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The Stones of Venice
Price:
$150.00
ISBN: 9781487547196
Pub Date: March 2025
This updated and unabridged edition of The Stones of Venice introduces new readers to John Ruskin’s classic Victorian text.
Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing
A Reassessment
Price:
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487506834
Pub Date: December 2024
Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing analyses the themes of food and emotion in fiction, poetry, and historical writing by Italian women over a period of one hundred years.
Gothic Italy
Crime, Science, and Literature after Unification, 1861–1914
Price:
$65.00
ISBN: 9781487558635
Pub Date: November 2024
Gothic Italy explores how the Gothic permeated and shaped the project of nation-building in the aftermath of Italy’s unification.
Pulcinella’s Brood
Popular Culture in the Enlightenment
Price:
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487555788
Pub Date: November 2024
This book traces the transnational arc of the Neapolitan clown Pulcinella in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, exploring how this unlikely hero and his brood engaged with questions that defined the Enlightenment in Europe.
Sing Me Back Home
Ethnographic Songwriting and Sardinian Language Politics
Price:
$32.95
ISBN: 9781487553869
Pub Date: October 2024
This multi-sensory ethnography invites readers and listeners to discover the Italian island of Sardinia through storytelling, music, and song.
Tropes of Engagement
Chaucer’s Italian Poetics of Intertextuality
Price:
$115.00
ISBN: 9781487552602
Pub Date: July 2024
Exploring the work of Chaucer and Boccaccio, Tropes of Engagement redefines our understanding of textual influence by examining modes, rather than evidence, of authorial engagement.
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
Spaccio della bestia trionfante
Price:
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487552015
Pub Date: May 2024
In this work of moral philosophy, Giordano Bruno condemns both the ancient and the modern worlds for filling their skies with bestial vices, and narrates a mythical drama of universal reform designed to replace them with their respective virtues.
Ransom Kidnapping in Italy
Crime, Memory, and Violence
Price:
$42.95
ISBN: 9781487546847
Pub Date: January 2024
This book analyses the media, cultural, and testimonial narratives of ransom kidnapping in Italy, a phenomenon linked to banditry and organized crime that terrorized the country for decades.
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.
Ariosto in the Machine Age
Price:
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487546793
Pub Date: October 2023
Ariosto in the Machine Age reimagines reception theory through the modern afterlife of a Renaissance literary icon.
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court
Price:
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487547301
Pub Date: October 2023
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court reconstructs the life, work, and legacy of an extraordinary woman and prolific writer of the seventeenth century.
Seeing Through Closed Eyelids
Giuseppe Penone and the Nature of Sculpture
Price:
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487556969
Pub Date: June 2023
This book provides a material and social history of the art of Giuseppe Penone, a leading protagonist of Arte Povera, whose work explores the interconnectedness of humans and the phenomenal world.
Courting Celebrity
The Autobiographies of Angela Veronese and Teresa Bandettini
Price:
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487546403
Pub Date: March 2023
This is the first bilingual annotated edition of two landmark autobiographies by late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Italian women poets.
On Amistà
Negotiating Friendship in Dante’s Italy
Price:
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487548179
Pub Date: March 2023
On Amistà comprehensively examines the value of friendship in late medieval Italy.
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
Joseph Tusiani's Classic Translation
Price:
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487543624
Pub Date: March 2023
This important new edition reintroduces Joseph Tusiani's classic translation of Michelangelo's poetry.
Jacopo Caviceo's Peregrino
Annotated English Edition and Translation
Price:
$115.00
ISBN: 9781487505752
Pub Date: March 2023
This unabridged, annotated English translation of Jacopo Caviceo’s Peregrino brings this popular Italian Renaissance romance to English readers for the first time.
The Stones of Venice
$150.00
ISBN: 9781487547196
Pub Date: March 2025
Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing
A Reassessment
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487506834
Pub Date: December 2024
Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing analyses the themes of food and emotion in fiction, poetry, and historical writing by Italian women over a period of one hundred years.
Gothic Italy
Crime, Science, and Literature after Unification, 1861–1914
$65.00
ISBN: 9781487558635
Pub Date: November 2024
Pulcinella’s Brood
Popular Culture in the Enlightenment
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487555788
Pub Date: November 2024
Sing Me Back Home
Ethnographic Songwriting and Sardinian Language Politics
$32.95
ISBN: 9781487553869
Pub Date: October 2024
Tropes of Engagement
Chaucer’s Italian Poetics of Intertextuality
$115.00
ISBN: 9781487552602
Pub Date: July 2024
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
Spaccio della bestia trionfante
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487552015
Pub Date: May 2024
In this work of moral philosophy, Giordano Bruno condemns both the ancient and the modern worlds for filling their skies with bestial vices, and narrates a mythical drama of universal reform designed to replace them with their respective virtues.
Ransom Kidnapping in Italy
Crime, Memory, and Violence
$42.95
ISBN: 9781487546847
Pub Date: January 2024
This book analyses the media, cultural, and testimonial narratives of ransom kidnapping in Italy, a phenomenon linked to banditry and organized crime that terrorized the country for decades.
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.
Ariosto in the Machine Age
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487546793
Pub Date: October 2023
Ariosto in the Machine Age reimagines reception theory through the modern afterlife of a Renaissance literary icon.
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487547301
Pub Date: October 2023
Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court reconstructs the life, work, and legacy of an extraordinary woman and prolific writer of the seventeenth century.
Seeing Through Closed Eyelids
Giuseppe Penone and the Nature of Sculpture
$34.95
ISBN: 9781487556969
Pub Date: June 2023
This book provides a material and social history of the art of Giuseppe Penone, a leading protagonist of Arte Povera, whose work explores the interconnectedness of humans and the phenomenal world.
Courting Celebrity
The Autobiographies of Angela Veronese and Teresa Bandettini
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487546403
Pub Date: March 2023
This is the first bilingual annotated edition of two landmark autobiographies by late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Italian women poets.
On Amistà
Negotiating Friendship in Dante’s Italy
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487548179
Pub Date: March 2023
On Amistà comprehensively examines the value of friendship in late medieval Italy.
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
Joseph Tusiani's Classic Translation
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487543624
Pub Date: March 2023
This important new edition reintroduces Joseph Tusiani's classic translation of Michelangelo's poetry.
Jacopo Caviceo's Peregrino
Annotated English Edition and Translation
$115.00
ISBN: 9781487505752
Pub Date: March 2023
This unabridged, annotated English translation of Jacopo Caviceo’s Peregrino brings this popular Italian Renaissance romance to English readers for the first time.