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The Theological Origins of Modernity by Michael Allen Gillespie
Booksplease Price: $52.08Exposing 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... -
Metamorphic Verse: The Elizabethan Minor Epic by Clark Hulse 9780691614687
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $88.12To 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... -
The Italian Renaissance: The Essential Sources by Kenneth Gouwens 9780631231653
RRP: $75.50Booksplease Price: $72.60These 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: $252.00Booksplease Price: $178.75Manuscript 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... -
Forming Sleep: Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance by Nancy L. Simpson-Younger
RRP: $184.78Booksplease Price: $175.06Forming 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: $50.30Booksplease Price: $48.41Forming 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... -
Painting in the Age of Giotto: A Historical Reevaluation by Hayden B.J. Maginnis 9780271020914
RRP: $98.68Booksplease Price: $91.71Painting 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... -
Anna Hume: Printed Writings 1641-1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 8 by Thomas P. Roche
Booksplease Price: $228.94Little 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... -
Princes of the Renaissance by Mary Hollingsworth 9781803281261
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.74A 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: $168.00Booksplease Price: $162.33In 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... -
Draft of a Letter by James Longenbach
Booksplease Price: $37.15From 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: $168.00Booksplease Price: $162.33Louise 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... -
Complete Poetry and Prose: A Bilingual Edition by Louise Labe
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $62.98Louise 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 Wisdom of the Renaissance by Michael Kellogg
RRP: $41.98Booksplease Price: $38.41This 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... -
Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation by Joanna H. Drell
RRP: $79.80Booksplease Price: $69.05Medieval 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... -
The Renaissance Rediscovery of Intimacy by Kathy Eden
Booksplease Price: $65.88In 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... -
The Revolution of Cola Di Rienzo by Ronald G Musto 9780934977005
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $40.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780934977005Author Francesco PetrarchFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Italica PressPublisher... -
Rhetorical Renaissance: The Mistress Art and Her Masterworks by Kathy Eden
RRP: $159.60Booksplease Price: $154.46Kathy 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... -
Sonnets for Michelangelo by Vittoria Colonna
Booksplease Price: $63.90The 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: $64.13This 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 Medieval invention of Travel by Shayne Aaron Legassie
Booksplease Price: $54.05Over 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: $69.80Chiara 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,... -
A Comprehensive Guide to Shakespeare’s Sonnets Roland Weidle 9781350382831
Booksplease Price: $184.97This 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: $63.00Booksplease Price: $51.66A 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: $168.00Booksplease Price: $162.33The 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 Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy by Jacob Burckhardt 9780486475974
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $35.36This 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... -
Boccaccio: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works by 9780226079189
RRP: $98.70Booksplease Price: $98.01Long 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... -
How to Read a Poem: Seven Steps Thomas H. Ford 9780367695040
RRP: $67.18Booksplease Price: $65.50How 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... -
The Renaissance Philosophy of Man by Ernst Cassirer
Booksplease Price: $52.08Despite 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... -
The Dream of Bernat Metge by Richard Vernier
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $80.58The 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... -
Leopardi's Nymphs: Grace, Melancholy, and the Uncanny by Fabio A. Camilletti 9780367601010
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $87.78The 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... -
Selected Sonnets by Luis de Camoes
Booksplease Price: $52.08The 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,... -
Theory as Practice: Ethical Inquiry in the Renaissance by Nancy S. Struever 9780226777429
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $114.20There 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... -
Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages Manuele Gragnolati 9781907747960
RRP: $199.48Booksplease Price: $191.06This book takes Alighieri Dante's multifaceted discourse of desire as a platform in investigating medieval concepts of desire in all their multiplicity, fragmentation, and interrelation, focusing on... -
Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis by Rachel Eisendrath 9780226516585
Booksplease Price: $192.28We 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... -
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The Shadow of Dante in French Renaissance Lyric: Sceve's "Delie" by Alison Baird Lovell 9781501517976
RRP: $213.15Booksplease Price: $145.28This 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... -
Thomas Wyatt: The Critical Heritage by Patricia Thomson 9780415867825
RRP: $111.28Booksplease Price: $100.38The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and... -
Posthumous Love: Eros and the Afterlife in Renaissance England by Ramie Targoff
Booksplease Price: $80.68For 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... -
Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis by Rachel Eisendrath
Booksplease Price: $56.03We 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 Complete Poems of Shakespeare by Cathy Shrank 9780582784109
Booksplease Price: $99.02Although best known for his plays, William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) was also a poet who achieved extraordinary depth and variety in only a few key works. This edition of his poetry provides detailed...