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  • The Divine Mimesis

    Translated by Thomas E. Peterson ...
    Series Book 1 - Critical Century
    In The Divine Mimesis, Pasolini reimagines Dante’s descent into Hell not as allegory but as lived, historical reality—urban, political, and deeply personal. Written in the final years of his life, this unfinished and fiercely experimental work leads us through the wreckage of modern Italy: housing projects, consumer culture, political betrayal, the spiritual void left in the wake of fascism and ... Read more

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  • Petrarch's 'Fragmenta'

    The Narrative and Theological Unity of 'Rerum vulgarium fragmenta'

    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, a collection of lyric poems on sacred and profane love and other subjects, has traditionally been viewed as reflecting the conflicted nature of its author. However, award winning author Thomas E. Peterson argues that Petrarch’s Fragmenta is an ordered and coherent work unified by narrative and theological structures.By concentrating on the poem’s reliance on ... Read more

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    Essays of Michel De Montaigne Michel De Montaigne Translated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazlitt 1877 The Essays of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of variable length. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising the Essays over the period from approximately 1570 to 1592 was to record for the 'private benefit of friends and kinsmen . ... Read more

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  • The World Beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto

    This study offers a sustained examination of the presentation of eastern Asia, the Middle East, and northern Africa in two of the most important chivalric epics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato (1495) and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1516). Comparing the narratological strategies used to depict non-European characters in these stories, Jo ... Read more

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  • Serious Play

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

    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

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  • The English Boccaccio

    A History in Books

    The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio has had a long and colourful history in English translation. This new interdisciplinary study presents the first exploration of the reception of Boccaccio’s writings in English literary culture, tracing his presence from the early fifteenth century to the 1930s. Guyda Armstrong tells this story through a wide-ranging journey through time and space – from the ... Read more

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  • The Ethical Dimension of the 'Decameron'

    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    With The Ethical Dimension of the “Decameron” Marilyn Migiel, author of A Rhetoric of the “Decameron” (winner of the MLA’s 2004 Marraro Prize), returns to Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices that the Decameron creates with us and that we, as individuals and as groups, create with the Decameron.Maintaining that we can examine this dialogue to ... Read more

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  • Dantean Dialogues

    Engaging with the Legacy of Amilcare Iannucci

    Dantean Dialogues is a collection of essays by some of the world's most outstanding Dante scholars., These essays enter into conversation with the main themes of the scholarship of Amilcare Iannucci (d. 2007), one of the leading researchers on Dante of his generation and arguably Canada’s finest scholar of the Italian poet.The essays focus on the major themes of Iannucci’s work, including the ... Read more

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  • Dante's Lyric Poetry

    Poems of Youth and of the 'Vita Nuova'

    Translated by Richard Lansing ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante’s early verse to be published in almost fifty years, Dante’s Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c. 1283 and c. 1292. Essays by Teodolinda Barolini guide the reader through the new verse translations by Richard Lansing, illuminating Dante’s transformation from a young courtly poet into ... Read more

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  • Approaches to Teaching Petrarch's Canzoniere and the Petrarchan Tradition

    Series Book 129 - Approaches to Teaching World Literature
    One of the most important authors of the Middle Ages, Petrarch occupies a complex position: historically, he is a medieval author, but, philosophically, he heralds humanism and the Renaissance. Teachers of Petrarch's Canzoniere and his formative influence on the canon of Western European poetry face particular challenges. Petrarch's poetic style brings together the classical tradition, ... Read more

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  • Moral Play and Counterpublic

    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative views on ethics, economics, social rank, and political obligation. From its inception in itinerate ... Read more

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  • Speaking Spirits

    Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy

    by Sherry Roush ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    In classical and early modern rhetoric, to write or speak using the voice of a dead individual is known as eidolopoeia. Whether through ghost stories, journeys to another world, or dream visions, Renaissance writers frequently used this rhetorical device not only to co-opt the authority of their predecessors but in order to express partisan or politically dangerous arguments.In Speaking Spirits, ... Read more

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