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The Essential Petrarch by Francesco Petrarch 9781603842884
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $18.26Petrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore. . . . Hainsworth's study meets this problem through... -
Petrarch in English by Thomas Roche
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79Franceso Petrarch (1304-1374), creator of the sonnet form, remained for more than three hundred years the most influential poet in Europe, his works more widely read than even those of Dante. This... -
The Triumphs of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca 9780461572834
RRP: $21.37Booksplease Price: $21.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461572834Author Francesco PetrarcaFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprin -
Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer by Christopher S. Celenza
RRP: $22.71Booksplease Price: $17.61Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian language. His writings inspired the Humanist movement and, subsequently, the... -
Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses by Heather Dubrow
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $22.07Echoes of Desire variously invokes and interrogates a number of historicist and feminist premises about Tudor and Stuart literature by examining the connections between the anti-Petrarchan tradition... -
Ideas of Heaven by Joan Silber
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDSet in modern-day America and France, Renaissance Italy and Boxer Rebellion China, these stories embrace whole lifetimes, much in the manner of Alice Munro and... -
A Sketch of the Lives and Writings of Dante and Petrarch: With Some Account of Italian and Latin Literature in the Fourteenth Century by Printed for J. Stockdale 9780461616378
Booksplease Price: $18.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461616378Author Printed for J. StockdaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 148 -
The Sonnet; Its Origin, Structure, and Place in Poetry: With Original Translations from the Sonnets of Dante, Petrarch, Etc., and Remarks on the Art of Translating by Tomlinson Tomlinson 9780461412086
RRP: $21.37Booksplease Price: $21.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461412086Author Tomlinson TomlinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Impr -
Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11The 'Canzoniere', a sequence of sonnets and other verse forms, were written over a period of about 40 years. They describe Petrarch's intense love for Laura, whom he first met in Avignon in 1327, and... -
Canzoniere by Francesco Petrarca 9781857544510
RRP: $20.03Booksplease Price: $15.50The "Canzoniere" is among Europe's most influential books of lyrics. The focus of this large collection is Petrarch's lifelong love for the mysterious Laura, but the themes he treats are many and... -
Mystical Origins of the Tarot: From Ancient Roots to Modern Usage by Paul Huson 9780892811908
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.50The origins of the tarot have been lost in the mists of time. Most scholars have guessed that its origins were in China, Egypt, or India. In Mystical Origins of the Tarot, Paul Huson has expertly... -
Princes of the Renaissance by Mary Hollingsworth 9781803281261
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79A beautifully illustrated history of the Renaissance told through the lives of its most important and influential patrons. 'Exceptionally sumptuous... This vivid history brings to life the vices... -
Renaissance Humanism: An Anthology of Sources by Margaret L. King 9781624661112
RRP: $28.13Booksplease Price: $20.98By 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... -
Rome: Eternal City Ferdinand Addis 9781781853047
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79The 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... -
Mirror, Mirror: The Uses and Abuses of Self-Love by Simon Blackburn 9780691169118
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77Everyone 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... -
Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Peter Hainsworth 9780199231799
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.85In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey consider Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its... -
The Book of Job: A Biography by Mark Larrimore 9780691202464
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $17.73The 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... -
The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition by J. G. A. Pocock
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $37.27Originally published in 1975, The Machiavellian Moment remains a landmark of historical and political thought. Celebrated historian J.G.A. Pocock looks at the consequences for modern historical and... -
How to Grieve: An Ancient Guide to the Lost Art of Consolation by Marcus Tullius Cicero 9780691220321
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79An 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... -
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern by Mary Beard
RRP: $40.20Booksplease Price: $34.85From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than... -
Chaucer: A European Life by Marion Turner 9780691160092
RRP: $46.90Booksplease Price: $39.96A groundbreaking biography that recreates the cosmopolitan world in which a wine merchant's son became one of the most celebrated of all English poets More than any other canonical English writer,... -
The King's Two Bodies: A Study in Medieval Political Theology by Ernst H. Kantorowicz 9780691169231
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $27.27Originally 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... -
Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance by Paul Oskar Kristeller 9780804701112
RRP: $25.45Booksplease Price: $22.07Italian Renaissance thought has been gaining ever-increasing recognition as seminal to the thought of the whole Renaissance period, affecting in many subtle ways the development and understanding of... -
Selected Poems of Giovanni Pascoli by Giovanni Pascoli 9780691198279
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.77The most comprehensive collection in English of the founder of modern Italian poetryGiovanni Pascoli (1855-1912)-the founder of modern Italian poetry and one of Italy's most beloved poets-has been... -
Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece by William E. Wallace 9780691212753
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $16.90The untold story of Michelangelo's final decades-and his transformation into the master architect of St. Peter's BasilicaAs he entered his seventies, Michelangelo despaired that his productive years... -
Chaucer's Italy by Richard Owen 9781909961838
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.31Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration and material from Italy. In fact, without the tremendous influence of Francesco Petrarch... -
The Book Of Faces by Joseph Campana 9781555974336
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.06An extraordinary debut taking Audrey Hepburn as the Muse for a series of meditations on the seductions of screen and stage. Campana's poems are haunted by Hepburn, her leading men and a fascinating... -
To the Letter: A Curious History of Correspondence Simon Garfield 9780857868619
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Every letter contains a miniature story, and here are some of the greatest. From Oscar Wilde's unconventional method of using the mail to cycling enthusiast Reginald Bray's quest to post himself,... -
Chaucer's Italy by Richard Owen
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $11.51Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration and material from Italy. Without the tremendous influences of Francesco Petrarch and... -
Blue Guide Literary Companion to Venice by Blue Guides 9781905131327
RRP: $13.33Booksplease Price: $12.62Venice in their own words: an informative and entertaining pocket anthology from over 700 years of literature about, or set in, Venice. Contains extracts from the works of poets, novelists,... -
Defining the Humanities: How Rediscovering a Tradition Can Improve Our Schools, Second Edition With a Curriculum for Today's Students by Robert E. Proctor
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.22"Think of this as 'The Thinking Man's Bloom' or 'The Thinking Woman's Closing of the American Mind.' It takes up debates about education and reasons about them, where Bloom often only blasted away. ... -
100 Best Poems of All Time by Leslie Pockell 9780446676816
Booksplease Price: $14.32Here, in this compact volume, is a greatest hits collection of the 100 best poems ever written by the world's greatest poets. This essential collection is perfect for the poetry lover who wants to... -
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Shards of Love: Exile and the Origins of the Lyric by Maria Rosa Menocal 9780822314059 [USED COPY]
RRP: $125.96Booksplease Price: $12.60With the Spanish conquest of Islamic Granada and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, the year 1492 marks the exile from Europe of crucial strands of medieval culture. It also becomes a symbolic... -
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli 9780882950532
Booksplease Price: $16.03What makes this well-annotated translation stand out from others is an insightful introduction by editor Thomas G. Bergin-especially helpful for achieving a better understanding of the times and the... -
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Writing in Dante's Cult of Truth: From Borges to Bocaccio by Maria Rosa Menocal 9780822311041 [USED COPY]
RRP: $117.92Booksplease Price: $11.79Using the works of Dante as its critical focus, Maria Rosa Menocal's original and imaginative study examines questions of truth, ideology, and reality in poetry as they occur in a series of texts and... -
Milton in Purgatory by Edward Vass 9781912054367
RRP: $10.71Booksplease Price: $9.03Milton Pitt leads an uneventful life, with a dull job and a secret longing for adventure. One morning, after he is hit by a speeding car, he suffers an out-of-body experience and awakens back in his... -
Poems about Books and Libraries by Andrew Scrimgeour
RRP: $16.08Booksplease Price: $11.82A remarkably diverse treasury of literary celebrations, Books and Libraries is sure to take pride of place on the shelves of the book-obsessed. Books have long captured the imagination of readers... -
Songs from a Single Eye Oswald von Wolkenstein (New Directions) 9780811229012
RRP: $12.05Booksplease Price: $11.31The one-eyed singer, songwriter, and knight errant Oswald von Wolkenstein (surname literally "Cloud-Stone") was among the last of the great troubadours. A contemporary of Villon, versed in Petrarch,... -
Classical Literary Careers and their Reception by Philip Hardie 9780521762977
RRP: $120.60Booksplease Price: $81.50This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major... -
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Classical Literary Careers and their Reception by Philip Hardie 9780521762977 [USED COPY]
RRP: $120.60Booksplease Price: $3.16This is a wide-ranging collection of essays on ancient Roman literary careers and their reception in later European literature, with contributions by leading experts. Starting from the three major...