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Journey to Beatrice by Charles S. Singleton
Booksplease Price: £38.42Originally published in 1977. This volume recovers the allegory in Dante's Divine Comedy and presumes that readers' deficient knowledge of or interest in allegory have led to misinterpretations of... -
Dante's <I>Commedia</I>: Elements of Structure by Charles S. Singleton
Booksplease Price: £23.17Originally published in 1977. This book contains four essays by Professor Charles Singleton: "Allegory," "Symbolism," "The Pattern at the Center," and "The Substance of Things Seen." These four... -
The Divine Comedy, III. Paradiso, Vol. III. Part 1: 1: Italian Text and Translation; 2: Commentary by Dante 9780691019123
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the... -
Conversations with Angels: Essays Towards a History of Spiritual Communication, 1100-1700 by J. Raymond 9780230552036
Booksplease Price: £112.12Based on refractions of earlier beliefs, modern angels - at once terrible and comforting, frighteningly other and reassuringly beneficent - have acquired a powerful symbolic value. This... -
The Divine Comedy, III. Paradiso, Vol. III. Part 2: Commentary by Dante 9780691019130
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.07Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the... -
The Divine Comedy, II. Purgatorio, Vol. II. Part 2: Commentary by Dante
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the... -
The Divine Comedy, II. Purgatorio, Vol. II. Part 1: Text by Dante 9780691019093
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £22.30Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the... -
The Divine Comedy Dante 9780691212777
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.40For the first time in one volume, the most elegant and accessible translation of Dante's enduring masterpieceCharles Singleton's English-language translation of The Divine Comedy is widely considered... -
World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination by Allison B. Kavey 9780230105881
Booksplease Price: £103.04The early modern period was rife with attempts to re-imagine the world and the human place within it. This volume looks at natural philosophers, playwrights, historians, and other figures in the... -
World-Building and the Early Modern Imagination by A. Kavey 9781349290147
Booksplease Price: £92.21The early modern period was rife with attempts to re-imagine the world and the human place within it. This volume looks at natural philosophers, playwrights, historians, and other figures in the... -
The Divine Comedy, I. Inferno, Vol. I. Part 2: Commentary by Dante
RRP: £58.00Booksplease Price: £48.37Charles S. Singleton's edition of the Divine Comedy, of which this is the first part, provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. ... -
The Divine Comedy, I. Inferno, Vol. I. Part 1: Text by Dante 9780691018966
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £22.28Charles S. Singleton's edition of the Divine Comedy, of which this is the first part, provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand Dante's great masterpiece. ... -
How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 BCE to Now by Walter Stephens 9781421446646
RRP: £27.50Booksplease Price: £22.01A sweeping history of how writing has preserved cultural practices, traditions, and knowledge throughout human history.In How Writing Made Us Human, 3000 BCE to Now, Walter Stephens condenses the... -
Literary Forgery in Early Modern Europe, 1450-1800 by Walter Stephens 9781421426877
Booksplease Price: £52.01Why was the Renaissance also the golden age of forgery?Forgery is an eternal problem. In literature and the writing of history, suspiciously attributed texts can be uniquely revealing when subjected... -
The Body in Early Modern Italy by Julia L. Hairston
Booksplease Price: £59.88Human bodies have been represented and defined in various ways across different cultures and historical periods. As an object of interpretation and site of social interaction, the body has throughout... -
On the Heroic Frenzies by Ingrid D. Rowland 9781442643895
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £88.63Italian astronomer and Dominican friar Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), found guilty of heresy by the Roman Inquisition and burned at the stake, has long been an enigma of early modern European philosophy...