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Reading Dante by Giuseppe Mazzotta
Booksplease Price: £22.93A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The... -
The Worlds of Petrarch by Giuseppe Mazzotta 9780822313960
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14At the center of Petrarch's vision, announcing a new way of seeing the world, was the individual, a sense of the self that would one day become the center of modernity as well. This self, however,... -
Dante's Vision and the Circle of Knowledge by Giuseppe Mazzotta
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.55In 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... -
Cosmopoiesis: The Renaissance Experiment by Giuseppe Mazzotta 9780802084217
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £21.14Cosmopoiesis means world-making, and in this erudite, polemical book, Professor Mazzotta traces how major medieval and Renaissance thinkers invented their worlds through utopias, magic, science, art,... -
The World at Play in Boccaccio's Decameron by Giuseppe Mazzotta 9780691610870
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £38.93Giuseppe Mazzotta provides both a powerful framework for reading the Decameron and an important contribution to medieval and contemporary debates in esthetics Originally published in 1986. The... -
The New Map of the World: The Poetic Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Giuseppe Mazzotta 9780691600772
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £36.63For 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... -
Inferno by Dante Alighieri 9780393977967
Booksplease Price: £13.99Richard Wilbur praises Palma's translation as "accurate as to sense, fully rhymed, and easy, as a rule, in its movement through the tercets. Readers will find it admirably clear and readable." The... -
On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians by Giambattista Vico 9780300136913
Booksplease Price: £65.11This volume comprises a new critical edition of Vico's original Latin text and a faithful translation of this early work on metaphysics. Robert Miner's introduction offers valuable guidance in... -
The Medieval Heart by Heather Webb 9780300153934
Booksplease Price: £65.11Drawing from the works of Dante, Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, Aquinas, and Cavalcanti and other literary, philosophic, and scientific texts, Heather Webb studies medieval notions of the heart to... -
The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio 9780393935622
Booksplease Price: £17.19This Norton Critical Edition includes: fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorn's translation of The Decameron; introductory materials, explanatory footnotes and three maps;... -
The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature by Andrew Hui 9780823273355
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £67.40The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material... -
The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature by Andrew Hui
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £22.44The Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as a distinct category of cultural discourse, one that inspired voluminous poetic production. For humanists, the ruin became the material... -
Dante and the Limits of the Law by Justin Steinberg
Booksplease Price: £91.56In Dante and the Limits of the Law, Justin Steinberg offers the first comprehensive study of the legal structure crucial to Dante's Divine Comedy. Steinberg reveals how Dante imagines an afterlife... -
Dante's Idea of Friendship: The Transformation of a Classical Concept by Filippa Modesto
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £46.93In the ancient world, friendship was a virtue of great philosophical importance. Aristotle wrote extensively about it, as did Cicero. Their conception of friendship as a relationship based on reason... -
Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism: Italy and the United States by Gregory L. Lucente 9780804728300
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36Crosspaths in Literary Theory and Criticism traces several of the most recent trends in both the Italian and the American critical traditions, exploring the points at which the two traditions... -
Weakness of Will from Plato to the Present by Tobias Hoffmann 9780813215204
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £51.67In thirteen original essays, eminent scholars of the history of philosophy and of contemporary philosophy examine weakness of will, or incontinence - the phenomenon of acting contrary to one's better... -
The New Science by Giambattista Vico
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £18.30A fresh translation of The New Science, with detailed footnotes that will help both the scholar and the new reader navigate Vico's masterpieceThe New Science is the major work of Italian philosopher... -
Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages: Dante and His Precursors by Ernest L. Fortin 9780739103272
Booksplease Price: £44.31Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages offers scholars of Dante's Divine Comedy an integral understanding of the political, philosophical, and religious context of the medieval masterwork. First... -
Dante For the New Millennium by Teodolinda Barolini 9780823222728
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.28The twenty-five original essays in this remarkable book constitute both a state of the art survey of Dante scholarship and a manifesto for new understandings of one of the world's great poets. The... -
Engaging Europe: Rethinking a Changing Continent by Evlyn Gould 9780742537811
Booksplease Price: £43.76What and where and who is Europe? This unique collection contends that Europe cannot be defined as simply a particular geographic location or a group of citizens who inhabit the same place and share... -
Dante For the New Millennium by Teodolinda Barolini
RRP: £76.00Booksplease Price: £30.36The twenty-five original essays in this remarkable book constitute both a state of the art survey of Dante scholarship and a manifesto for new understandings of one of the world's great poets. The... -
Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies by Theodore J. Cachey 9780268008796
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £57.65Written by ten distinguished Dante scholars, the essays in Dante Now represent the most significant areas of contemporary Dante studies. This collection, originating from a 1993 University of Notre... -
Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies by Theodore J. Cachey
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £21.93Written by ten distinguished Dante scholars, the essays in Dante Now represent the most significant areas of contemporary Dante studies. This collection, originating from a 1993 University of Notre... -
The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso: From Public Duty to Private Pleasure by Jo Ann Cavallo
RRP: £69.00Booksplease Price: £56.61In The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto, and Tasso, Jo Ann Cavallo attempts a new interpretation of the history of the renaissance romance epic in northern Italy, focusing on the period's three... -
Giotto's Arena Chapel and the Triumph of Humility by Henrike Christiane Lange
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £39.61In this book, Henrike Lange takes the reader on a tour through one of the most beloved and celebrated monuments in the world - Giotto's Arena Chapel. Paying close attention to previously overlooked... -
Savoring Power, Consuming the Times: The Metaphors of Food in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature by Pina Palma 9780268206802
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £84.29Pina Palma's Savoring Power, Consuming the Times: The Metaphors of Food in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature is an innovative look at the writings of five important Italian... -
Vita Nuova: A Dual-Language Edition with Parallel Text by Dante Alighieri
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A totally unique poetic treatise, La Vita Nuova is an elaborately and symbolically patterned selection of Dante's early poems, interspersed with his own incisive prose commentary.The poems themselves... -
On Friendship and Freedom: The Correspondence of Ignazio Silone and Marcel Fleischmann by Maria Nicolai Paynter
RRP: £56.00Booksplease Price: £46.14Ignazio Silone, the anti-fascist, Italian author and political activist, continues to intrigue readers and stimulate their minds nearly four decades after his death. On Friendship and Freedom... -
Savoring Power, Consuming the Times: The Metaphors of Food in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature by Pina Palma 9780268038397
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £25.62Pina Palma's Savoring Power, Consuming the Times: The Metaphors of Food in Medieval and Renaissance Italian Literature is an innovative look at the writings of five important Italian... -
Petrarch and Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition by Zygmunt G. Baranski
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £71.36Since the beginnings of Italian vernacular literature, the nature of the relationship between Francesco Petrarch and his predecessor Dante Alighieri has remained an open and endlessly fascinating... -
Petrarch and Dante: Anti-Dantism, Metaphysics, Tradition by 9780268022112
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £30.34Since the beginnings of Italian vernacular literature, the nature of the relationship between Francesco Petrarch and his predecessor Dante Alighieri has remained an open and endlessly fascinating...