Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
This series makes available to English audiences groundbreaking works by Italian authors who have made significant literary, philosophical, or historical contributions. It includes works by authors already recognized in Anglo-American culture but currently unavailable in English (Aretino, Bruno, Machiavelli, Pirandello, Verga); works that promote Anglo-Italian dialogue (Aretino, Florio, Leone Ebreo, Leopardi, Nievo, Platina, Serao); works largely unknown in English (Andreini, Artusi, Beccaria, Galliani, Goldoni); works by Italian humanists who have influenced Anglo-American letters (Alberti, Petrarch, Piccolomini, Della Porta); works by internationally influential Italian theorists and essayists (Bobbio, Bodei, Cafiero, Cattaneo, Croce, Gobetti, Salvemini); and select works by non-Italian authors who have significantly shaped Italy’s image in the world (Douglas, Heine, Montesquieu, de Sade, Stendhal, Twain).
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The Stones of Venice
Price:
$150.00
ISBN: 9781487547196
Pub Date: February 2025
This updated and unabridged edition of The Stones of Venice introduces new readers to John Ruskin’s classic Victorian text.
An Intellectual against Fascism
Selected Writings
Price:
$100.00
ISBN: 9781487560478
Pub Date: April 2025
This book presents a comprehensive collection of Piero Gobetti’s writings in English, featuring over thirty articles spanning his entire journalistic career, and a translation of his magnum opus, La Rivoluzione Liberale.
Life
Price:
$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.
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.
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.
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 Republic of Venice
De magistratibus et republica Venetorum
Price:
$27.95
ISBN: 9781487546021
Pub Date: June 2022
This book provides an alternative understanding to Machiavelli’s Renaissance Italy.
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 First Voyage around the World, 1519-1522
An Account of Magellan's Expedition
Price:
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487525408
Pub Date: November 2019
The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies.
Journey to Italy
Price:
$138.00
ISBN: 9781487505974
Pub Date: May 2020
Available for the first time in English, the Marquis de Sade’s Journey to Italy provides new insight into the early life and career of this famous radical libertine writer.
Breviary of Aesthetics
Four Lectures
Price:
$21.95
ISBN: 9781487526108
Pub Date: April 2020
In this edition, the Breviary of Aesthetics is presented in a brand new English translation and accompanied by informative endnotes that discuss many of the philosophers, writers, and works cited by Croce in his original text.
Geometry of the Passions
Fear, Hope, Happiness: Philosophy and Political Use
Price:
$147.00
ISBN: 9781487503369
Pub Date: July 2018
The passions have long been condemned as the creator of disturbance and the purveyor of the temporary loss of reason, but, as Remo Bodei argues in Geometry of the Passions, we must abandon the perception that order and disorder are in a constant state of collision.
The Complete Poetry of Giacomo da Lentini
Price:
$32.95
ISBN: 9781487522865
Pub Date: May 2018
This volume presents the first translation in English of the complete poetry of Giacomo da Lentini, the first major lyric poet of the Italian vernacular.
The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society
Price:
$134.00
ISBN: 9781487503185
Pub Date: November 2018
Containing a comprehensive introduction by Nicoletta Pireddu, this volume includes Sighele’s seminal work, The Criminal Crowd, as well as his formative studies on group behaviour.
Renaissance Comedy
The Italian Masters - Volume 1
Price:
$53.00
ISBN: 9780802094841
Pub Date: March 2008
As a much-needed reappraisal of these comedic plays, Renaissance Comedy is an invaluable look at the performance history of the Renaissance and Italian culture in general.

The Stones of Venice
$150.00
ISBN: 9781487547196
Pub Date: February 2025
An Intellectual against Fascism
Selected Writings
$100.00
ISBN: 9781487560478
Pub Date: April 2025
Life
$90.00
ISBN: 9781487556341
Pub Date: November 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.
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.
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.
The Republic of Venice
De magistratibus et republica Venetorum
$27.95
ISBN: 9781487546021
Pub Date: June 2022
This book provides an alternative understanding to Machiavelli’s Renaissance Italy.
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 First Voyage around the World, 1519-1522
An Account of Magellan's Expedition
$49.95
ISBN: 9781487525408
Pub Date: November 2019
The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies.
Journey to Italy
$138.00
ISBN: 9781487505974
Pub Date: May 2020
Available for the first time in English, the Marquis de Sade’s Journey to Italy provides new insight into the early life and career of this famous radical libertine writer.
Breviary of Aesthetics
Four Lectures
$21.95
ISBN: 9781487526108
Pub Date: April 2020
In this edition, the Breviary of Aesthetics is presented in a brand new English translation and accompanied by informative endnotes that discuss many of the philosophers, writers, and works cited by Croce in his original text.
Geometry of the Passions
Fear, Hope, Happiness: Philosophy and Political Use
$147.00
ISBN: 9781487503369
Pub Date: July 2018
The passions have long been condemned as the creator of disturbance and the purveyor of the temporary loss of reason, but, as Remo Bodei argues in Geometry of the Passions, we must abandon the perception that order and disorder are in a constant state of collision.
The Complete Poetry of Giacomo da Lentini
$32.95
ISBN: 9781487522865
Pub Date: May 2018
The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society
$134.00
ISBN: 9781487503185
Pub Date: November 2018
Containing a comprehensive introduction by Nicoletta Pireddu, this volume includes Sighele’s seminal work, The Criminal Crowd, as well as his formative studies on group behaviour.
Renaissance Comedy
The Italian Masters - Volume 1
$53.00
ISBN: 9780802094841
Pub Date: March 2008
As a much-needed reappraisal of these comedic plays, Renaissance Comedy is an invaluable look at the performance history of the Renaissance and Italian culture in general.