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  • Vernacular Edens

    Tropes of Translation in Medieval European Fictions

    by Simone Marchesi ...
    Late-medieval European vernacular literature defined itself as the redeployment of classical and post-classical antecedents in new cultural coordinates. Many authors of narrative and poetic fiction between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries resisted the idea that moving a text from one language to another produces a loss of meaning, or, as today’s idiom goes, that something always gets “lost in ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • The Divine Comedy

    by Dante Alighieri ...
    Translated by Charles S. Singleton ...
    For the first time in one volume, the most elegant and accessible translation of Dante’s enduring masterpieceCharles Singleton’s English-language translation of The Divine Comedy is widely considered to be one of the finest renderings of Dante’s masterpiece. Singleton’s prose is both faithful and scholarly, and sensitive to the subtle nuances of meaning and richness of reference in Dante’s epic ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Dante Alive

    Essays on a Cultural Icon

    Edited by Francesco Ciabattoni, Simone Marchesi ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    The essays collected here join in, and contribute to, the current reflection on Dante’s vitality today in a critical, multidisciplinary vein. Their intervention comes at a particularly sensitive juncture in the history of Dante’s global reception and cultural reuse. Dante today is as alive as ever. A cultural icon no less than a cultural product, Dante’s imaginative universe enjoys a pervasive ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective

    Edited by Simone Marchesi, Susanna Barsella ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    The Ninth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron is significant both for numerological and structural reasons. Whether we consider the Decameron as reproducing an itinerary toward the attainment of virtue or following other possible interpretive schematics, Day Nine remains a liminal moment of pause before the inception of the final stories dedicated to the highest civic virtues of liberality and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Delirious Naples

    A Cultural History of the City of the Sun

    by Erri de Luca, Joseph Rescigno, Andrea Baldi, Simona Frasca, Joseph Connors, Fred Gardaphe, Valerio Caprara, Salvatore Napolitano, Simone Marchesi, Gioia Timpanelli, Gregory Pell, Theresa Aiello, Angelo Cannavacciuolo, Nick Napoli, Jonathan Galassi, Charles Sant'Elia, Patrizia La Trecchia, B. Amore, Gabriella Romani, John Domini, Robert Zweig, Francesco Durante, Jason Pine, Terrence Ward, Ilaria Marchesi, Rose DeAngelis ...
    This book is addressed to “lovers of paradoxes” and we have done our utmost to assemble a stellar cast of Neapolitan and American scholars, intellectuals, and artists/writers who are strong and open-minded enough to wrestle with and illuminate the paradoxes through which Naples presents itself. Naples is a mysterious metropolis. Difficult to understand, it is an enigma to outsiders, and also to ... Read more

    $35.09 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

  • The Oxford Handbook of Dante

    Edited by Manuele Gragnolati, Elena Lombardi, Francesca Southerden ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Dante contains forty-four specially written chapters that provide a thorough and creative reading of Dante's oeuvre. It gathers an intergenerational and international team of scholars encompassing diverse approaches from the fields of Anglo-American, Italian, and continental scholarship and spanning several disciplines: philology, material culture, history, religion, art ... Read more

    $165.59 USD

  • The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri : Volume 3: Paradiso

    Volume 3: Paradiso

    by Ronald L. Martinez; Robert M. Durling; Robert Turner ...
    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

  • Singing Games in Early Modern Italy

    The Music Books of Orazio Vecchi

    by Paul Schleuse ...
    Series series Music and the Early Modern Imagination
    In Italy during the late cinquecento, printed music could be found not only in the homes of the wealthy or the music professional, but also in lay homes, courts, and academies. No longer confined to the salons of the elite, music took on the role of social play and recreation. Paul Schleuse examines these new musical forms through a study of the music books of Italian priest, poet, and composer, ... Read more

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  • Pasolini

    The Sacred Flesh

    by Stefania Benini ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Poet, novelist, dramatist, polemicist, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini continues to be one of the most influential intellectuals of post-war Italy. In Pasolini: The Sacred Flesh, Stefania Benini examines his corporeal vision of the sacred, focusing on his immanent interpretation of the Christian doctrine of the Incarnation and the “sacred flesh” of Christ in both Passion and Death as the ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Worlds of Petrarch

    by Giuseppe Mazzotta ...
    Series Book 14 - Duke Monographs in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
    At the center of Petrarch's vision, announcing a new way of seeing the world, was the individual, a sense of the self that would one day become the center of modernity as well. This self, however, seemed to be fragmented in Petrarch's work, divided among the worlds of philosophy, faith, and love of the classics, politics, art, and religion, of Italy, France, Greece, and Rome. In recent decades ... Read more

    $23.09 USD