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  • Entertaining Ambiguities

    Sexuality, Humanism, and Ephemeral Performances in Fifteenth-Century Italy

    by Ralph J. Hexter ...
    Series series The Middle Ages Series
    An exploration of the intersection of male-male sexual activities and subcultures with Italian humanism and university cultureEntertaining Ambiguities explores the intersections of male-male sexual activities, subcultures, and coded language with classical reception, university culture, and Italian humanism. Through his excavation of a pair of Latin comedies—Janus the Priest and The False ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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  • Reading Dante

    From Here to Eternity

    by Prue Shaw ...
    The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time.Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem.This is far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Dante

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Hainsworth, David Robey ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe. In doing so, they highlight what has made Dante a vital point of reference for modern writers and readers, both inside and outside Italy. They ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • 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

  • Petrarch

    Everywhere a Wanderer

    by Christopher S. Celenza ...
    Series Book 6 - Renaissance Lives
    Born 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 Renaissance, but few figures are as complex or as misunderstood. He was a devotee of the ancient pagan Roman world and a devout Christian, a lover of friendship and sociability, yet at times an intensely ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • Studies In Iconology

    Humanistic Themes In The Art Of The Renaissance

    by Erwin Panofsky ...
    In Studies in Iconology, the themes and concepts of Renaissance art are analysed and related to both classical and medieval tendencies. ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Dante & the Limits of the Law

    by Justin Steinberg ...
    In Dante and the Limits of the Law, Justin Steinberg offers the first comprehensive study of the legal structure essential to Dante's Divine Comedy. Steinberg reveals how Dante imagines an afterlife dominated by sophisticated laws, hierarchical jurisdictions, and rationalized punishments and rewards. He makes the compelling case that Dante deliberately exploits this highly structured legal system ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plague and Music in the Renaissance

    by Remi Chiu ...
    Plague, a devastating and recurring affliction throughout the Renaissance, had a major impact on European life. Not only was pestilence a biological problem, but it was also read as a symptom of spiritual degeneracy and it caused widespread social disorder. Assembling a picture of the complex and sometimes contradictory responses to plague from medical, spiritual and civic perspectives, this book ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Petrarch

    A Critical Guide to the Complete Works

    Edited by Victoria Kirkham, Armando Maggi ...
    Although Francesco Petrarca (1304–74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet's place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age. Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works is the only comprehensive, single-volume source to which anyone—scholar, student, or general reader—can turn for information on each of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance

    Language, Philosophy, and the Search for Meaning

    by Christopher S. Celenza ...
    In this book, Christopher Celenza provides an intellectual history of the Italian Renaissance during the long fifteenth century, from c.1350–1525. His book fills a bibliographic gap between Petrarch and Machiavelli and offers clear case studies of contemporary luminaries, including Leonardo Bruni, Poggio Bracciolini, Lorenzo Valla, Marsilio Ficino, Angelo Poliziano, and Pietro Bembo. Integrating ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch

    Edited by Albert Russell Ascoli, Unn Falkeid ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Petrarch (Francesco Petrarca, 1304–74), best known for his influential collection of Italian lyric poetry dedicated to his beloved Laura, was also a remarkable classical scholar, a deeply religious thinker and a philosopher of secular ethics. In this wide-ranging study, chapters by leading scholars view Petrarch's life through his works, from the epic Africa to the Letter to Posterity, from the ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy

    Edited by Jacqueline Murray, Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Sex, Gender and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy explores the new directions being taken in the study of sex and gender in Italy from 1300 to 1700 and highlights the impact that recent scholarship has had in revealing innovative ways of approaching this subject.In this interdisciplinary volume, twelve scholars of history, literature, art history, and philosophy use a variety of both textual and ... Read more

    $63.99 USD