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The Ecology of Italian Science Fiction
Price:
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487554705
Pub Date: May 2025
This book illuminates interactions between Italian environmental history and science fiction, offering fresh insights into how literary imagination has addressed ecological changes in the latter half of the twentieth century.
Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing
A Reassessment
Price:
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487506834
Pub Date: February 2025
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
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$65.00
ISBN: 9781487558635
Pub Date: December 2024
Gothic Italy explores how the Gothic permeated and shaped the project of nation-building in the aftermath of Italy’s unification.
Boccaccio Defends Literature
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$90.00
ISBN: 9781487558918
Pub Date: November 2024
This book unveils Boccaccio’s defence of literature against claims of immorality by showcasing how both pagan and Christian literary works serve to heal, console, and provoke thoughtfulness.
Life
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$90.00
ISBN: 9781487556341
Pub Date: November 2024
Life presents a first-hand, dramatic account of the privileged life and development of a literary mind in late eighteenth-century Europe from an Italian perspective.
Hopeless Love
Boiardo, Ariosto, and Narratives of Queer Female Desire
Price:
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487565176
Pub Date: August 2024
Hopeless Love uncovers the diffusion of queer female desire in Italian literature and promotes a better understanding of sexuality in medieval and Renaissance Europe.
Tropes of Engagement
Chaucer’s Italian Poetics of Intertextuality
Price:
$115.00
ISBN: 9781487552602
Pub Date: June 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.
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.
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:
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487543617
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.
The Ecology of Italian Science Fiction
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487554705
Pub Date: May 2025
Food and Emotions in Italian Women's Writing
A Reassessment
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487506834
Pub Date: February 2025
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: December 2024
Boccaccio Defends Literature
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487558918
Pub Date: November 2024
Life
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487556341
Pub Date: November 2024
Hopeless Love
Boiardo, Ariosto, and Narratives of Queer Female Desire
$29.95
ISBN: 9781487565176
Pub Date: August 2024
Hopeless Love uncovers the diffusion of queer female desire in Italian literature and promotes a better understanding of sexuality in medieval and Renaissance Europe.
Tropes of Engagement
Chaucer’s Italian Poetics of Intertextuality
$115.00
ISBN: 9781487552602
Pub Date: June 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.
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.
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
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487543617
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.