the vices... -
The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy by Kathy Eden 9780226184623
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £77.30In 1345, when Petrarch recovered a lost collection of letters from Cicero to his best friend, Atticus, he discovered an intimate Cicero, a man very different from either the well-known orator of the... -
Sonnets for Michelangelo by Vittoria Colonna
Booksplease Price: £30.43The most published and lauded woman writer of early sixteenth-century Italy, Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547) in effect defined what was the "acceptable" face of female authorship for her time. Hailed by... -
A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeare’s Sonnets Roland Weidle 9781350382879
Booksplease Price: £30.54This book provides readers with the tools to unravel the complexities of one of the most difficult sonnet sequences, introducing them to the literary tradition, themes, stylistic features and... -
The Revolution of Cola Di Rienzo by Ronald G Musto 9780934977005
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934977005Author Francesco PetrarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprin -
Complete Poetry and Prose: A Bilingual Edition by Louise Labe
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.99Louise Labe (1522-66) remains one of the most important and influential women writers of the Renaissance. Best known for her exquisite collection of love sonnets, Labe played off the Petrarchan male... -
The Medieval invention of Travel by Shayne Aaron Legassie
Booksplease Price: £25.74Over the course of the Middle Ages, the economies of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa became more closely integrated, fostering the international and intercontinental journeys of merchants,... -
Selected Poetry and Prose: A Bilingual Edition by Chiara Matraini
Booksplease Price: £33.24Chiara Matraini (1515-1604) was a member of the great flowering of poetic imitators and innovators in the Italian literary heritage begun by Petrarch, cultivated later by the lyric poet Pietro Bembo,... -
The Renaissance Philosophy of Man by Ernst Cassirer
Booksplease Price: £24.80Despite our admiration for Renaissance achievement in the arts and sciences, in literature and classical learning, the rich and diversified philosophical thought of the period remains largely unknown... -
How to Read a Poem: Seven Steps Thomas H. Ford 9780367695040
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19How to Read a Poem is an introduction to creative reading, the art of coming up with something to say about a text. It presents a new method for learning and teaching the skills of poetic... -
Selected Sonnets by Luis de Camoes
Booksplease Price: £24.80The most important writer in Portuguese history and one of the preeminent European poets of the early modern era, Luis de Camoes (1524-80) has been ranked as a sonneteer on par with Petrarch, Dante,... -
Leopardi's Nymphs: Grace, Melancholy, and the Uncanny by Fabio A. Camilletti 9780367601010
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08The author gives a ground-breaking interpretation of the way Leopardi negotiates the original fracture between poetry and philosophy that characterizes Western culture. He argues that the nymph can... -
Boccaccio: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works by 9780226079189
Booksplease Price: £58.14Long celebrated as one of "the Three Crowns" of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and innovative writings - which range beyond the... -
Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis by Rachel Eisendrath
Booksplease Price: £26.68We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a "mental space" between ourselves and the objects of our investigation, separating internal and... -
Theory as Practice: Ethical Inquiry in the Renaissance by Nancy S. Struever 9780226777429
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £54.38There is a tendency in modern scholarship to describe the Renaissance Humanists merely as readers-as interpreters happily absorbed within the bounds of their chosen classical texts. In Theory as... -
Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis by Rachel Eisendrath 9780226516585
Booksplease Price: £91.56We have become used to looking at art from a stance of detachment. In order to be objective, we create a "mental space" between ourselves and the objects of our investigation, separating internal and... -
The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt 9780486475974
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.84This authoritative study by a distinguished scholar presents a brilliant panorama of Italian Renaissance life, explaining how and why the period constituted a cultural revolution. It traces the... -
The Dream of Bernat Metge by Richard Vernier
Booksplease Price: £46.49The Dream of Bernat Metge is the first English translation of Lo Somni, a prose dialogue written around 1397 by the Catalan humanist Bernat Metge (?1340-1413). It stands as a noteworthy example of... -
Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England by Ramie Targoff
Booksplease Price: £38.42For Dante and Petrarch, posthumous love was a powerful conviction. Like many of their contemporaries, both poets envisioned their encounters with their beloved in heaven-Dante with Beatrice, Petrarch... -
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The Shadow of Dante in French Renaissance Lyric: Sceve's "Delie" by Alison Baird Lovell 9781501517976
RRP: £101.50Booksplease Price: £69.18This book presents an original interpretation of Maurice Sceve's lyric sequence Delie, object de plus haulte vertu (Lyon, 1544) in light of the Vita nova, Commedia [Divine Comedy], and other works of... -
Audience and Reception in the Early Modern Period John R. Decker (Pratt Institute, USA) 9780367676391
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Early modern audiences, readerships, and viewerships were not homogenous. Differences in status, education, language, wealth, and experience (to name only a few variables) could influence how a group...