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The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology by Ernst H. Kantorowicz 9780691169231
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €23.68Originally 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: €23.80Booksplease Price: €22.10An 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: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.19Ana 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: €38.08Booksplease Price: €34.53In 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: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.59Glauco 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: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.59Translated 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: €124.95Booksplease Price: €97.96Translated 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... -
Hereafter Knowing in Sonnets and Other Similars by Robert Mueller 9781793644800
Booksplease Price: €102.85Hereafter Knowing in Sonnets and Other Similars explores the work of prominent poets through a philosophical and theological lens. The book focuses on the well-travelled yet precarious achievement... -
Comparing the Literatures: Literary Studies in a Global Age by David Damrosch
RRP: €26.18Booksplease Price: €21.80From 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: €73.78Booksplease Price: €59.01Drawn 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: €49.98Booksplease Price: €43.59Since 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: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.55Everyone 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: €41.65Booksplease Price: €36.44The 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: €124.95Booksplease Price: €98.32The 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: €23.80Booksplease Price: €20.29The 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: €123.76Booksplease Price: €99.54Widow 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,... -
Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print: (Originally published as Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson) by Alvin B. Kernan
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €48.11The description for this book, Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print: (Originally published as Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson), will be forthcoming.Reviews"Writing as he does with... -
Renaissance Thought and the Arts: Collected Essays by Paul Oskar Kristeller
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.53Written by an eminent authority on the Renaissance, these classic essays deal not only with Paul Kristeller's specialty, Renaissance humanism and philosophy, but also with Renaissance theories of art... -
The New Map of the World: The Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Giuseppe Mazzotta 9780691600772
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €43.59For today's readers, the great Italian philosopher of history Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) can be startlingly relevant to the social and educational divisiveness we confront at century's end: here... -
From Poliziano to Machiavelli: Florentine Humanism in the High Renaissance by Peter Godman 9780691655284
RRP: €73.78Booksplease Price: €61.73Peter Godman presents the first intellectual history of Florentine humanism from the lifetime of Angelo Poliziano in the later fifteenth century to the death of Niccolo Machiavelli in 1527. Making... -
Lorenzo Ghiberti: Volume I by Richard Krautheimer 9780691200569
RRP: €154.70Booksplease Price: €121.57Volume 1 of 2. Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor and towering figure of the Renaissance, was the creator of the celebrated Bronze Doors of the Baptistery at Florence, a work that occupied him for twenty... -
The Comic Matrix of Shakespeare's Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear by Susan Snyder 9780691196619
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €34.53Comic elements in Shakespeare's tragedies have often been noted, but while most critics have tended to concentrate on humorous interludes or on a single play, Susan Snyder seeks a more comprehensive... -
The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought by Sanford Schwartz 9780691604374
RRP: €45.22Booksplease Price: €39.06Sanford Schwartz situates Modernist poetics in the intellectual ferment of the early twentieth century, which witnessed major developments in philosophy, science, and the arts. Beginning with the... -
Collected Works of Paul Valery, Volume 1: Poems by Paul Valery 9780691620312
RRP: €89.25Booksplease Price: €86.04Poems ranging from "La Jeune Parque" and "Le Cimetiere marin" to occasional and light verse written as letters to friends, dedications in books, and inscriptions on ladies' fans demonstrate the wide... -
Action and Conviction in Early Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of E.H. Harbison by Theodore K. Rabb 9780691622101
RRP: €77.35Booksplease Price: €64.80The essays in this volume cover a wide range of topics in the history of Europe from the later Middle Ages through the seventeenth century. They are concerned with the relations between outer... -
Men and Ideas: History, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance by Johan Huizinga
RRP: €65.45Booksplease Price: €55.38This collection by the distinguished Dutch historian Johan Huizinga (1872-1945) reflects the theme of its key essay, The Task of Cultural History," throughout its pages. Huizinga's conception of... -
Machiavelli's God by Maurizio Viroli
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €31.81To many readers of The Prince, Machiavelli appears to be deeply un-Christian or even anti-Christian, a cynic who thinks rulers should use religion only to keep their subjects in check. But in... -
The Grace of the Italian Renaissance by Ita Mac Carthy
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €41.23How grace shaped the Renaissance in Italy"Grace" emerges as a keyword in the culture and society of sixteenth-century Italy. The Grace of the Italian Renaissance explores how it conveys and connects... -
The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History by Alice Crawford
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.29From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, scholarship, and the imagination. The Meaning of the Library is a generously illustrated examination of... -
Joseph Brodsky and the Creation of Exile by David M. Bethea 9780691605586
RRP: €59.50Booksplease Price: €49.93Joseph Brodsky, one of the most prominent contemporary American poets, is also among the finest living poets in the Russian language. Nevertheless, his poetry and the crucial bilingual dimension of... -
Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth: Vico and Neapolitan Painting by Malcolm Bull 9780691138848
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €31.81Can painting transform philosophy? In Inventing Falsehood, Making Truth, Malcolm Bull looks at Neapolitan art around 1700 through the eyes of the philosopher Giambattista Vico. Surrounded by... -
Vision, Race, and Modernity: A Visual Economy of the Andean Image World by Deborah Poole
RRP: €53.55Booksplease Price: €46.33Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian, and U.S. archives, Deborah Poole explores the role visual images and technologies have played in shaping modern... -
Dante's Poets: Textuality and Truth in the COMEDY Teodolinda Barolini 9780691612089
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €48.47By systematically analyzing Dante's attitudes toward the poets who appear throughout his texts, Teodolinda Barolini examines his beliefs about the limits and purposes of textuality and, most... -
Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life by Robert E. Lerner 9780691183022
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €27.27The first complete biography of an influential historian whose dramatic life intersected with many great events and thinkers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first complete biography of Ernst... -
The Selected Letters of Nikos Kazantzakis by Nikos Kazantzakis 9780691203171
RRP: €85.68Booksplease Price: €74.45The life of Nikos Kazantzakis-the author of Zorba the Greek and The Last Temptation of Christ-was as colorful and eventful as his fiction. And nowhere is his life revealed more fully or surprisingly... -
Chaucerian Theatricality by John M. Ganim 9780691601434
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €31.81Whereas modern criticism has emphasized the unity and sense of permanence in The Canterbury Tales, John Ganim alerts us to a dialectically opposing dimension that Chaucer's poetics shares with the... -
Resolved Soul: A Study of Marvell's Major Poems by Ann E. Berthoff 9780691621319
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €43.59Intellectual power and subtlety are as important to a definition of Marvell's style as grace of feeling, says the author of this highly original study, which illuminates the philosophical character... -
Paradoxia Epidemica: The Renaissance Tradition of Paradox by Rosalie Littell Colie 9780691623863
RRP: €92.82Booksplease Price: €77.48Paradoxia Epidemica is a broad-ranging critical study of Renaissance thought, showing how the greatest writers of the period from Erasmus and Rabelais to Donne, Milton, and Shakespeare made conscious... -
Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515 by John M. Najemy 9780691655222
RRP: €71.40Booksplease Price: €62.08Between Friends offers the first extended close reading of the most famous epistolary dialogue of the Renaissance, the letters exchanged from 1513 to 1515 by Niccolo Machiavelli and Francesco Vettori... -
A History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century Christopher Prendergast 9780691271392
RRP: €35.70Booksplease Price: €30.00An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholarsThis book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history...