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An uncompleted manuscript that combines lyric poetry and prose commentary, the Banquet (or Convivio) is one of Dante Alighieri’s most important and least understood philosophical texts. As Maria Lui……続きを見る

The present edited collection of essays on the Sicilian author Goliarda Sapienza includes contributions from established and emerging scholars working in the field of contemporary women’s writing. E……続きを見る

PROSPER (Gras bourgeois qui possède un vernis d’économie politique et autres sciences). ー Mais oui… mais oui… nous le savons. Il y a des gens qui souffrent la faim, des femmes qui se prostituent, d……続きを見る

Petrarch's Rerum vulgarium fragmenta, a collection of lyric poems on sacred and profane love and other subjects, has traditionally been viewed as reflecting the conflicted nature of its author. Howe……続きを見る

Narratore anticonformista, giornalista contrario alle ideologie, premio Viareggio nel 1965, premio Strega nel 1982, Goffredo Parise (1929-1986) ha raccontato in modo originale i decenni centrali del……続きを見る

Narratore, saggista, sceneggiatore, drammaturgo, scrittore di costume, collaboratore instancabile di giornali, riviste e rotocalchi tra Ventennio e Italia repubblicana, Vitaliano Brancati (1907-1954……続きを見る

Imperial Tapestries represents a transnational approach to questions of monarchical power and literary form in early modern Europe. In line with Barbara Fuchs’s recent call for considerations of cen……続きを見る

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 a……続きを見る

The essays in this volume provide a theorization of what we might call the “denatured” wild, in other words a notion of environmental “restoration” or "reinhabitation" that recognizes and reconfigur……続きを見る

Ignazio Silone, the anti-fascist, Italian author and political activist, continues to intrigue readers and stimulate their minds nearly four decades after his death. On Friendship and Freedom contai……続きを見る

Vladimir Giorgio Scerbanenco, ucraino di nascita (Kiev, 1911) ma italiano d’adozione e di formazione, è morto a Milano nel 1969 dopo essere stato uno tra i maggiori protagonisti della nascita e dell……続きを見る

Selena Daly’s work is the first comprehensive study of Futurism during the First World War period. In this book, she examines the cultural, political, and military engagement of the Futurists with t……続きを見る

In this monograph, Gregory M. Pell provides a full-length study on the poetry of Davide Rondoni, one of Italy’s most active contemporary writers and thinkers. This book includes comparative studies ……続きを見る

Considered the ‘Koran of the courtiers’, The Prince inspired Mussolini, and served Henry VIII, Thomas Cromwell and Carlos V. It is therefore a book that has impressed Monarchs, Emperors, Dictators a……続きを見る

This book joins a growing trend toward transnational literary studies and revives a venerable tradition of Anglo-Italian scholarship centering on John Milton. Correcting misperceptions that have dim……続きを見る

In 1918, a one-month stint with the American Red Cross ambulance corps at the Italian front marked the beginning of Ernest Hemingway's fascination with Italyーa place second only to Upper Michigan i……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis L'historien écrit ce qui s'est passé. Mais précisément, dans son effort d'écriture, ne se rapproche-t-il pas trop de l'écrivain ? Ne ……続きを見る

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Depuis le milieu des années 1980, la discographie et la musicologie montéverdiennes connaissent un véritable renouveau. Les mélomanes……続きを見る

Dante's Fearful Art of Justice deals primarily with the symbolic significance of 'the state of souls after death' in various episodes of the Inferno, the first canticle of Dante's Divina Commedia. T……続きを見る

In celebration of the 700th anniversary of the birth of Dante in 1265 the Dante Society of Toronto invited six internationally known scholars to address its members. Believing that the greatest trib……続きを見る

Primo Levi (1919–1987) was an Italian chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor who used a combination of testimony, essays, and creative writing to explore crucial themes related to the Shoah. His vo……続きを見る

Covering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng’s engagingly written work identifies and analyzes a Latin humanist precursor to the poetic movement known as Renai……続きを見る

Il rapporto di Elio Vittorini con il proprio romanzo Uomini e no (Bompiani, 1945) è stato senza dubbio problematico e caratterizzato da continui ripensamenti e revisioni. Questo volume spiega le rag……続きを見る

This collection draws on cutting-edge work that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries to offer new perspectives on the importance of visuality and the imagination in the work of Luigi Pirandel……続きを見る

Pubblicato nel 1940, Il deserto dei Tartari segnò la consacrazione di Dino Buzzati tra i grandi scrittori del Novecento italiano. Un libro letto e amato da generazioni di lettori, consacrato da rius……続きを見る

This book focuses on the notion of desire in late-nineteenth-century Italy, and how this notion shapes the life and works of two of Italy’s most prominent authors at that time, Giovanni Pascoli and ……続きを見る

In questa raccolta sono riportati i più importanti scritti del grande letterato futurista che all’inizio del XX secolo diedeun forte impulso al rinnovamento e al capovolgimento culturale in Italia e……続きを見る

La Storia della letteratura italiana è la principale opera di Francesco De Sanctis (1817-1883), il più eminente critico letterario e saggista italiano dell'Ottocento: essa costituisce la prima, sist……続きを見る

Preziosa testimonianza di quanto il lavoro poetico e l’impegno intellettuale di Vittorio Sereni abbiano segnato profondamente il percorso letterario del nostro Novecento, e di quanto siano tuttora c……続きを見る

Il volume che presentiamo raccoglie i lavori scritti da amici e allievi di Franco Brioschi che hanno voluto ricordarlo a dieci anni dalla sua prematura scomparsa. La ricca varietà di problemi, autor……続きを見る