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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.
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.
Italian Film in the Present Tense
Price:
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487546199
Pub Date: February 2023
This book explores the Italian film landscape with a focus on cinematic achievements of the twenty-first century.
Feeding Fascism
The Politics of Women’s Food Work
Price:
$36.95
ISBN: 9781487551575
Pub Date: December 2022
Feeding Fascism uses food as a lens to examine how women’s efforts to feed their families became politicized under the Italian dictatorship.
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.
Generations of Empire
Youth from Ottoman to Italian Rule in the Mediterranean
Price:
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487541279
Pub Date: November 2022
Generations of Empire rethinks modern Mediterranean history through changing generational dynamics and representations of youth.
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.
Mussolini, Architect
Propaganda and Urban Landscape in Fascist Italy
Price:
$95.00
ISBN: 9781442631045
Pub Date: July 2022
Mussolini, Architect documents the numerous ways in which Mussolini used architecture to shape Italy and its citizens.
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.
War, Massacre, and Recovery in Central Italy, 1943-1948
Price:
$64.95
ISBN: 9781487547592
Pub Date: May 2022
War, Massacre, and Recovery in Central Italy, 1943-1948 examines this transitional period in the province of Arezzo by detailing the daily experiences of civilians through the traumas of war and the difficulties of recovery.
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.
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 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

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.
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.
Italian Film in the Present Tense
$39.95
ISBN: 9781487546199
Pub Date: February 2023
This book explores the Italian film landscape with a focus on cinematic achievements of the twenty-first century.
Feeding Fascism
The Politics of Women’s Food Work
$36.95
ISBN: 9781487551575
Pub Date: December 2022
Feeding Fascism uses food as a lens to examine how women’s efforts to feed their families became politicized under the Italian dictatorship.
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.
Generations of Empire
Youth from Ottoman to Italian Rule in the Mediterranean
$75.00
ISBN: 9781487541279
Pub Date: November 2022
Generations of Empire rethinks modern Mediterranean history through changing generational dynamics and representations of youth.
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.
Mussolini, Architect
Propaganda and Urban Landscape in Fascist Italy
$95.00
ISBN: 9781442631045
Pub Date: July 2022
Mussolini, Architect documents the numerous ways in which Mussolini used architecture to shape Italy and its citizens.
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.
War, Massacre, and Recovery in Central Italy, 1943-1948
$64.95
ISBN: 9781487547592
Pub Date: May 2022
War, Massacre, and Recovery in Central Italy, 1943-1948 examines this transitional period in the province of Arezzo by detailing the daily experiences of civilians through the traumas of war and the difficulties of recovery.
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.
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 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