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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.
Mussolini, Architect
Propaganda and Urban Landscape in Fascist Italy
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9781442631045
Pub Date: September 2022
Mussolini, Architect documents the numerous ways in which Mussolini used architecture to shape Italy and its citizens.
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.
Feeding Fascism
The Politics of Women’s Food Work
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781487528188
Pub Date: February 2022
Feeding Fascism uses food as a lens to examine how women’s efforts to feed their families became politicized under the Italian dictatorship.
Modernist Idealism
Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature
Price: $85.00
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: $34.95
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: $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
Galeazzo Ciano
The Fascist Pretender
Price: $85.00
ISBN: 9781487507985
Pub Date: May 2021
Through the prism of the rise and fall of Galeazzo Ciano (1903–1944), this biography is a comprehensive study of a leading member of the fascist regime other than Benito Mussolini.
Seeing Through Closed Eyelids
Giuseppe Penone and the Nature of Sculpture
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781487500580
Pub Date: April 2021
This book provides a material and social history of the art of Giuseppe Penone, a leading protagonist of Arte Povera, whose work explores the interconnectedness of humans and the phenomenal world.
The Ugly Woman
Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
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.
The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective
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.
Tuscan Spaces
Literary Constructions of Space
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.
Italian Neorealism
A Cultural History
Price: $89.00
ISBN: 9781487507107
Pub Date: July 2020
This book seeks to redefine, recontextualize, and reassess Italian neorealism – an artistic movement characterized by stories set among the poor and working class – through innovative close readings and comparative analysis.
Poetry on Stage
The Theatre of the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde
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.

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.
Mussolini, Architect
Propaganda and Urban Landscape in Fascist Italy
Price: $95.00
ISBN: 9781442631045
Pub Date: September 2022
Mussolini, Architect documents the numerous ways in which Mussolini used architecture to shape Italy and its citizens.
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.
Feeding Fascism
The Politics of Women’s Food Work
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781487528188
Pub Date: February 2022
Feeding Fascism uses food as a lens to examine how women’s efforts to feed their families became politicized under the Italian dictatorship.
Modernist Idealism
Ambivalent Legacies of German Philosophy in Italian Literature
Price: $85.00
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: $34.95
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: $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
Galeazzo Ciano
The Fascist Pretender
Price: $85.00
ISBN: 9781487507985
Pub Date: May 2021
Through the prism of the rise and fall of Galeazzo Ciano (1903–1944), this biography is a comprehensive study of a leading member of the fascist regime other than Benito Mussolini.
Seeing Through Closed Eyelids
Giuseppe Penone and the Nature of Sculpture
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781487500580
Pub Date: April 2021
This book provides a material and social history of the art of Giuseppe Penone, a leading protagonist of Arte Povera, whose work explores the interconnectedness of humans and the phenomenal world.
The Ugly Woman
Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
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.
The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective
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.
Tuscan Spaces
Literary Constructions of Space
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.
Italian Neorealism
A Cultural History
Price: $89.00
ISBN: 9781487507107
Pub Date: July 2020
This book seeks to redefine, recontextualize, and reassess Italian neorealism – an artistic movement characterized by stories set among the poor and working class – through innovative close readings and comparative analysis.
Poetry on Stage
The Theatre of the Italian Neo-Avant-Garde
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.