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Collected Works of Erasmus
Controversies, Volume 79
Price:
$225.00
ISBN: 9781487559250
Pub Date: May 2025
The latest volume in the Collected Works of Erasmus series sheds light on the controversy between sixteenth-century biblical translations and the ensuing clash between scholastics and humanists.
Clever Little Books
Martial’s Epigrams and Sexual Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Price:
$80.00
ISBN: 9781487558338
Pub Date: November 2024
Clever Little Books explores the role of Latin commentaries on the Roman poet Martial as a medium for the transmission of sexual knowledge among a male elite in early modern Europe.
The Unfolding of Words
Commentary in the Age of Erasmus
Price:
$44.95
ISBN: 9781487565251
Pub Date: August 2024
The Unfolding of Words brings together international scholarship to explore crucial changes in writers' interactions with religious and classical texts.
On the Heroic Frenzies
A Translation of De gli eroici furori (1585)
Price:
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487552060
Pub Date: December 2023
On the Heroic Frenzies presents the Italian text of Giordiano Bruno’s central work, side-by-side with the English translation.
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
Joseph Tusiani's Classic Translation
Price:
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487543617
Pub Date: March 2023
This important new edition reintroduces Joseph Tusiani's classic translation of Michelangelo's poetry.
Collected Works of Erasmus
Controversies, Volume 74
Price:
$195.00
ISBN: 9781487546298
Pub Date: January 2023
This volume contains the first translation of Erasmus' response to two of his fiercest Spanish critics.
The Republic of Venice
De magistratibus et republica Venetorum
Price:
$27.95
ISBN: 9781487546021
Pub Date: June 2022
This book provides an alternative understanding to Machiavelli’s Renaissance Italy.
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2940 to 3141, Volume 21
Price:
$263.00
ISBN: 9781487507664
Pub Date: December 2021
This final volume of the Correspondence subseries of the Collected Works of Erasmus includes the letters from Erasmus’ final years.
Erasmus on Literature
His Ratio or ‘System’ of 1518/1519
Price:
$42.95
ISBN: 9781487522100
Pub Date: April 2021
Written more than half a century before Sir Philip Sidney’s well-known Apology for Poetry, Erasmus’ Ratio or ‘System’ is an almost lost masterpiece of Renaissance literary theory and interpretive practice, now available for the first time in English in a convenient student edition.
Affective Geographies
Cervantes, Emotion, and the Literary Mediterranean
Price:
$79.00
ISBN: 9781487507510
Pub Date: February 2021
By reading the works of Miguel de Cervantes through the history of emotion, this book defies a series of long-standing commonplaces about the author’s writing and the Mediterranean region at large.
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2803 to 2939, Volume 20
Price:
$248.00
ISBN: 9781487505851
Pub Date: July 2020
The thirteen months covered in this volume reveal the decline of Erasmus' health and the creation of his most famous work, On Preparing for Death.
The Court and Its Critics
Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy
Price:
$83.00
ISBN: 9781487505448
Pub Date: March 2020
The Court and Its Critics focuses on the disillusionment with courtliness, the derision of those who live at court, and the open hostility toward the court, themes common to Renaissance culture.
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2635 to 2802, Volume 19
Price:
$256.00
ISBN: 9781487504588
Pub Date: November 2019
This volume includes Erasmus’s correspondence for the months April 1532 to April 1533.
The First Voyage around the World, 1519-1522
An Account of Magellan's Expedition
Price:
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487525408
Pub Date: November 2019
The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies.
Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama
Price:
$68.00
ISBN: 9781487503482
Pub Date: October 2019
Thoughtful and thorough, Untimely Death in Renaissance Drama explores the interplay between historiography and Renaissance English drama.
Solitude and Speechlessness
Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation
Price:
$85.00
ISBN: 9781487504045
Pub Date: July 2019
Solitude and Speechlessness argues that experiences of isolation are inherent to the writing and reading of Renaissance literature, and finds parallels and meaning in the lives of solitary figures including poets, ascetics, and hermits.
Collected Works of Erasmus
Controversies, Volume 79
$225.00
ISBN: 9781487559250
Pub Date: May 2025
Clever Little Books
Martial’s Epigrams and Sexual Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
$80.00
ISBN: 9781487558338
Pub Date: November 2024
The Unfolding of Words
Commentary in the Age of Erasmus
$44.95
ISBN: 9781487565251
Pub Date: August 2024
On the Heroic Frenzies
A Translation of De gli eroici furori (1585)
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487552060
Pub Date: December 2023
On the Heroic Frenzies presents the Italian text of Giordiano Bruno’s central work, side-by-side with the English translation.
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
Joseph Tusiani's Classic Translation
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487543617
Pub Date: March 2023
This important new edition reintroduces Joseph Tusiani's classic translation of Michelangelo's poetry.
Collected Works of Erasmus
Controversies, Volume 74
$195.00
ISBN: 9781487546298
Pub Date: January 2023
This volume contains the first translation of Erasmus' response to two of his fiercest Spanish critics.
The Republic of Venice
De magistratibus et republica Venetorum
$27.95
ISBN: 9781487546021
Pub Date: June 2022
This book provides an alternative understanding to Machiavelli’s Renaissance Italy.
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2940 to 3141, Volume 21
$263.00
ISBN: 9781487507664
Pub Date: December 2021
This final volume of the Correspondence subseries of the Collected Works of Erasmus includes the letters from Erasmus’ final years.
Erasmus on Literature
His Ratio or ‘System’ of 1518/1519
$42.95
ISBN: 9781487522100
Pub Date: April 2021
Written more than half a century before Sir Philip Sidney’s well-known Apology for Poetry, Erasmus’ Ratio or ‘System’ is an almost lost masterpiece of Renaissance literary theory and interpretive practice, now available for the first time in English in a convenient student edition.
Affective Geographies
Cervantes, Emotion, and the Literary Mediterranean
$79.00
ISBN: 9781487507510
Pub Date: February 2021
By reading the works of Miguel de Cervantes through the history of emotion, this book defies a series of long-standing commonplaces about the author’s writing and the Mediterranean region at large.
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2803 to 2939, Volume 20
$248.00
ISBN: 9781487505851
Pub Date: July 2020
The thirteen months covered in this volume reveal the decline of Erasmus' health and the creation of his most famous work, On Preparing for Death.
The Court and Its Critics
Anti-Court Sentiments in Early Modern Italy
$83.00
ISBN: 9781487505448
Pub Date: March 2020
The Court and Its Critics focuses on the disillusionment with courtliness, the derision of those who live at court, and the open hostility toward the court, themes common to Renaissance culture.
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2635 to 2802, Volume 19
$256.00
ISBN: 9781487504588
Pub Date: November 2019
This volume includes Erasmus’s correspondence for the months April 1532 to April 1533.
The First Voyage around the World, 1519-1522
An Account of Magellan's Expedition
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487525408
Pub Date: November 2019
The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies.
Untimely Deaths in Renaissance Drama
$68.00
ISBN: 9781487503482
Pub Date: October 2019
Thoughtful and thorough, Untimely Death in Renaissance Drama explores the interplay between historiography and Renaissance English drama.
Solitude and Speechlessness
Renaissance Writing and Reading in Isolation
$85.00
ISBN: 9781487504045
Pub Date: July 2019
Solitude and Speechlessness argues that experiences of isolation are inherent to the writing and reading of Renaissance literature, and finds parallels and meaning in the lives of solitary figures including poets, ascetics, and hermits.