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The Divine Comedy, 1: Inferno
Oxford University Press, USA 1961; US$ 19.99An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair translation, arranged on facing pages, and commentaries, appearing after each canto, which... more...
Dante Alighieris Gerechtigkeitssinn
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 56.00Dante's Divine Comedy is one of the most important works in the history of world literature. Although the theme of justice is of central importance in this work, studies of its content from a philosophy of law perspective have been thus far primarily conducted by researchers of Romance languages and literature rather than by legal experts. This is... more...
Nineteenth-Century French Poetry
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 34.00Present a fresh approach to studying nineteenth-century French poetry through the method of close reading. more...
Il frammento inedito »Resplendiente stella de albur« di Giacomino Pugliese e la poesia italiana delle origini
De Gruyter 2000; US$ 126.00The study has its origins in the discovery the fragment of a poem from the 'school' of Friedrich II of Hohenstaufen. It is the oldest extant written example of Sicilian lyric poetry. The volume is divided into three interconnected parts: the first presents and interprets the sources; the second is devoted to methodology, editions and commentaries;... more...
Canzoniere
Carcanet Press Ltd. 2006; US$ 20.99Among Europe's most famous and influential books of lyrics, this large collection focuses on Petrarch's lifelong love for the mysterious Laura, but the themes he treats are many. Showing why Petrarch is often regarded as the first modern man to emerge from a medieval world, this book reveals the man in all of his perplexities, uncertainties, and hesitancies.... more...
A Short Survey of Surrealism
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 175.00Gascoyne's membership of the Surrealist movement and his association with its leading members - among them Andre Breton, Paul Eluard, Max Ernst and Salvador Dali - placed him in an ideal position to witness and record the development and significance of its foremost artists and writers. "A Short Survey of Surrealism" is not merely a history of the... more...
Dante and the Sense of Transgression
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 110.00In Dante and the Sense of Transgression , William Franke combines literary-critical analysis with philosophical and theological reflection to cast new light on Dante's poetic vision. Conversely, Dante's medieval masterpiece becomes our guide to rethinking some of the most pressing issues of contemporary theory. Beyond suggestive archetypes... more...
Dante's Divine Comedy
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1964; US$ 4.95This classic poem of 14th-century Italy is an allegory of a journey through the various levels of heaven and hell. In between, Dante describes Purgatory (Purgatorio). It is the first great poetic work written in Italian. more...
Dante in Love
Simon & Schuster 2005; US$ 13.00Dante in Love is the story of the most famous journey in literature. Dante Alighieri, exiled from his home in Florence, a fugitive from justice, followed a road in 1302 that took him first to the labyrinths of hell then up the healing mountain of purgatory, and finally to paradise. He found a vision and a language that made him immortal. Author... more...
Dante and the Romantics
Palgrave Macmillan 2004; US$ 111.00The British Romantic poets were among the first to realise the centrality of the Divine Comedy for the evolution of the European epic. This study explores the significance of Dante for Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats and William Blake. What was their idea of Dante? Why did they feel the need to approach his Christian epic on the afterlife? This... more...









