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  • The Pleasant Nights - Volume 2

    Edited by Don Beecher ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Renowned today for his contribution to the rise of the modern European fairy tale, Giovan Francesco Straparola (c. 1480–c. 1557) is particularly known for his dazzling anthology The Pleasant Nights. Originally published in Venice in 1550 and 1553, this collection features seventy-three folk stories, fables, jests, and pseudo-histories, including nine tales we might now designate for ‘mature ... Read more

    $89.29 USD

  • Renaissance Comedy

    The Italian Masters - Volume 1

    by Don Beecher, The Da Ponte Library ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    A rich and multi-faceted aspect of the Italian Renaissance, the comedy has been largely overlooked as a cultural force during the period. In Renaissance Comedy, editor Donald Beecher corrects this oversight with a collection of eleven comedies representative of the principal styles of writing that define the genre. Proceeding from early, ‘erudite’ imitations of Plautus and Terence to satires, ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • The Pleasant Nights - Volume 1

    Edited by Don Beecher ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Renowned today for his contribution to the rise of the modern European fairy tale, Giovan Francesco Straparola (c. 1480–c. 1557) is particularly known for his dazzling anthology The Pleasant Nights. Originally published in Venice in 1550 and 1553, this collection features seventy-three folk stories, fables, jests, and pseudo-histories, including nine tales we might now designate for ‘mature ... Read more

    $105.19 USD

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  • The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri

    Volume 3: Paradiso

    by Robert M. Durling, Robert M. Durling, Robert M. Durling ...
    Robert Durling's spirited new prose translation of the Paradiso completes his masterful rendering of the Divine Comedy. Durling's earlier translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high praise, and with this superb version of the Paradiso readers can now traverse the entirety of Dante's epic poem of spiritual ascent with the guidance of one of the greatest living Italian-to-English ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy

    Volume 2

    by George Corbett, Heather Webb ...
    Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Decameron

    by Giovanni Boccaccio, G. H. McWilliam ...
    Translated by G. H. McWilliam ...
    In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...Taken from the Greek, meaning 'ten-day event', Boccaccio's Decameron sees his characters amuse themselves by each telling a story a day, for the ten days of their confinement - a hundred stories of love and adventure, life and death, and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Inventing the Enemy

    Essays

    by Umberto Eco ...
    This essay collection by the revered public intellectual displays his " profound erudition, lively wit, and passion for ideas of all shapes and sizes" ( Booklist).In these fourteen essays, Umberto Eco examines many of the ideas that have inspired his provocative and illuminating fiction. From the title essay—a disquisition of the notion that every country needs an enemy—he takes readers on an ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Dante Can Save Your Life

    The Life-Changing Wisdom of History's Greatest Poem

    by Rod Dreher ...
    The opening lines of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri launched Rod Dreher on a journey that rescued him from exile and saved his life. Dreher found that the medieval poem offered him a surprisingly practical way of solving modern problems.Following the death of his little sister and the publication of his New York Times bestselling memoir The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Dreher found himself ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • In Dante's Wake

    Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition

    by John Freccero ...
    Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the Divine Comedy realizes he must set his sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port. Starting on the sand of that very shore with Dante, John Freccero begins retracing the famous voyage recounted by the poet nearly 700 years ago.Freccero follows pilgrim and poet through the Comedy and ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati

    The Reprehension of Vice

    by Fabian Alfie ...
    ‘And by now, mind, it’s too late to redeem your debts by giving up guzzling.’Dante's poetic correspondence (or tenzone) with Forese Donati, a relative of his wife, was rife with crude insults: the two men derided one another on topics ranging from sexual dysfunction and cowardice to poverty and thievery. But in his Commedia, rather than denying this correspondence, Dante repeatedly acknowledged ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

  • Serious Play

    Desire and Authority in the Poetry of Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto

    by Robert Hanning ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    Ovid, Chaucer, and Ariosto, premodern Europe's three greatest comic poets, found abundant cause for laughter in the foibles and follies of human desire. Yet they also excelled at the dangerous game of skewering the elites on whom they depended for patronage. The resulting depictions of addled lovers and rattled rulers create a unique dynamic of trenchant critique wrapped in amusing, enlightening, ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Dante's Fearful Art of Justice

    by Anthony Cassell ...
    Series series Heritage
    Dante's Fearful Art of Justice deals primarily with the symbolic significance of 'the state of souls after death' in various episodes of the Inferno, the first canticle of Dante's Divina Commedia. The fruitlessness of the Auerbach-Singleton approach to the poem is demonstrated by Professor Cassell's investigations, which are based on the belief that Dante used both the theological system of ... Read more

    $25.99 USD