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Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages by Manuele Gragnolati 9780367602475
RRP: $59.33Booksplease Price: $55.57This 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... -
Rome: Eternal City Ferdinand Addis 9781781853047
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20The sweeping story of the city of Rome, told through twenty-two moments that shaped its history. ***A Times History Book of the Year*** 'Vivid, pacey... Superb' The Times. 'Grand narrative... -
Renaissance Humanism: An Anthology of Sources by Margaret L. King 9781624661112
RRP: $27.08Booksplease Price: $20.20By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and useful anthology is the vision behind it: King shows... -
Renaissance Humanism: An Anthology of Sources by Margaret L. King 9781624661129
RRP: $82.55Booksplease Price: $58.82By far the best collection of sources to introduce readers to Renaissance humanism in all its many guises. What distinguishes this stimulating and useful anthology is the vision behind it: King shows... -
The Cultural World of Eleonora di Toledo: Duchess of Florence and Siena by Konrad Eisenbichler
RRP: $77.39Booksplease Price: $72.03Eleonora di Toledo was a powerful and influential woman who, over the course of nearly a quarter century (1539-62), contributed profoundly to the cultural flowering of ducal Florence. Her patronage... -
Poet of Revolution: The Making of John Milton by Nicholas McDowell 9780691241739
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $29.57A groundbreaking biography of Milton's formative years that provides a new account of the poet's political radicalizationJohn Milton (1608-1674) has a unique claim on literary and intellectual... -
Selected Poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt 9781848611023
RRP: $16.71Booksplease Price: $13.40Sir Thomas Wyatt is remembered today as one of the most important poets in the English language, and as the man who brought the sonnet into English, with spectacular imitations and re-creations of... -
The Communion of the Book: Milton and the Humanist Revolution in Reading by David Williams 9780228014690
RRP: $144.48Booksplease Price: $115.97The modern world was not created by the civilization of Renaissance Italy, the advent of the printing press, or the marriage restrictions imposed by the medieval church. Rather, it was widespread... -
Vergil in the Middle Ages by Domenico Comparetti
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $66.91From its first complete Italian printing in 1872 up to the present day, Domenico Comparetti's Vergil in the Middle Ages has been acknowledged as a masterpiece, regarded by some critics as "a true and... -
Collecting: An Unruly Passion: Psychological Perspectives by Werner Muensterberger 9780691604282
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $52.15From rare books, valuable sculpture and paintings, the relics of saints, and porcelain and other precious items, through stamps, textiles, military ribbons, and shells, to baseball cards, teddy... -
Language and Meaning in the Renaissance by Richard Waswo
RRP: $61.92Booksplease Price: $59.40Exploring the status of the semantic unit in recent linguistic and literary theories--the sign itself--Richard Waswo relates present-day literary concerns to Renaissance thought about the connections... -
European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius 9780691157009
RRP: $51.60Booksplease Price: $44.70Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the... -
Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition by Melissa E. Sanchez 9781479871872
RRP: $112.23Booksplease Price: $91.16Honorable Mention, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, given by the Modern Language Association Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts Putting premodern theology and... -
The Routledge Guidebook to Augustine's Confessions Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr College, US) 9781138847989
RRP: $34.82Booksplease Price: $29.66Augustine's Confessions is one of the most significant works of Western culture. Cast as a long, impassioned conversation with God, it is intertwined with passages of life-narrative and with key... -
Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater Sara Morrison 9781032926292
RRP: $54.17Booksplease Price: $51.20Offering the first sustained and comprehensive scholarly consideration of the dramatic potential of the blazon, this volume complicates what has become a standard reading of the Petrarchan convention... -
Queer Faith: Reading Promiscuity and Race in the Secular Love Tradition by Melissa E. Sanchez
RRP: $38.69Booksplease Price: $33.31Honorable Mention, 2020 Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize, given by the Modern Language Association Uncovers the queer logics of premodern religious and secular texts Putting premodern theology and... -
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age by David Damrosch
RRP: $28.38Booksplease Price: $23.63From a leading figure in comparative literature, a major new survey of the field that points the way forward for a discipline undergoing rapid changesLiterary studies are being transformed today by... -
The Princeton Handbook of Multicultural Poetries Terry V.F. Brogan 9780691001685
RRP: $79.98Booksplease Price: $63.97Drawn from the acclaimed New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, the articles in this concise new reference book provide a complete survey of the poetic history and practice in every major... -
Roman de la Rose: A Study in Allegory and Iconography by John V. Fleming
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $47.25Since the Roman de la Rose had tremendous influence on the poetry of the fourteenth century, particularly on the works of Deschamps, Machaut, Froissart, and Chaucer, Professor Fleming maintains that... -
Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love by Simon Blackburn 9780691169118
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.03Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior. But are narcissism... -
The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms: Third Edition by Roland Greene 9780691170435
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $39.50The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms--drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics--provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the... -
The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms: Third Edition by Roland Greene 9780691171999
RRP: $135.45Booksplease Price: $106.58The Princeton Handbook of Poetic Terms--drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics--provides an authoritative guide to the most important terms in the... -
Dante's Divine Comedy: A Biography Joseph Luzzi 9780691156774
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $21.99The life and times of Dante's soaring poetic allegory of the soul's redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy describes... -
Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance Anna Wainwright 9781644533604
RRP: $134.16Booksplease Price: $107.91Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in Renaissance Italy investigates the ever-evolving role of the widow in medieval and early modern Italian literature, from canonical authors such as Dante,... -
Dante by John Took
RRP: $36.12Booksplease Price: $32.52An authoritative and comprehensive intellectual biography of the author of the Divine ComedyFor all that has been written about the author of the Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) remains... -
The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries by Roland Greene 9780691170510
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $37.82The Princeton Handbook of World Poetries--drawn from the latest edition of the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics--provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the history... -
Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love by Simon Blackburn 9780691161426
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $25.54Everyone deplores narcissism, especially in others. The vain are by turns annoying or absurd, offending us whether they are blissfully oblivious or proudly aware of their behavior. But are narcissism... -
Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge by Giuseppe Mazzotta
RRP: $67.08Booksplease Price: $57.47In a masterly synthesis of historical and literary analysis, Giuseppe Mazzotta shows how medieval knowledge systems--the cycle of the liberal arts, ethics, politics, and theology--interacted with... -
The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology by Ernst H. Kantorowicz 9780691169231
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $25.67Originally published in 1957, this classic work has guided generations of scholars through the arcane mysteries of medieval political theology. Throughout history, the notion of two bodies has... -
A Theory of the Aphorism: From Confucius to Twitter by Andrew Hui 9780691210759
RRP: $25.80Booksplease Price: $23.96An engaging look at the aphorism, the shortest literary form, across time, languages, and culturesAphorisms-or short philosophical sayings-appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to... -
The Poetess Counts to 100 and Bows Out: Selected Poems by Ana Enriqueta Teran by Ana Enriqueta Teran 9780691096728
RRP: $32.25Booksplease Price: $30.56Ana Enriqueta Teran is arguably Venezuela's finest poet. Celebrated throughout the Spanish-speaking world, she is almost unknown among anglophones. Until now only a handful of her poems have been... -
From Bonaventure to Bellini: An Essay in Franciscan Exegesis by John V. Fleming 9780691613765
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $37.44In this study of Giovanni Bellini's great masterpiece, the so-called Frick St. Francis, John V. Fleming moves beyond earlier discussions of the work to offer a detailed and comprehensive iconographic... -
Eugenio Montale's Poetry: A Dream in Reason's Presence by Glauco Cambon 9780691613857
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.25Glauco Cambon draws on twenty-five years of commitment to Montale's poetry and prose for this extended critical analysis. Originally published in 1983. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
The Man I Pretend to Be: The Colloquies and Selected Poems of Guido Gozzano by Guido Gozzano 9780691615080
RRP: $58.05Booksplease Price: $47.25Translated here in a bilingual edition is Gozzano's best and best-known collection of poems, The Colloquies, along with a selection of his other poems. Also included is an introductory essay by... -
The Man I Pretend to Be: The Colloquies and Selected Poems of Guido Gozzano by Guido Gozzano 9780691642628
RRP: $135.45Booksplease Price: $106.19Translated here in a bilingual edition is Gozzano's best and best-known collection of poems, The Colloquies, along with a selection of his other poems. Also included is an introductory essay by... -
How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education by Scott Newstok
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.27A lively and engaging guide to vital habits of mind that can help you think more deeply, write more effectively, and learn more joyfullyHow to Think like Shakespeare is a brilliantly fun exploration... -
The Demon of Noontide: Ennui in Western Literature by Reinhard Kuhn
RRP: $77.40Booksplease Price: $66.91Kierkegaard claimed that the gods created man because they were bored, and Baudelaire predicted that the "delicate monster" of boredom would one day swallow up the whole world in an immense yawn... -
How to Grieve: An Ancient Guide to the Lost Art of Consolation by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780691220321
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $16.73An engaging new translation of a timeless masterpiece about coping with the death of a loved oneIn 45 BCE, the Roman statesman Cicero fell to pieces when his beloved daughter, Tullia, died from... -
The Book of Job: A Biography by Mark Larrimore 9780691202464
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $17.07The life and times of this iconic and enduring biblical bookThe book of Job raises stark questions about the meaning of innocent suffering and the relationship of the human to the divine, yet it is... -
Reason and the Lover by John V. Fleming 9780691612645
RRP: $41.28Booksplease Price: $37.44This textual and intertextual analysis of the dialogue in Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose combines specific close readings of texts with a rich theoretical argument to establish Reason's moral...