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Canti by Giacomo Leopardi
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €12.51'So my mind sinks in this immensity:and foundering is sweet in such a sea'Revisited and reorganized over his lifetime, this extraordinary work was described by Leopardi as a 'reliquary' for his... -
Moral Fables by Giacomo Leopardy
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20Alongside his monumental Zibaldone (Notebooks) and the poems collected in Canti, which make him one of Italy's greatest and best-loved poets, Giacomo Leopardi penned a number of fictional pieces,... -
Passions by Giacomo Leopardi 9780300186338
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Leopardi: Selected Poems by Giacomo Leopardi
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €28.19These translations of the major poems of Giacomo Leopardi (1798--1837) render into modern English verse the work of a writer who is widely regarded as the greatest lyric poet in the Italian literary... -
Leopardi: Poems and Prose by Giacomo Leopardi 9780313257698
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The Letters of Giacomo Leopardi 1817-1837 by Prue Shaw
Booksplease Price: €47.59Giacomo Leopardi, Italy's great poet of the Romantic age, is the author of some of the most beautiful and best-loved poems in the Italian language and some of the most remarkable letters in European... -
Canti: Poems / A Bilingual Edition by Professor Giacomo Leopardi 9780374533052
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €24.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374533052Author Professor Giacomo LeopardiFormat PaperbackPage Count 528 -
The Ethics of Giacomo Leopardi: A Philosophy for the Environmental Crisis by Alice Gibson 9781350298644
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The Ethics of Giacomo Leopardi: A Philosophy for the Environmental Crisis by Alice Gibson 9781350298637
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Hacia el Infinito Naufragio: Una Biografia de Giacomo Leopardi by Antonio Colinas 9788472232792
Booksplease Price: €17.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788472232792Author Antonio ColinasFormat PaperbackPage Count 295Imprint -
Giacomo Leopardi's Search For a Common Life Through Poetry: A Different Nobility, A Different Love by Frank Rosengarten 9781611475050
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Ruins Past: Modernity in Italy, 1744-1836 by Sabrina Ferri 9780729411714
Booksplease Price: €116.54In an era haunted by its past, modern Europe sought to break with the old; the future and the new became the ideal. In Italy however, where the remains of the past dominated the landscape, ruins were... -
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Answering Back: Living poets reply to the poetry of the past by Carol Ann Duffy 9780330448246 [USED COPY]
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €3.56Carol Ann Duffy has invited fifty of her peers to choose and respond to a poem from the past. With up-and-coming poets alongside more established names, and original poems alongside the new works... -
The Serpent Coiled in Naples by Marius Kociejowski
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98In recent years Naples has become, for better or worse, the new 'destination' in Italy. While many of its more esoteric features are on display for all to see the stories behind them remain largely... -
Modern Tragedy and the End of Worlds: Lillo, Leopardi, Ibsen Leonardo F. Lisi 9780810149120
RRP: €52.36Booksplease Price: €43.32Studying three tragic authors to explore the meanings - and consequences - of modernity The emergence of a distinctly modern form of tragedy is often associated with the introduction of... -
Midday In Italian Literature: Variations of an Archetypal Theme by Nicolas James Perella 9780691610917
RRP: €61.88Booksplease Price: €60.01Although midday is commonly associated with indolence or the languishing of both nature and humanity in stifling heat, Nicolas Perella shows that this connection--however real--is secondary to an... -
The First Book: Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America Jesse Zuba 9780691271118
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €25.47An illuminating look at the poetic debut in twentieth-century American literary culture"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense... -
The First Book: Twentieth-Century Poetic Careers in America by Jesse Zuba 9780691164472
RRP: €57.12Booksplease Price: €48.11"We have many poets of the First Book," the poet and critic Louis Simpson remarked in 1957, describing a sense that the debut poetry collection not only launched the contemporary poetic career but... -
The Savage Library of Roberto Bolaño: Radical Readings Benjamin Loy 9781684485949
RRP: €152.32Booksplease Price: €120.79Visionary Chilean writer Roberto Bolano was known for his darkly poetic prose and postmodern narratives, exemplified in his novel The Savage Detectives. His work is also deeply infused with... -
Leopardi and Shelley: Discovery, Translation and Reception by Daniela Cerimonia
RRP: €113.04Booksplease Price: €107.91Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) crossed paths during their lifetimes, and though they never met, the legacy of their work betrays a shared destiny. As prominent... -
Affirmation of Poetry by Judith Balso 9781937561178
RRP: €20.22Booksplease Price: €17.99Since the times of Plato and Aristotle, the relation of poetry to philosophy has been controversial. For certain scholars, poetry should in no way be confused with philosophy. For others, poetry is... -
Leopardi and Shelley: Discovery, Translation and Reception by Cerimonia Daniela
RRP: €54.73Booksplease Price: €51.27Giacomo Leopardi (1798-1837) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) crossed paths during their lifetimes, and though they never met, the legacy of their work betrays a shared destiny. As prominent... -
Calm Calligraphy: Calm your mind with the art of calligraphy by Malleus Enrico Ragni
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.83Calm Calligraphy will teach you the ancient art of the Scriptorium - copying letters, words and phrases - which helps you focus your thoughts and relax your mind. Learn the beautiful letter forms... -
Rebuilding post-Revolutionary Italy: Leopardi and Vico's `New Science': 2018 by Martina Piperno 9780729412087
Booksplease Price: €116.54Co-Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies, 2018. The rediscovery of the thought of Giambattista Vico (1668-1774) - especially his New science... -
The Invention of Modern Italian Literature: Strategies of Creative Imagination by Gino Tellini 9780802091864
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €30.39Despite its undeniable impact on modern literature, there are very few comprehensive studies of literary works produced in Italy from the end of the eighteenth- to the twentieth century. The... -
The Invention of Modern Italian Literature: Strategies of Creative Imagination by Gino Tellini 9780802091857
RRP: €72.59Booksplease Price: €59.57Despite its undeniable impact on modern literature, there are very few comprehensive studies of literary works produced in Italy from the end of the eighteenth- to the twentieth century. The... -
Selected Verse Translations by David Gascoyne 9781870612333
RRP: €13.03Booksplease Price: €11.13This is a rich harvest from a renowned translator, an elegant survivor. In 1996, in his eightieth year, David Gascoyne was awarded the Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in recognition of his... -
Valse Triste by Marcello Fois
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €8.47When Michelangelo, a young autistic child, goes missing, Commissario Sergio Striggio is put in charge of the investigation. Searches turn up nothing, but there is an interesting connection with the... -
The World Machine by Paolo Volponi 9781803093765
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.41A vivid and unforgettable novelistic portrait of rural Italy, exploring the nature of reality and the human condition. A small-time farmer living in central Italy in the 1960s is the keeper of a... -
Muse by Jonathan Galassi 9781784701109
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.13Paul Dukach is heir apparent at Purcell & Stern, one of the last independent publishing houses in New York, whose shabby offices belie the treasures of its list. Paul remains obsessed by one dazzling... -
The Ruin of Kasch by Roberto Calasso 9780141397016
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is... -
HOPE: The Autobiography Author 241768 9780241764107
RRP: €29.75Booksplease Price: €22.54The groundbreaking, intimate and inspiring memoir from Pope Francis.Pope Francis originally intended this exceptional book to appear only after his death, but the needs of our times and the 2025... -
Irresistible Signs: The Genius of Language and Italian National Identity by Paola Gambarota 9781442642980
RRP: €78.54Booksplease Price: €64.57Language is now understood as a key component of cultural identity, but discourses on linguistic nationalism are only a few centuries old. In Irresistible Signs, Paola Gambarota investigates the... -
Ancient Greek Democracy and American Republicanism: Prometheus in Political Theory by Michail Theodosiadis 9781399537292
RRP: €107.10Booksplease Price: €96.45Ancient Greek Democracy and American Republicanism explores the archetype of Prometheus in political theory, representing faith in human agency and self-governance. It borrows perspectives from... -
Ancient Greek Democracy and American Republicanism: Prometheus in Political Theory Michail Theodosiadis 9781399537308
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.89Ancient Greek Democracy and American Republicanism explores the archetype of Prometheus in political theory, representing faith in human agency and self-governance. It borrows perspectives from... -
In Other Words by Jhumpa Lahiri 9781408866139
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €10.02_______________ 'A passionate love letter to language and to Italy ... a bold and quirkily engaging self-portrait' - Lee Langley, Spectator 'A writer of uncommon elegance and poise' - New York... -
On Modern Poetry by Guido Mazzoni
RRP: €41.59Booksplease Price: €35.08An incisive, unified account of modern poetry in the Western tradition, arguing that the emergence of the lyric as a dominant verse style is emblematic of the age of the individual.Between the end of... -
The Earth is Falling by Carmen Pellegrino 9781913513474
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €11.33The Earth is Falling is a haunting and magical novel based around the existence of an abandoned village outside Naples. The deserted houses that still stand there are peopled with ghosts who live in... -
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The Earth is Falling by Carmen Pellegrino 9781913513474 [USED COPY]
RRP: €14.28Booksplease Price: €4.72The Earth is Falling is a haunting and magical novel based around the existence of an abandoned village outside Naples. The deserted houses that still stand there are peopled with ghosts who live in... -
Ultra-talk: Johnny Cash, the Mafia, Shakespeare, Drum Music, St. Teresa of Avila, and 17 Other Colossal Topics of Conversation by David Kirby 9780820329093
RRP: €36.83Booksplease Price: €27.18In Ultra-Talk, David Kirby poses a simple question: What makes a cultural phenomenon truly great? Exploring a wide variety of "king-sized cultural monuments," Kirby argues that one qualification for...