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The Queen of Scots

The Queen of Scots

La reina di Scotia

by Federico Della Valle

Translated by Fabio Battista

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

The Complete Poems of Michelangelo

Joseph Tusiani's Classic Translation

by Michelangelo Buonarroti

Edited by Gianluca Rizzo

Translated by Joseph Tusiani

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

Boccaccio’s Florence

Politics and People in His Life and Work

by Elsa Filosa

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

A Sudden Frenzy

Improvisation, Orality, and Power in Renaissance Italy

by James K. Coleman

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

Veronica Franco in Dialogue

by Marilyn Migiel

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

Culture and Authority in the Baroque

Edited by Massimo Ciavolella and Patrick Coleman

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

The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective

Edited by David Lummus

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

The Ugly Woman

Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque

by Patrizia Bettella

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

My Karst and My City and Other Essays

by Scipio Slataper

Edited by Elena Coda

Translated by Nicholas Benson

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

The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective

Edited by Michael Sherberg

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

Poetry on Stage

The Theatre of the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde

by Gianluca Rizzo

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

Tuscan Spaces

Literary Constructions of Space

by Silvia M. Ross

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

Addressing the Letter

Italian Women Writers' Epistolary Fiction

by Laura A. Salsini

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

Dante and Augustine

Linguistics, Poetics, Hermeneutics

by Simone Marchesi

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

A Multitude of Women

The Challenges of the Contemporary Italian Novel

by Stefania Lucamante

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

The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso

by Massimo Verdicchio

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.

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