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  • Leonardo Sciascia e la funzione sociale degli intellettuali

    Leonardo Sciascia e la funzione sociale degli intellettuali raccoglie traduzioni di tre scritti già apparsi su riviste scientifiche anglofone – L'onore, il qualunquismo e l'essenzialismo ne L'antimonio di Sciascia, Sciascia e La scomparsa di Majorana e De L'Affaire Moro e della (ri)scrittura della storia – oltre ad una approfondita introduzione che fornisce una visione d'insieme dei risultati ... Read more

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  • Five Comedies

    by Carlo Goldoni ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    One of the first and most important Italian playwrights to move away from the commedia dell’arte tradition of improvisation, Carlo Goldoni (1707–1793) wrote more naturalistic “comedies of character” that featured the dialect and situations of everyday life in Venice.Five Comedies collects a selection of Goldoni’s finest plays, annotated and translated into English: The New House, The Coffee House, ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • The Decameron

    In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside...Taken from the Greek, meaning 'ten-day event', Boccaccio's Decameron sees his characters amuse themselves by each telling a story a day, for the ten days of their confinement - a hundred stories of love and adventure, life and death, and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Dante in Love

    A Biography

    by A. N. Wilson ...
    For William Butler Yeats, Dante Alighieri was "the chief imagination of Christendom." For T. S. Eliot, he was of supreme importance, both as poet and philosopher. Coleridge championed his introduction to an English readership. Tennyson based his poem "Ulysses" on lines from the Inferno. Byron chastised an "Ungrateful Florence" for exiling Dante. The Divine Comedy resonates across five hundred ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Six Memos for the Next Millennium

    by Italo Calvino ...
    The celebrated author of Cosmicomics and Invisible Cities shares his “brilliant, original approach to literature” in these late-career lectures (San Francisco Chronicle).At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on his Charles Eliot Norton poetry lectures to be delivered the following year at Harvard University. The six planned lectures would define the qualities he most valued in ... Read more

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  • The Written World and the Unwritten World

    Essays

    by Italo Calvino ...
    “Wonderful… Calvino’s prose is sparkling as ever, and he approaches ideas with wit and an open mind, always ready to challenge a stale point of view. This anthology will delight Calvino fans old and new.” —Publishers WeeklyA rich collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of Calvino’s approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature.An extraordinary collection of essays, ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno

    This new translation presents the Italian text of the Inferno, and, on facing pages, Robert Durling's new prose translation, which brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dantes extraordinary vision of Hell, with all its terror, pathos, and sardonic humor, and its penetrating analyses of the psychology of sin and the ills that plague society. Readers will prize the directness and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Road to San Giovanni

    by Italo Calvino ...
    From the Italian author, personal essays featuring his relationship with his father, his love of movies, and fighting fascism during World War II.“In each other’s presence we became mute, would walk in silence side by side along the road to San Giovanni. To my father’s mind, words must serve as confirmations of things, and as signs of possession; to mine, they were foretastes of things barely ... Read more

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  • Reading Dante: From Here to Eternity

    by Prue Shaw ...
    The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time.Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem.This is far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Discourses on Livy

    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Machiavelli's commentary on Livy's history of Rome sets out his fundamental preference for a republican state. This translation is richly annotated, providing the contemporary reader with sufficient historical, linguistic, and political information to understand and interpret the revolutionary affirmations Machiavelli made, based on the historical evidence he found in Livy. - ;IDiscourses on Livy ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Secret History of Dante

    Unearthing the Real-Life Mysteries of the Inferno

    by Mark Booth ...
    Mark Booth, author of the international bestseller The Secret History of the World, uncovers the real-life stories of Dante and The Inferno.Why does Dante describe the Inferno as a real place? What secret society did Dante belong to? What was Dante’s connection with the Knights Templar? What was his secret connection to militant Islamic sects?Here you will find hidden codes, passageways under the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 2: Purgatorio

    Volume 2: Purgatorio

    The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates in the regaining of the Garden of Eden and the reunion there with the poet's long-lost love Beatrice. This new ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri : Volume 3: Paradiso

    Volume 3: Paradiso

    Robert Durling's spirited new prose translation of the Paradiso completes his masterful rendering of the Divine Comedy. Durling's earlier translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high praise, and with this superb version of the Paradiso readers can now traverse the entirety of Dante's epic poem of spiritual ascent with the guidance of one of the greatest living Italian-to-English ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • 1984 & Animal Farm

    by George Orwell ...
    "1984" and "Animal Farm" are two of George Orwell's most renowned works, each offering a profound commentary on the nature of power, control, and the perils of totalitarianism, albeit through different lenses. "1984" is set in a dystopian future where the world is divided into three superstates, with the story focusing on Airstrip One (formerly Great Britain), part of the totalitarian superstate ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Reading Dante

    Series series The Open Yale Courses Series
    A towering figure in world literature, Dante wrote his great epic poem Commedia in the early fourteenth century. The work gained universal acclaim and came to be known as La Divina Commedia, or The Divine Comedy. Giuseppe Mazzotta brings Dante and his masterpiece to life in this exploration of the man, his cultural milieu, and his endlessly fascinating works.Based on Mazzotta’s highly popular Yale ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Decadent Genealogies

    The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio

    Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic otherness. By means of an ideological and rhetorical analysis of scientific as well as literary texts, she shows how the rhetoric of sickness provided the male decadent writer with an alibi for the occupation and appropriation of the female body. ... Read more

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  • Times Alone

    Selected Poems of Antonio Machado

    Series series Wesleyan Poetry in Translation
    Antonio Machado, a school teacher and philosopher and one of Spain's foremost poets of the twentieth century, writes of the mountains, the skies, the farms and the sentiments of his homeland clearly and without narcissism: "Just as before, I'm interested/in water held in;/ but now water in the living/rock of my chest." "Machado has vowed not to soar too much; he wants to 'go down to the hells' or ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Grandi Classici di Luigi Pirandello

    Series series Grandi Classici
    In questo ebook troverete i due capolavori di Luigi Pirandello:- Uno, nessuno e centomila- Il fu Mattia Pascal ... Read more

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  • Dante's Broken Hammer

    by Graham Harman ...
    In this book the founder of object-oriented philosophy transforms one of the classic poets of the Western canon, Dante Alighieri, into an edgy stimulus for contemporary continental thought. It is well known that Dante's poetic works interpret love as the moving force of the universe: as embodied in his muse Beatrice from La Vita Nuova onward, as well as the much holier persons inhabiting Paradiso. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Stereotypes and Myths. Intertextuality in Central European Imagological Reflections

    This book combines the theory of intertextuality and intermediality with imagological reflections. These are understood as a way of intercultural, hermeneutically oriented secondary communication in which the analyses of "otherness" do not serve for the purposes of presenting one’s own self, but for understanding it. By providing tangible text examples from Central European literatures (and others ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • In Dante's Wake

    Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition

    by John Freccero ...
    Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the Divine Comedy realizes he must set his sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port. Starting on the sand of that very shore with Dante, John Freccero begins retracing the famous voyage recounted by the poet nearly 700 years ago.Freccero follows pilgrim and poet through the Comedy and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Iliade di Omero in ebook (tradotta)

    Series series Grandi Classici
    Iliade (tradotta)opera completa di Omero in versione integraletradotta in italiano da Vincenzo Montilettura agevolata in formato ebook ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Neorealismo

    In nuovo cinema del dopoguerra

    Il neorealismo attraversa la storia del cinema e della cultura italiana come una sorta di fantasma. Viene continuamente evocato sia da chi ne vuole distruggere la mitologia sia da chi cerca di recuperarlo e riattivarlo nelle dinamiche della contemporaneità. A quasi settant'anni dal suo insorgere, confrontarsi con questo sfuggente e ingombrante fenomeno significa scavare nelle pieghe più riposte ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Sottoboschi letterari. Sei case studies fra Otto e Novecento. Mara Antelling, Emma Boghen Conigliani, Evelyn, Anna Franchi, Jolanda, Flavia Steno

    Sottoboschi letterari raccoglie sei saggi su altrettante autrici attive nel periodo che va dall'ultima decade dell'Ottocento alla Grande Guerra: Mara Antelling, Emma Boghen Conigliani, Evelyn, Anna Franchi, Jolanda, Flavia Steno. Tramite la metafora del sottobosco, che richiama alcune caratteristiche del rizoma deleuziano, il volume indaga i modi in cui le autrici prescelte si sono fatte strada ... Read more

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