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1	A Venetian Affair more books like this by Andrea Di Robilant add to wishlist When the author's father found a packet of letters in the attic of the ancient family palazzo in Venice, a piece of a many-centuries-old puzzle was put in place. The letters are from a great-great-great-great-great grandfather, Andrea Memmo, to his beautiful young lover, whom he was forbidden to marry because she was not of his class. The two met ... see all copies from £2.14! new only from £5.61! \| first editions
2	Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works more books like this by Francesco Petrarca, Mark Musa (Translator) add to wishlist This entirely new translation includes Petrarch's short autobiographical prose works, The Letter to Posterity and The Ascent of Mount Ventoux , and a selection of twenty-seven poems from the Canzoniere , Petrarch's best-known work in Italian. see all copies from £1.24! new only from £1.24!
3	The Italian Renaissance Reader more books like this by Julia Conaway Bondanella (Editor), Mark Musa (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! new only from £9.06! \| first editions
4	Critical Writings more books like this by F T Marinetti, Gunter Berghaus (Editor), Doug Thompson (Translator) add to wishlist The Futurist movement was founded and promoted by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, beginning in 1909 with the First Futurist Manifesto, in which he inveighed against the complacency of "cultural necrophiliacs" and sought to annihilate the values of the past, writing that "there is no longer any beauty except the struggle. Any work of art that lacks a ... see all copies from £6.19! new only from £6.85! \| first editions
5	Paradise more books like this by Dante Alighieri add to wishlist "If there is any justice in the world of books, [Esolen's] will be the standard Dante . . . for some time to come."-Robert Royal, "Crisis" In this, the concluding volume of "The Divine Comedy," Dante ascends from the devastation of the Inferno and the trials of Purgatory. Led by his beloved Beatrice, he enters Paradise, to profess his faith, hope ... see all copies from £3.11! new only from £6.66! \| first editions
6	The Cambridge Companion to Virgil more books like this by Charles Martindale (Editor) add to wishlist Virgil became a school author in his own lifetime and the centre of the Western canon for the next 1800 years, exerting a major influence on European literature, art, and politics. This Companion is designed as an indispensable guide for anyone seeking a fuller understanding of an author critical to so many disciplines. It consists of essays by ... see all copies from £14.32! new only from £18.81!
7	Eccoci!: Beginning Italian more books like this by Paola Blelloch add to wishlist This dynamic elementary Italian program focuses on activities and tasks in Italian. It uses a lively presentation with a contemporary flavor to present a wide range of innovative and stimulating activities, interesting cultural notes and dialogs in a natural setting. Authentic readings taken from magazines and newspapers emphasize communication ... see all copies from £8.10! new only from £31.78!
8	Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante and Goethe more books like this by Professor George Santayana add to wishlist This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ... see all copies from £6.24! new only from £12.00!
9	Dante : poet of the secular world more books like this by Erich Auerbach add to wishlist Erich Auerbach's "Dante: Poet of the Secular World" is an inspiring introduction to one of world's greatest poets as well as a brilliantly argued and still provocative essay in the history of ideas. Here Auerbach, thought by many to be the greatest of twentieth-century scholar-critics, makes the seemingly paradoxical claim that it is in the poetry ... see all copies from £5.41! new only from £5.41!
10	Dante Alighieri more books like this by Harold Bloom (Editor), Henry W Berg (Editor), Albert A Berg (Editor) add to wishlist - Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world--from the English medievalists to contemporary writers- Introductory essay by Harold Bloom see all copies from £6.44! new only from £7.47!
11 view cover	Listen & Enjoy Italian Poetry more books like this by Dover Publications Inc (Creator) add to wishlist The works of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and other immortal poets appear on a 50-minute CD -- 34 poems by 21 noted authors, in sensitive renditions by Luciano Rebay, professor of Italian literature at Columbia University. The CD comes with Rebay's 160-page dual-language book, containing the original texts with English on facing pages, plus ... see all copies from £9.74! new only from £9.74!
12	Italian Literary Icons more books like this by Gian Paolo Biasin add to wishlist see all copies from £9.66! first editions
13 view cover	This business of living : diaries, 1935-1950 more books like this by Cesare Pavese add to wishlist On June 23rd, 1950, Pavese, Italy's greatest modern writer received the coveted Strega Award for his novel Among Women Only. On August 26th, in a small hotel in his home town of Turin, he took his own life. Shortly before his death, he methodically destroyed all his private papers. His diary is all that remains and for this the contemporary reader ... see all copies from £13.40! new only from £24.38! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry more books like this by Professor T S Eliot, Ronald Schuchard (Editor) add to wishlist While a student at Harvard in the early years of this century, T. S. Eliot immersed himself in the verse of Dante, Donne, and the nineteenth-century French poet Jules Laforgue. His study of the relation of thought and feeling in these poets later led Eliot, as a poet and critic in London, to formulate an original theory of the poetry generally ... see all copies from £6.67! new only from £36.58! \| first editions
15 view cover	In the Grip of Minos: Confessional Discourse in Dante, Corneille, and Racine more books like this by Matthew Senior add to wishlist Tracing the history of confession from the Desert Fathers through the Lateran decree (1215) and the Council of Trent (1543-63), Matthew Senior examines the significance of these events and the role of confessional discourse in works by Dante, Corneille, and Racine. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Senior focuses his study on Minos, the ... see all copies from £11.21! new only from £46.47! \| first editions
16 view cover	Decameron and the Philosophy of Storytelling: Author as Midwife and Pimp more books like this by Richard Francis Kuhns add to wishlist In this creative and engaging reading, Richard Kuhns explores the ways in which Decameron'ssexual themes lead into philosophical inquiry, moral argument, and aesthetic and literary criticism. As he reveals the stories' many philosophical insights and literary pleasures, Kuhns also examines Decameronin the context of the nature of storytelling, ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £8.07! \| first editions
17 view cover	A history of women's writing in Italy more books like this by Letizia Panizza (Editor), Sharon Wood (Editor) add to wishlist A History of Women's Writing in Italy offers a comprehensive historical account of writing by women in Italy. Covering writing from the Middle Ages to the present day, it moves away from narrow definitions of literature, and brings to the reader's attention other forms of expression such as letter writing, religious and devotional writing, ... see all copies from £5.21! new only from £30.60! \| first editions
18 view cover	Persuasion and Rhetoric more books like this by Carlo Michelstaedter add to wishlist Carlo Michelstaedter (1887-1910) committed suicide at the age of 23, days after completing this devastating treatise on the human condition and the course of Western civilisation. This work was deemed to be so radically nihilistic, or so radically idealistic, that publishers shied away from it for decades. This new English translation brings to ... see all copies from £13.53! new only from £13.53! \| first editions
19 view cover	Modern Italian Grammar: A Practical Guide more books like this by Anna Proudfoot add to wishlist Modern Italian Grammar: A Practical Guide is an innovative reference guide to Italian, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. The Grammar is divided into two parts. The shorter section covers traditional grammatical categories such as nouns, verbs and adjectives. The larger section is carefully organised around ... see all copies from £20.57! new only from £20.57! \| first editions
20 view cover	The Other Modernism: F. T. Marinetti's Futurist Fiction of Power more books like this by Cinzia Sartini Blum add to wishlist Drawing on recent feminist and psychoanalytic criticism, Cinzia Sartini Blum provides the first analysis of the rhetoric, politics, and psychology of gender in the avant-garde writings of the Italian Futurist F.T. Marinetti. Her book explores the relations between the seemingly unrelated goals of Italian Futurism: technical revolution, espousal of ... see all copies from £5.18! new only from £8.37! \| first editions
21	From Petrarch to Leonardo Bruni; studies in humanistic and political literature. more books like this by Hans Baron add to wishlist see all copies from £25.54! first editions
22 view cover	Dark Wood to White Rose: Journey and Tranformation in Dante's Divine Comedy more books like this by Helen M Luke add to wishlist Helen Luke takes readers on a journey from the "dark wood" of the ... see all copies from £36.59!
23 view cover	Dante Alighieri: His Life and Works more books like this by Paget Toynbee, Robert Hollander (Introduction by) add to wishlist One of the most frequently cited texts on the great Florentine poet's life and writings, this invaluable study is the work of an influential Dantean scholar. Its concise, accessible account covers historical background, traces the poet's private and public life, and explores the "Vita Nuova, " the "Convivio, " the "Divine Comedy, " and Dante's ... see all copies from £3.09! new only from £9.41!
24 view cover	Between the Real and the Ideal: The Accademia Degli Arcadi and Its Garden in Eighteenth-Century Rome more books like this by Susan M Dixon add to wishlist This book examines the Accademia degli Arcadi in its heyday, a little known phenomenon in Italian history in the first part of the eighteenth century. The Roman academy aimed for a peninsula-wide cultural renewal induced by literary reform. Operating within a papal-court society, it eschewed extant patronage systems and social hierarchies and ... see all copies from £8.07! new only from £10.58! \| first editions
25 view cover	Mystic Vision in the Grail Legend & in the Divine Comedy more books like this by Lizette A Fisher add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE MYSTIC VISION IN THE DIVINE COMEDY Jesu, quern velatum minc aspicio, Oro, fiat illud quod tarn sitio Ut, te revelata cernens facie, Visu aim beatus tuae gloria;. ... see all copies from £10.95! new only from £10.95! \| first editions

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