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The Queen of Scots
La reina di Scotia
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781487544812
Pub Date: February 2023
This is the first English-language annotated edition of La reina di Scotia, one of the earliest dramatic works depicting the tragic end of Mary Queen of Scots.
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
Joseph Tusiani's Classic Translation
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781487543624
Pub Date: December 2022
This important new edition reintroduces Joseph Tusiani's classic translation of Michelangelo's poetry.
Boccaccio’s Florence
Politics and People in His Life and Work
Price: $104.95
ISBN: 9781487505806
Pub Date: October 2022
Boccaccio’s Florence draws on extensive archival research to reveal Boccaccio as a political figure and to show how deeply politics impacted his life and his work.
A Sudden Frenzy
Improvisation, Orality, and Power in Renaissance Italy
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9781487563448
Pub Date: July 2022
A Sudden Frenzy explores the intellectual and cultural history of improvisation and oral poetry in Renaissance Italy.
Veronica Franco in Dialogue
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781487542580
Pub Date: April 2022
Veronica Franco in Dialogue reconsiders the literary and cultural significance of a well-known sixteenth-century Venetian courtesan and writer.
Culture and Authority in the Baroque
Price: $31.95
ISBN: 9781487544713
Pub Date: September 2021
Culture and Authority in the Baroque explores the baroque across a wide range of disciplines, from poetics to politics, to the rituals of musical, dramatic, and religious performance.
The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781487508715
Pub Date: June 2021
The expert readings in this collection explore the ten stories of Day Six of Boccaccio's Decameron – a day that involves meditations on language, narration, and meaning
The Ugly Woman
Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
Price: $31.95
ISBN: 9781487541941
Pub Date: February 2021
Taking a philological and feminist approach, and drawing on the Bakhtinian concept of the grotesque body and on the poetics of transgression, The Ugly Woman is a unique look at the essential counterdiscourse of the celebrated Italian poetic canon and a valuable contribution to the study of women in literature.
My Karst and My City and Other Essays
Price: $68.00
ISBN: 9781487508227
Pub Date: November 2020
My Karst and My City and Other Essays is the first book available in English on the work of Scipio Slataper, one of the most prominent intellectuals active in Trieste at the turn of the twentieth century.
The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective
Price: $74.00
ISBN: 9781487507473
Pub Date: November 2020
This compilation of eleven essays offers exciting new perspectives on one of the greatest works of Italian literature.
Poetry on Stage
The Theatre of the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde
Price: $89.00
ISBN: 9781487506667
Pub Date: August 2020
Based on meticulous research in the archives of some of the most prominent Italian avant-garde writers, Poetry on Stage examines the literary and ideological climate of the sixties and seventies.
Tuscan Spaces
Literary Constructions of Space
Price: $37.95
ISBN: 9781487526269
Pub Date: August 2020
In Tuscan Spaces, Silvia Ross focuses on constructions of Tuscany in twentieth-century Italian literature and juxtaposes them with English prose works by such authors as E.M. Forster and Frances Mayes to expose the complexity of literary representation centred on a single milieu.
Addressing the Letter
Italian Women Writers' Epistolary Fiction
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781487526276
Pub Date: August 2020
In Addressing the Letter, Laura A. Salsini considers how the works of authors including the Marchesa Colombi, Sibilla Aleramo, Gianna Manzini, Natalia Ginzburg, and Oriana Fallaci highlight such issues as love, the loss of ideals, lack of communication and connection, and feminist ideology.
Dante and Augustine
Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781487526184
Pub Date: August 2020
Examining Dante's life-long dialogue with Augustine from a new point of view, Marchesi goes beyond traditional inquiries to engage more technical questions relating to Dante's evolving ideas on how language, poetry, and interpretation should work.
A Multitude of Women
The Challenges of the Contemporary Italian Novel
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781487526177
Pub Date: August 2020
Lucamante looks at the ways in which both Italian literary tradition and external influences have assisted Italian women writers in rethinking the theoretical and aesthetic ties between author, text, and readership in the construction of the novel.
The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 9781487526306
Pub Date: August 2020
A highly original and comprehensive reading, The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso challenges established scholarly interpretations to demonstrate that the intricacies of Dante's text reveal a subtle irony, employed to deliver a sharp critique of the corrupt church and empire of his own time.

The Queen of Scots
La reina di Scotia
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781487544812
Pub Date: February 2023
This is the first English-language annotated edition of La reina di Scotia, one of the earliest dramatic works depicting the tragic end of Mary Queen of Scots.
The Complete Poems of Michelangelo
Joseph Tusiani's Classic Translation
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781487543624
Pub Date: December 2022
This important new edition reintroduces Joseph Tusiani's classic translation of Michelangelo's poetry.
Boccaccio’s Florence
Politics and People in His Life and Work
Price: $104.95
ISBN: 9781487505806
Pub Date: October 2022
Boccaccio’s Florence draws on extensive archival research to reveal Boccaccio as a political figure and to show how deeply politics impacted his life and his work.
A Sudden Frenzy
Improvisation, Orality, and Power in Renaissance Italy
Price: $70.00
ISBN: 9781487563448
Pub Date: July 2022
A Sudden Frenzy explores the intellectual and cultural history of improvisation and oral poetry in Renaissance Italy.
Veronica Franco in Dialogue
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781487542580
Pub Date: April 2022
Veronica Franco in Dialogue reconsiders the literary and cultural significance of a well-known sixteenth-century Venetian courtesan and writer.
Culture and Authority in the Baroque
Price: $31.95
ISBN: 9781487544713
Pub Date: September 2021
Culture and Authority in the Baroque explores the baroque across a wide range of disciplines, from poetics to politics, to the rituals of musical, dramatic, and religious performance.
The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781487508715
Pub Date: June 2021
The expert readings in this collection explore the ten stories of Day Six of Boccaccio's Decameron – a day that involves meditations on language, narration, and meaning
The Ugly Woman
Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
Price: $31.95
ISBN: 9781487541941
Pub Date: February 2021
Taking a philological and feminist approach, and drawing on the Bakhtinian concept of the grotesque body and on the poetics of transgression, The Ugly Woman is a unique look at the essential counterdiscourse of the celebrated Italian poetic canon and a valuable contribution to the study of women in literature.
My Karst and My City and Other Essays
Price: $68.00
ISBN: 9781487508227
Pub Date: November 2020
My Karst and My City and Other Essays is the first book available in English on the work of Scipio Slataper, one of the most prominent intellectuals active in Trieste at the turn of the twentieth century.
The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective
Price: $74.00
ISBN: 9781487507473
Pub Date: November 2020
This compilation of eleven essays offers exciting new perspectives on one of the greatest works of Italian literature.
Poetry on Stage
The Theatre of the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde
Price: $89.00
ISBN: 9781487506667
Pub Date: August 2020
Based on meticulous research in the archives of some of the most prominent Italian avant-garde writers, Poetry on Stage examines the literary and ideological climate of the sixties and seventies.
Tuscan Spaces
Literary Constructions of Space
Price: $37.95
ISBN: 9781487526269
Pub Date: August 2020
In Tuscan Spaces, Silvia Ross focuses on constructions of Tuscany in twentieth-century Italian literature and juxtaposes them with English prose works by such authors as E.M. Forster and Frances Mayes to expose the complexity of literary representation centred on a single milieu.
Addressing the Letter
Italian Women Writers' Epistolary Fiction
Price: $28.95
ISBN: 9781487526276
Pub Date: August 2020
In Addressing the Letter, Laura A. Salsini considers how the works of authors including the Marchesa Colombi, Sibilla Aleramo, Gianna Manzini, Natalia Ginzburg, and Oriana Fallaci highlight such issues as love, the loss of ideals, lack of communication and connection, and feminist ideology.
Dante and Augustine
Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781487526184
Pub Date: August 2020
Examining Dante's life-long dialogue with Augustine from a new point of view, Marchesi goes beyond traditional inquiries to engage more technical questions relating to Dante's evolving ideas on how language, poetry, and interpretation should work.
A Multitude of Women
The Challenges of the Contemporary Italian Novel
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781487526177
Pub Date: August 2020
Lucamante looks at the ways in which both Italian literary tradition and external influences have assisted Italian women writers in rethinking the theoretical and aesthetic ties between author, text, and readership in the construction of the novel.
The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso
Price: $23.95
ISBN: 9781487526306
Pub Date: August 2020
A highly original and comprehensive reading, The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso challenges established scholarly interpretations to demonstrate that the intricacies of Dante's text reveal a subtle irony, employed to deliver a sharp critique of the corrupt church and empire of his own time.