148 results for '"Giovanni Boccaccio'

Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a given historical period, this new edition to...

Proclo Licio Diadoco. Vita Di Proclo / Marino Di Neapoli ; Traduzione, Prefazioni, Note E Indici Di Chiara Faraggiana Di Sarzana ; Saggio Introduttivo Di Giovanni Reale. Includes Bibliographies And...

Here, in his own translations and in original English versions of his own, Professor Praz has gathered many important essays central to his life's work, in a continuous study of the vital currents...

When the Iberian Peninsula breaks free of Europe and begins to drift across the North Atlantic, five people are drawn together on the newly formed island-first by surreal events and then by love. “A...

The development of the first universities from the 12th century onwards, growing wealth and patronage in certain cities, and above all the invention of printing and cheap paper, provided essential...

Parmenide ; Presentazione, Traduzione Con Testo Greco Dei Frammenti Del Poema A Fronte E Note Di Giovanni Reale ; Saggio Introduttivo E Commentario Filosofico Di Luigi Ruggiu. Parallel Texts In...

Franz Brentano ; Prefazione, Introduzione, Traduzione Dei Testi Greci, Progettazione E Impostazione Editoriale Di Giovanni Reale ; Traduzione Del Testo Tedesco E Indici Di Stefano Tognoli. Opere Di...

Enrico Berti ; Presentazione Di Giovanni Reale ; Indici Generali A Cura Di Giuseppe Girgenti. 1st Cedam Ed. 1962, Now Revised And With A New Introduction (pp. 9-55). Includes Bibliographical...

Giovanni Verga (1840-1922) is the most important of the Italian Realist School of novelists. This new edition of The House by the Medlar Tree (I Malavoglia) makes the complete English version of his...

Written by Gianni Rodari, the father of modern Italian children's literature, and charmingly illustrated by award-winning artist Beatrice Alemagna, this bright, sweet story reminds us what children...

An acclaimed author of novels and short stories, Tim Parks--who was described in a recent review as "one of the best living writers of English"--has delighted audiences around the world with his...

Plotino. Vita Di Plotino / Porfirio ; Traduzione Con Testo Greco A Fronte, Introduzione, Note E Bibliografia Di Giuseppe Faggin ; Presentazione E Iconografia Plotiniana Di Giovanni Reale ; Revisione...

An enchanting story that has inspired generations of writers, including Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cervantes and Keats Written towards the end of the second century AD, The Golden Ass tells the story of...

The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward GodWritten during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy describes...

This rigorously researched study sheds new light on the religious structures and rituals of the Italic tribes from 400 to 100 BC. Citing literary, epigraphic, and archaeological evidence from central...

This is the first study devoted to the story of Troilus and Cressida as it has developed through the ages and in various literatures. An international team of scholars examine the way in which the...

The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward God Written during his exile from Florence in the early 1300s, Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy describes...

A compilation of tales from Afro-American folklore by storytellers such as Zora Neale Hurston, Nikki Giovanni, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Maya Angelou.Overflowing with wisdom and humor, here is a...

- The Rawlinson collection of seal matrices in the University of Oxford is the most important early collection of European seal matrices to survive - This book contains previously unpublished data...

This beautifully designed exhibition catalogue explores the optically vibrant paintings of the late nineteenth-century Italian Divisionists, examining, for the first time, their relationship to...