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  • Boccaccio

    A Critical Guide to the Complete Works

    Edited by Victoria Kirkham,, Michael Sherberg, Janet Levarie Smarr ...
    Long celebrated as one of "the Three Crowns" of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and innovative writings—which range beyond the novella, from lyric to epic, from biography to mythography and geography, from pastoral and romance to invective—became powerful models for authors in Italy and across the Continent.This collection of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jacopo Passavanti

    The Mirror of True Penitence

    by Michael Sherberg ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Jacopo Passavanti: The Mirror of True Penitence presents a complete English translation of Jacopo Passavanti’s unfinished summa on penitence – an essential yet often overlooked work of 14th-century religious thought. Based on his 1354 Lenten sermons at the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence, this book organizes and expands Passavanti’s teachings into a structured guide on sin, confession, ... Read more

    $68.39 USD

  • Gendering the Renaissance

    Text and Context in Early Modern Italy

    by Meredith K. Ray, Lynn Lara Westwater, Anna Wainwright, Suzanne Magnanini, Nathalie Hester, Gabriella Zarri, Emanuela Zanotti Carney, Jennifer Haraguchi, Michael Sherberg0, Courtney Quaintance1 ...
    Series series The Early Modern Exchange
    The essays in this volume revisit the Italian Renaissance to rethink spaces thought to be defined and certain: from the social spaces of convent, court, or home, to the literary spaces of established genres such as religious plays or epic poetry. Repopulating these spaces with the women who occupied them but have often been elided in the historical record, the essays also remind us to ask what ... Read more

    $34.59 USD

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    by Rev. Kenneth Brighenti, Rev. Monsignor James Cafone, Rev. John Trigilio Jr. ...
    An unintimidating guide to understanding the Catholic MassThroughout the centuries, the liturgy of the Church has taken a variety of regional and historical forms, but one thing has remained constant: the Mass has always been the central form of Catholic worship.Catholic Mass For Dummies gives you a step-by-step overview of the Catholic Mass, as well as a close look at the history and meaning of ... Read more

    $14.00 USD

  • Pascal's Pensées

    by Blaise Pascal ...
    Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The Penseés is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human nature in pscyhological, social, metaphysical and - above all - ... Read more

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  • The Latin Mass Explained

    by Rev. Msgr. George J. Moorman ...
    Everything needed to understand and appreciate the Traditional Latin Mass. Fr. George Moorman. Extremely informative, yet very easy to read! Explains, prayer by prayer, what happens at the Latin Mass and why. Answers all your questions about the Mass: why Latin is used, silence, bells, specific colors, etc., and how we participate. Ties in beautifully with Pope Benedict XVI's motu proprio opening ... Read more

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  • Dante Encyclopedia

    Edited by Richard Lansing ...
    Available for the first time in paperback, this essential resource presents a systematic introduction to Dante's life and works, his cultural context and intellectual legacy.The only such work available in English, this Encyclopedia:brings together contemporary theories on Dante, summarizing them in clear and vivid proseprovides in-depth discussions of the Divine Comedy, looki... ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • The Soul of the Apostolate

    by Jean-Baptiste Chautard ...
    In this age of relentless activity it is easy for Christians, particularly those involved in good works, to fall into the pattern of the activist. But mere activity and material results are not sufficient for a successful apostolate.In his classic work The Soul of the Apostolate, Dom Chautard demonstrates that the very foundation of all apostolic work must be the Interior Life. The apostle of ... Read more

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  • A Catholic Prayer Book

    by Catholic Truth Society, Amette Ley ...
    Christian prayer is always an encounter with God. Drawing from a rich treasury of prayer spanning the Old Testament, the Fathers of the Church and the great saints of the Middle Ages, down to more recent times, this newly edited collection will help those seeking a fuller prayer life. Often too unsure to know how to pray for ourselves, the Holy Spirit helps us in our prayer as we bring our needs ... Read more

    $4.89 USD

  • The Medici Women

    Gender and Power in Renaissance Florence

    by Natalie R. Tomas ...
    Series series Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
    The Medici Women is a study of the women of the famous Medici family of Florence in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Natalie Tomas examines critically the changing contribution of the women in the Medici family to the eventual success of the Medici regime and their exercise of power within it; and contributes to our historical understanding of how women were able to wield power in late ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Collected Works of Blaise Pascal

    by Blaise Pascal ...
    This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal • The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal • THOUGHTS ON MIND AND ON STYLE • THE MISERY OF MAN WITHOUT GOD • OF THE NECESSITY OF THE WAGER • OF THE MEANS OF BELIEF • JUSTICE AND THE REASON OF ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy

    by Abigail Brundin, Deborah Howard, Mary Laven ...
    The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy explores the rich devotional life of the Italian household between 1450 and 1600. Rejecting the enduring stereotype of the Renaissance as a secular age, this interdisciplinary study reveals the home to have been an important site of spiritual revitalization. Books, buildings, objects, spaces, images, and archival sources are scrutinized to cast new light on the ... Read more

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