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The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
Spaccio della bestia trionfante
Price:
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487552015
Pub Date: March 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.
On the Heroic Frenzies
A Translation of De gli eroici furori (1585)
Price:
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487552060
Pub Date: October 2023
On the Heroic Frenzies presents the Italian text of Giordiano Bruno’s central work, side-by-side with the English translation.
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 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.
Boccaccio’s Florence
Politics and People in His Life and Work
Price:
$104.95
ISBN: 9781487505806
Pub Date: November 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.
Speaking Spirits
Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy
Price:
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487547585
Pub Date: June 2022
In Speaking Spirits, Sherry Roush presents the first systematic study of early modern Italian eidolopoeia.
A Sudden Frenzy
Improvisation, Orality, and Power in Renaissance Italy
Price:
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487563448
Pub Date: June 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:
$34.95
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:
$79.00
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:
$34.95
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:
$71.00
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:
$78.00
ISBN: 9781487507473
Pub Date: November 2020
This compilation of eleven essays offers exciting new perspectives on one of the greatest works of Italian literature.

The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
Spaccio della bestia trionfante
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487552015
Pub Date: March 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.
On the Heroic Frenzies
A Translation of De gli eroici furori (1585)
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487552060
Pub Date: October 2023
On the Heroic Frenzies presents the Italian text of Giordiano Bruno’s central work, side-by-side with the English translation.
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.
The Queen of Scots
La reina di Scotia
$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.
Boccaccio’s Florence
Politics and People in His Life and Work
$104.95
ISBN: 9781487505806
Pub Date: November 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.
Speaking Spirits
Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487547585
Pub Date: June 2022
In Speaking Spirits, Sherry Roush presents the first systematic study of early modern Italian eidolopoeia.
A Sudden Frenzy
Improvisation, Orality, and Power in Renaissance Italy
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487563448
Pub Date: June 2022
A Sudden Frenzy explores the intellectual and cultural history of improvisation and oral poetry in Renaissance Italy.
Veronica Franco in Dialogue
$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
$34.95
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
$79.00
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
$34.95
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
$71.00
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
$78.00
ISBN: 9781487507473
Pub Date: November 2020
This compilation of eleven essays offers exciting new perspectives on one of the greatest works of Italian literature.