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Buch 13-24
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 307.00In 1350, the Italian humanist and poet Francesco Petrarca decided to form a collection of all his correspondence. The letters deal with multifarious topics, switch between narration and instruction, the personal and the general, and are addressed to various of his learned friends and contemporaries. Theyconstitute a treasure trove for the history of... more...
Italian-English Visual Bilingual Dictionary
Dorling Kindersley Ltd 2005; Not AvailableLook and learn - the quick and intuitive way to learn and recall everyday vocabulary in Italian. Whether for business or leisure, this introduction to key vocabulary covers a range of subjects from food and drink to sports and leisure. With scenes and items from everyday life clearly labelled, it's easy to find the words you want in this dictionary... more...
Eating out in Five Languages
A&C Black 2004; US$ 10.40This volume will help you decipher menus whether they are in English, French, German, Italian or Spanish. It has over 10,000 food and drink terms translated to and from English, covering dishes, ingredients, methods of cooking and useful phrases for ordering and asking for service. more...
Dante and the Making of a Modern Author
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 27.00The first comprehensive study of Dante's evolving, transformative relationship to medieval ideas of authorship and authority. more...
Perfect Phrases in Italian for Confident Travel
McGraw-Hill Education 2009; US$ 9.95More than your average phrasebook, this portable title shows you how to be a well-mannered visitor and speak the local language in the correct context Any phrasebook can give you a line listing of essential phrases. But if you use a phrase or term without knowing the correct way to use it, you can find yourself in an embarrassing situation. ... more...
British Romanticism and Italian Literature
Editions Rodopi 2005; US$ 84.00Drawing on a long-standing tradition of fictional images, British writers of the Romantic period defined and constructed Italy as a land that naturally invites inscription and description. In their works, Italy is a cultural geography so heavily overwritten with discourse that it becomes the natural recipient of further fictional transformations. If... more...
Macchine matematiche
Springer 2006; US$ 31.99Che cosa sono le macchine matematiche? Una macchina matematica (in un contesto geometrico) uno strumento che ha uno scopo fondamentale (indipendentemente dalluso che poi se ne far): obbligare un punto, o un segmento, o una figura qualsiasi (sostenuti da un opportuno supporto materiale che li renda visibili) a muoversi nello spazio o a subire trasformazioni... more...
Urania
University of Chicago Press 2007; US$ 25.00Presented for the first time in a critical English edition, Urania: A Romance provides modern readers with a rare glimpse into the novel and novella forms at a time when narrative genres were not only being invented but, in the hands of women like Giulia Bigolina (1518?-1569?), used as vehicles for literary experimentation. The first known prose... more...
New Essays on Umberto Eco
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 86.00An introduction to Eco's contributions to a wide range of academic disciplines, as well as to his literary works. more...
Nomi e volti della paura nelle valli dell'Adda e della Mera
De Gruyter 2009; US$ 168.00This study is a vast review in time and space of the transitory trace of onomasiologic fragmentation of linguistic interdiction, of all those reality and sensations which come under the prohibition of being pronounced with their true name, because they are not to be called into question, and consequently, they are rendered present. Taking the clue... more...









