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Dante: The Divine Comedy by Robin Kirkpatrick
RRP: €24.99Booksplease Price: €24.05In this accessible critical introduction to Dante's Divine Comedy Robin Kirkpatrick principally focuses on Dante as a poet and storyteller. He addresses important questions such as Dante's attitude... -
The European Renaissance 1400-1600 by Robin Kirkpatrick
Booksplease Price: €55.68With Italy at its centre, but encompassing the whole of Renaissance Europe, this evocative history challenges some of the popularly-held views on the Renaissance period. In particular, whilst always... -
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso by Robin Kirkpatrick
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €9.21Robin Kirkpatrick's masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, published in a single volume, is the ideal edition for students as well as the general reader coming to this great masterpiece of... -
The European Renaissance 1400-1600 by Robin Kirkpatrick 9780582294455
Booksplease Price: €39.38With Italy at its centre, but encompassing the whole of Renaissance Europe, this evocative history challenges some of the popularly-held views on the Renaissance period. In particular, whilst... -
Dante's Inferno: Difficulty and Dead Poetry by Robin Kirkpatrick 9780521070522
Booksplease Price: €65.99This book represents a major re-assessment of Dante's Inferno, and of the place which the Inferno occupies in the plan of the whole Commedia. On evidence drawn also from the Paradiso and Purgatorio,... -
Dante's Paradiso and the Limitations of Modern Criticism: A Study of Style and Poetic Theory by Robin Kirkpatrick 9780521157568
Booksplease Price: €42.21In this 1978 book, it is Dr Kirkpatrick's contention that critics have yet to present a satisfactory account of Dante's originality in the Paradiso. We shall best appreciate the Paradiso, he argues,... -
English and Italian Literature From Dante to Shakespeare: A Study of Source, Analogue and Divergence Robin Kirkpatrick 9780582065581
Booksplease Price: €80.81This is the first comprehensive critical comparison of English and Italian literature from the three centuries from Dante to Shakespeare. It begins by examining Chaucer's relationship with Dante,... -
Inferno by Dante Alighieri 9780141393544
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70Discover Dante's original Inferno in this modern and acclaimed Penguin translation. Describing Dante's descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide, Inferno depicts a cruel underworld in which desperate... -
Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages Carolyn Muessig (University of Bristol, UK) 9780415759359
RRP: €70.20Booksplease Price: €65.43Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages deals with medieval notions of heaven in theological and mystical writings, in visions of the Otherworld, and in medieval art, poetry and music. It considers the... -
Inferno: The Divine Comedy I by Dante
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Inferno is the first part of Dante's epic poem The Divine Comedy, revealing the eternal punishment reserved for such sins as greed, self-deception, political double-dealing and treachery. This... -
Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98Having plunged to the uttermost depths of Hell and climbed the Mount of Purgatory in parts one and two of the Divine Comedy, Dante ascends to Heaven in this third and final part, continuing his... -
The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso by Dante Alighieri
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.55Dante's masterpiece of literature is well matched by the peerless art of Gustave Dore. Dante and his guides, Virgil and Beatrice, journey through the cantos in an allegory of the passage of the soul... -
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98In Purgatorio Dante, having described his journey into Hell, narrates his ascent of Mount Purgatory with Virgil, as he encounters penitents who toil through physical agonies, starvation and flames to... -
Saturday's Silence: R. S. Thomas and Paschal Reading by Richard McLauchlan 9781783169207
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €43.85R. S. Thomas is recognised globally as one of the major poets of the twentieth century. Such detailed attention as has been paid to the religious dimensions of his work has, however, largely limited... -
Shakespeare and the Grace of Words: Language, Theology, Metaphysics by Valentin Gerlier 9781032121413
RRP: €49.97Booksplease Price: €47.23Crossing the boundaries between literature, philosophy and theology, Shakespeare and the Grace of Words pioneers a reading strategy that approaches language as grounded in praise; that is, as... -
Maremma Mia N.D. Hopton 9781917837156
RRP: €14.27Booksplease Price: €10.83Maremma Mia is a warm, witty chronicle of one family's adventure transforming an old farmhouse and olive grove in remote Tuscany into a home. Set in the Maremma - "the new Chianti" - the story... -
Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry by Vittorio Montemaggi 9780268162320
RRP: €119.00Booksplease Price: €85.03In Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry, an international group of theologians and Dante scholars provide a uniquely rich set of perspectives focused on the relationship between theology and poetry... -
Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry by Vittorio Montemaggi
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €36.63In Dante's Commedia: Theology as Poetry, an international group of theologians and Dante scholars provide a uniquely rich set of perspectives focused on the relationship between theology and poetry...