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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...
The Films of Roberto Rossellini
Cambridge University Press 1993; US$ 35.00The Films of Roberto Rossellini traces the career of one of the most influential Italian filmmakers through close analysis of the seven films that mark important turning points in his evolution. more...
Umberto Eco and the Open Text
Cambridge University Press 1997; US$ 36.00The first comprehensive study in English of Umberto Eco's theories and fictions. more...
The Lives of the Artists
Oxford University Press, UK 1991; US$ 8.99Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Renaissance art.Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto, who represent the infancy of art, Vasari considers the period of youthful vigour, shaped by Donatello,... more...
Discourses on Livy
Oxford University Press, UK 1997; US$ 8.99Machiavelli'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... more...
The Films of Federico Fellini
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 28.00Examines the career of one of Italy's most renowned filmmakers through analysis of five masterpieces that span his career: La Strada, La Dolce Vita, 8 1/2, Amarcord and Interview. Bondanella traces the development of Fellini's cinematic vision as it transcends Italian neorealism to emphasize fantasy, the irrational and individualism. more...
The Cambridge Companion to the Italian Novel
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 27.00This volume provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the Italian novel from its early modern origin to the contemporary era. Novelists examined include some of the most influential of the twentieth century inside and outside Italy: Primo Levi, Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino. more...
The Portable Machiavelli
Penguin Group US 1979; US$ 20.00In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli?s death, no single and unanimously accepted interpretation of his ideas has succeeded in imposing itself upon the lively debate over the meaning of his works. Yet there has never been any doubt about the fundamental importance of Machiavelli?s contribution to Western political theory. The Portable... more...
The Prince
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 5.99Based upon Machiavelli's first-hand experience as an emissary of the Florentine Republic to the courts of Europe, The Prince analyses the usually violent means by which men seize, retain, and lose political power. This fluent new translation is accompanied by comprehensive notes and an introduction that dispels some of the myths associated with... more...
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