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  • The Liberation of Jerusalem

    by Torquato Tasso, Mark Davie ...
    Translated by Max Wickert ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'The bitter tragedy of human life-- horrors of death, attack, retreat, advance, and the great game of Destiny and Chance. ' In The Liberation of Jerusalem (Gerusalemme liberata, 1581), Torquato Tasso set out to write an epic to rival the Iliad and the Aeneid. Unlike his predecessors, he took his subject not from myth but from history: the Christian capture of Jerusalem during the First Crusade. ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • The Divine Comedy: Hell

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    So many versions of the Divine Comedy exist in English that a new one might well seem needless. But most of these translations are in verse, and the intellectual temper of our time is impatient of a transmutation in which substance is sacrificed for form's sake, and the new form is itself different from the original. The conditions of verse in different languages vary so widely as to make any ... Read more

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  • The Aeneid

    (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

    Translated by Robert Fagles ...
    by Virgil ...
    Series series Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition
    From the award-winning translator of The Iliad and The Odyssey comes a brilliant new translation of Virgil's great epicFleeing the ashes of Troy, Aeneas, Achilles’ mighty foe in the Iliad, begins an incredible journey to fulfill his destiny as the founder of Rome. His voyage will take him through stormy seas, entangle him in a tragic love affair, and lure him into the world of the dead itself--all ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Bulfinch's Mythology

    by Thomas Bulfinch ...
    American author and banker Thomas Bulfinch is best known for his three separate works on mythology, “The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes”, “The Age of Chivalry, or Legends of King Arthur”, and “Legends of Charlemagne, or Romance of the Middle Ages” collectively entitled “Bulfinch’s Mythology,” which was first gathered together in one volume and published after his death in 1867. Carl J ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Aeneid

    by Vergil, Virgil ...
    Translated by Shadi Bartsch ...
    A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil’s Aeneid restores the epic’s spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of Western culture.“Vivid and haunting . . . a model of how to render Latin poetry in English.”—Tom Holland, New StatesmanFor two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas’s dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Inferno

    by Dante ...
    Translated by Benedict Flynn ...
    Series Book 1 - Divine Comedy
    Dantes Hell is one of the most remarkable visions in Western literature. An allegory for his and future ages, it is, at the same time, an account of terrifying realism. Passing under a lintel emblazoned with these frightening words, the poet is led down into the depths by Virgil and shown those doomed to suffer eternal torment for vices exhibited and sins committed on earth. The Inferno is the ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Aeneid of Virgil

    by Virgil ...
    Translated by Allen Mandelbaum ...
    Aeneas flees the ashes of Troy to found the city of Rome and change forever the course of the Western world--as literature as well. Virgil's Aeneid is as eternal as Rome itself, a sweeping epic of arms and heroism--the searching portrait of a man caught between love and duty, human feeling and the force of fate--that has influenced writers for over 2,000 years. Filled with drama, passion, and the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Dante's Divine Comedy: Inferno

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    The Inferno is by far the most popular and well-known of the books in the Divine Comedy trilogy because of its depiction and understanding of the moral and spiritual pitfalls which still plague us today. This edition is illustrated with astonishing artworks, from Hieronymus Bosch's depictions of a surreal, hellish landscapes and other Renaissance visions of the Last Judgement, to Gustave Doré's ... Read more

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  • Orlando Furioso

    Part One

    Translated by Barbara Reynolds ...
    by Ludovico Ariosto ...
    Series Book 1 - Orlando Furioso
    One of the greatest epic poems of the Italian Renaissance, Orlando Furioso is an intricate tale of love and enchantment set at the time of the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne's conflict with the Moors. When Count Orlando returns to France from Cathay with the captive Angelica as his prize, her beauty soon inspires his cousin Rinaldo to challenge him to a duel - but during their battle, Angelica ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • The Divine Comedy

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by Clive James ...
    “Under James’s uncanny touch, seven long centuries drop away, and the great poem is startlingly fresh and new.”—Stephen GreenblattThe Divine Comedy is the precursor of modern literature, and Clive James’s translation—decades in the making—gives us the entire epic as a single, coherent, and compulsively readable lyric poem. For the first time ever in an English translation, James makes the bold ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Orlando Furioso

    by Ludovico Ariosto ...
    Translated by Guido Waldman ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    `I sing of knights and ladies, of love and arms, of courtly chivalry, of courageous deeds.' So begins Ariosto's Orlando Furioso (1532), the culmination of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France. It is a brilliantly witty parody of the medieval romances, and a fitting monument to the court society of the Italian Renaissance which gave them birth. This unabridged ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Song of Roland

    by Charles Kenneth Scott-Moncrieff, Anonymous ...
    pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. Charles the King, our Lord and Sovereign, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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