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Aminta

Torquato Tasso

• Paperback | Engels | Documentary History of Naples
• TASSO'S MASTERPIECE Aminta is perhaps the most famous pastoral play ever. It is also the work that launched the reputation of the author of the famed ... Lees meer

Aiol

• Paperback | Engels
• This "chanson de geste" records the exploits of the young knight, Aiol, as he reclaims his father's and mother's unjustly stolen heritage. He gains th... Lees meer

Elye of Saint-Gilles

• Paperback | Engels
• "Elye of Saint-Gilles" tells the story of Elye - the son of Count Julien of Saint-Gilles, a vassal of William of Orange - and of his exploits during h... Lees meer

The Chronicle of an Anonymous Roman

Anonimo Romano

• Hardcover | Engels | Medieval and Renaissance Texts
• The Chronicle of an Anonymous Roman is a treasure of history writing and of medieval Italian literature. It was written by an unknown fourteenth-centu... Lees meer

The Song of Roland

Chanson de Roland English

• Paperback | Engels
• "The Song of Roland" is acknowledged today as the first masterpiece of French vernacular literature and one of the world's greatest epic poems. The ea... Lees meer

Ivy

Grazia Deledda

• Hardcover | Engels | Italica Press Modern Italian Fiction
• Annesa, one of Grazia Deledda's most enigmatic and dramatic characters, battles with a guilt she suffers when her own strength tempts her to a crime t... Lees meer

Baroque Naples

Jeanne Chenault Porter

• Paperback | Engels | Documentary History of Naples
• "Baroque Naples" presents documents on the history, culture, and art of the city during its golden age of prestige and prosperity under the Spanish Ha... Lees meer

Watching the Moon and Other Plays

Massimo Bontempelli

• Paperback | Engels
• Massimo Bontempelli (1878-1960), poet, novelist, playwright and composer would become one of the literary giants of the twentieth century. The father ... Lees meer

The Sack of Rome

Luigi Guicciardini

• Paperback | Engels
• On May 5, 1527 Spanish, German, and Italian troops under the banner of the Holy Roman Emperor swarmed into Rome. Until December, when they were finall... Lees meer

Letters on Familiar Matters (Rerum Familiarium Libri), Vol. 2, Books IX-XVI

Francesco Petrarch

• Paperback | Engels
• THIS TRANSLATION makes available for the first time to English-speaking readers Petrarch's earliest and perhaps most important collection of prose let... Lees meer

Women Poets of the Italian Renaissance

• Hardcover | Engels
• This dual-language collection presents the rich flowering of women's poetry during the Italian Renaissance: from the love lyrics of famous courtly lad... Lees meer

New Italian Women

Grazia Deledda, Dacia Maraini

• Paperback | Engels | Women Writers
• "New Italian Women" is a collection of twenty-four stories by seventeen contemporary Italian women celebrates a high level of accomplishment that draw... Lees meer

Visions of Heaven & Hell before Dante

Venerable Bede, Gregory the Great

• Paperback | Engels
• This essential and widely used collection of visions of heaven and hell, the first in English, presents new translations of two visions and newly edit... Lees meer

The Book of Mara

Ada Negri

• Hardcover | Engels
• Ada Negri, the author of ten volumes of poetry who enjoyed an international reputation for her frank and passionate writing, had a tormented love affa... Lees meer

Writing Southern Italy Before the Renaissance

Ronald G Musto

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Art and History
• Writing Southern Italy before the Renaissance is the first comprehensive book in English to examine the works of trecento historians of the Mezzogiorn... Lees meer

The Pilgrim's Way to St. Patrick's Purgatory

Eileen Gardiner

• Hardcover | Engels
• "The Pilgrim's Way to St. Patrick's Purgatory" traces a route for the modern pilgrim across Ireland and across the boundaries of the Irish Republic an... Lees meer

On Famous Women

Giovanni Boccaccio

• Paperback | Engels
• Boccaccio's "On Famous Women" ("De claris mulieribus") is a remarkable work that contains the lives of one hundred and six women in myth and history, ... Lees meer

Barbarossa in Italy

Bergamo Master

• Paperback | Engels
• "Barbarossa in Italy" presents a verse translation of the "Carmen de gestis Frederici I imperatoris in Lombardia." This Latin poem describes the confl... Lees meer

In Old Paris

Jean de Jandun, Guillebert de Mets

• Paperback | Engels
• "In Old Paris" presents five descriptions of the city from 1323 to 1790. These include A Treatise of the Praises of Paris by Jean de Jandun (1323), Th... Lees meer

On Religious Leisure (De otio religioso)

Francesco Petrarch

• Paperback | Engels
• AT SOME POINT in January or early February of 1347, Petrarch briefly visited the remote Carthusian monastery of Montrieux, where, four years before, h... Lees meer

Sparrow

Giovanni Verga

• Paperback | Engels
• SET IN and around Catania, Sicily, on the verge of the Italian Risorgimento, Sparrow, first published as "Storia di una capinera" in 1870, tells the s... Lees meer

Fierabras and Floripas

• Paperback | Engels
• "Fierabras and Floripas" relates the tale of two Saracen siblings who join forces with Charlemagne and his Peers. It was the most successful French ep... Lees meer

Convivial Poems

Giovanni Pascoli

• Paperback | Engels | Italian Poetry in Translation
• Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912) is renowned as one of the founders of modern Italian poetry. Embodying the Zeitgeist of fin-de-siècle Italy, his works ar... Lees meer

Petrarch's Two Gardens

William Tronzo

• Hardcover | Engels
• The four essays that make up this book take as their subject gardens of the Middle Ages and Renaissance whose traces are still visible, in varying deg... Lees meer