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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.
Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi
Price:
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487503512
Pub Date: February 2024
This book explores the tense relationship between opera and tragedy – often described as antithetical forms of theatre – from the 1630s to the 1780s.
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.
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.
Heroic Awe
The Sublime and the Remaking of Renaissance Epic
Price:
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487545369
Pub Date: December 2022
Heroic Awe studies the impact of the philosophy of the sublime on the genre of Renaissance epic poetry.
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 Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective
Price:
$80.00
ISBN: 9781487540494
Pub Date: June 2022
This collection of original essays from leading scholars breaks new ground in our understanding of the tales belonging to the Ninth Day of the Decameron.
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.
Modernist Idealism
Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature
Price:
$89.00
ISBN: 9781487528652
Pub Date: November 2021
Modernist Idealism develops a framework for understanding modernist production as the artistic realization of philosophical concepts elaborated in German idealism.
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
Measured Words
Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy
Price:
$37.95
ISBN: 9781487541958
Pub Date: June 2021
Measured Words brings together rarely discussed Renaissance thinkers to show both the commonalities within and the variety of the conversations between computation and writing.
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.
Casanova in the Enlightenment
From the Margins to the Centre
Price:
$66.00
ISBN: 9781487506643
Pub Date: December 2020
This book interrogates the enduring and controversial legend of Casanova, from a seducer of women to a man of science and key participant in the Enlightenment.

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.
Opera, Tragedy, and Neighbouring Forms from Corneille to Calzabigi
$95.00
ISBN: 9781487503512
Pub Date: February 2024
This book explores the tense relationship between opera and tragedy – often described as antithetical forms of theatre – from the 1630s to the 1780s.
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.
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.
Heroic Awe
The Sublime and the Remaking of Renaissance Epic
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487545369
Pub Date: December 2022
Heroic Awe studies the impact of the philosophy of the sublime on the genre of Renaissance epic poetry.
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.
The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective
$80.00
ISBN: 9781487540494
Pub Date: June 2022
This collection of original essays from leading scholars breaks new ground in our understanding of the tales belonging to the Ninth Day of the Decameron.
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.
Modernist Idealism
Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature
$89.00
ISBN: 9781487528652
Pub Date: November 2021
Modernist Idealism develops a framework for understanding modernist production as the artistic realization of philosophical concepts elaborated in German idealism.
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
Measured Words
Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy
$37.95
ISBN: 9781487541958
Pub Date: June 2021
Measured Words brings together rarely discussed Renaissance thinkers to show both the commonalities within and the variety of the conversations between computation and writing.
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.
Casanova in the Enlightenment
From the Margins to the Centre
$66.00
ISBN: 9781487506643
Pub Date: December 2020
This book interrogates the enduring and controversial legend of Casanova, from a seducer of women to a man of science and key participant in the Enlightenment.