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  • Jacopo Caviceo's Peregrino

    Annotated English Edition and Translation

    par Sherry Roush ...
    Collections series Toronto Italian Studies
    Jacopo Caviceo’s Peregrino (1508) was a popular Renaissance prose romance in Italy, France, and Spain. Considered the first novel written for women, Peregrino relates the courtship of two young lovers from hostile households who succeed in doing what Romeo and Juliet, among others, could not: reconcile their families and marry without resorting to suicide.Peregrino features cameos of historical ... En savoir plus

    $91.99 CAD

  • Speaking Spirits

    Ventriloquizing the Dead in Renaissance Italy

    par Sherry Roush ...
    Collections series Toronto Italian Studies
    In classical and early modern rhetoric, to write or speak using the voice of a dead individual is known as eidolopoeia. Whether through ghost stories, journeys to another world, or dream visions, Renaissance writers frequently used this rhetorical device not only to co-opt the authority of their predecessors but in order to express partisan or politically dangerous arguments.In Speaking Spirits, ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

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  • Siena

    City of Secrets

    par Jane Tylus ...
    Jane Tylus's Siena is a compelling and intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Cultural history, intellectual memoir, travelogue, and guidebook, it takes the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-traveled roads and alleys of a town both medieval and modern.As Tylus leads us through the city, she shares her passion for ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Let's Explore Italy (Most Famous Attractions in Italy)

    Italy Travel Guide

    par Baby Professor ...
    Collections series Children's Explore the World Books
    Italia - the land of pizza and pasta. But do you know that there's more this delightful place than all the delicious food? This picture book features the must-see places in Italy. It defines great activities that you can do and what to expect the moment you arrive. Picture books are essential in encouraging participation, which is the foundation of active and effective learning. Grab a copy today! ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Art of Executing Well

    Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy

    Modifié par Nicholas Terpstra ...
    Collections series Early Modern Studies
    In Renaissance Italy a good execution was both public and peaceful—at least in the eyes of authorities. In a feature unique to Italy, the people who prepared a condemned man or woman spiritually and psychologically for execution were not priests or friars, but laymen. This volume includes some of the songs, stories, poems, and images that they used, together with first-person accounts and ballads ... En savoir plus

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  • The Ultimate Borgia Collection

    par Charles River Editors ...
    Includes:•Charles River Editors original biographies of Lucrezia, Cesare, and Rodrigo Borgia•Ferdinand Gregorovius biography of Lucrezia•Raphael Sabatinis The Life of Cesare Borgia•Arnold Mathews The Life and Times of Rodrigo Borgia , Pope Alexander VIAlexander never did what he said.Cesare never said what he did. Italian ProverbThe stories and legends attributed to the Borgias have made them one ... En savoir plus

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  • A Short History of the Italian Renaissance

    par Kenneth R. Bartlett ...
    Award-winning lecturer Kenneth R. Bartlett applies his decades of experience teaching the Italian Renaissance to this beautifully illustrated overview. In his introductory Note to the Reader, Bartlett first explains why he chose Jacob Burckhardt's classic narrative to guide students through the complex history of the Renaissance and then provides his own contemporary interpretation of that ... En savoir plus

    $50.99 CAD

  • The World Beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto

    par Jo Ann Cavallo ...
    This study offers a sustained examination of the presentation of eastern Asia, the Middle East, and northern Africa in two of the most important chivalric epics of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, Matteo Maria Boiardo’s Orlando Innamorato (1495) and Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso (1516). Comparing the narratological strategies used to depict non-European characters in these stories, Jo ... En savoir plus

    $86.99 CAD

  • Dante's Lyric Poetry

    Poems of Youth and of the 'Vita Nuova'

    Traduit par Richard Lansing ...
    par Andrew Frisardi ...
    Collections series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    The first comprehensive English translation and commentary on Dante’s early verse to be published in almost fifty years, Dante’s Lyric Poetry includes all the poems written by the young Dante Aligheri between c. 1283 and c. 1292. Essays by Teodolinda Barolini guide the reader through the new verse translations by Richard Lansing, illuminating Dante’s transformation from a young courtly poet into ... En savoir plus

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  • Measured Words

    Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy

    par Arielle Saiber ...
    Collections series Toronto Italian Studies
    Measured Words explores the rich commerce between computation and writing that proliferated in fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Italy. In this captivating and generously illustrated work, Arielle Saiber studies the relationship between number, shape, and the written word in the works of four exceptional thinkers of the time: Leon Battista Alberti, Luca Pacioli, Niccolò Tartaglia, and Giambattista ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • Occupying Space in Medieval and Early Modern Britain and Ireland

    Modifié par Gregory Hulsman, Caoimhe Whelan ...
    Collections Livre 4 - Court Cultures of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
    This collection offers a range of interdisciplinary viewpoints on the occupation of space and theories of place in Britain and Ireland throughout the medieval and early modern periods. It considers space in both its physical and abstract sense, exploring literature, history, art, manuscript studies, religion, geography and archaeology. The buildings and ruins still occupying our urban and rural ... En savoir plus

    $90.99 CAD

  • Merchant Writers

    Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance

    par Vittore Branca, Massimo Ciavolella/Luigi Ballerini ...
    Traduit par Murtha Baca ...
    Collections series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    The birthplace of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and the powerful Medici family, Florence was also the first great banking and commercial centre of continental Europe. The city’s middle-class merchants, though lacking the literary virtuosity of its most famous sons, were no less prolific as writers of account books, memoirs, and diaries. Written by ordinary men, these first-hand accounts of commercial ... En savoir plus

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