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  • Petrarch and Dante
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    Petrarch and Dante

    Since the beginnings of Italian vernacular literature, the nature of the relationship between Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374) and his predecessor Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) has remained an open and...
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  • Petrarch's Genius
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    Petrarch's Genius

    Marjorie Boyle is the first theologian to write about Petrarch the poet as theologian. With her extraordinarily broad and deep knowledge of the theological, historical, and literary contexts of her...
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  • Petrarch and His World
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    Petrarch and His World

    Petrarch is an ideal subject for biography, and he has found the perfect biographer in Morris Bishop, whose scholarship is both authoritative and unobtrusive, and whose urbane prose sparkles with...
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  • Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land
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    Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land

    In the early spring of 1358, Francis Petrarch was invited by his friend Giovanni Mandelli, a leading military and political figure of Visconti Milan, to go on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Pleased...
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  • Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers
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    Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers

    The first English translation of Petrarch's Psalms and Prayers provides an intimate look at the personal devotions of the "Father of Humanism." Throughout Petrarch's work, there is an undercurrent of...
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  • Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers
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    Petrarch's Penitential Psalms and Prayers

    The first English translation of Petrarch's Psalms and Prayers provides an intimate look at the personal devotions of the "Father of Humanism." Throughout Petrarch's work, there is an undercurrent...
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  • Petrarch in Romantic England Petrarch in Romantic England
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    Petrarch in Romantic England

    The Petrarchan revival in Romantic England was a unique phenomenon which involved an impressive number of scholars, translators and poets. This book analyses the way Petrarch was read and re-written...
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  • Petrarch and Other Essays Petrarch and Other Essays
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    Petrarch and Other Essays

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and...
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  • The Wisdom of the Renaissance
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    The Wisdom of the Renaissance

    This engaging survey of important works spanning the lives of Petrarch (1304-1374) to Shakespeare (1564-1616) reveals the depth of thought and the diversity of expression that characterized the...
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  • Defining the Humanities
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    Defining the Humanities

    "Think of this as 'The Thinking Man's Bloom' or 'The Thinking Woman's Closing of the American Mind.' It takes up debates about education and reasons about them, where Bloom often only blasted away. ...
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  • Boccaccio's Corpus
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    Boccaccio's Corpus

    In Boccaccio's Corpus, James C. Kriesel explores how medieval ideas about the body and gender inspired Boccaccio's vernacular and Latin writings. Scholars have observed that Boccaccio distinguished...
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  • Flowers of Evil
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    Flowers of Evil

    Judicially condemned in 1857 as offensive to public morality, The Flowers of Evil is now regarded as the most influential volume of poetry published in the nineteenth century. Torn between intense...
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  • Desire and Gender in the Sonnet Tradition Desire and Gender in the Sonnet Tradition
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    Desire and Gender in the Sonnet Tradition

    This new study explores the poetic tradition of the love sonnet sequence in English as written by women. Natasha Distiller offers a unique contribution to the debate about gender and subjectivity by...
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  • Florence After the Medici Florence After the Medici
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    Florence After the Medici

    Although there is a rich historiography on Enlightenment Tuscany in Italian as well as French and German, the principle Anglophone works are Eric Cochrane's Tradition and Enlightenment in the Tuscan...
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  • Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World
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    Tracing the Trails in the Medieval World

    Every human being knows that we are walking through life following trails, whether we are aware of them or not. Medieval poets, from the anonymous composer of Beowulf to Marie de France, Hartmann von...
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  • Mental Libraries
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    Mental Libraries

    Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture explores the enduring legacy of mnemonic systems across literature, visual arts, pedagogy, and cultural production...
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  • Florence After the Medici Florence After the Medici
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    Florence After the Medici

    Although there is a rich historiography on Enlightenment Tuscany in Italian as well as French and German, the principle Anglophone works are Eric Cochrane's Tradition and Enlightenment in the Tuscan...
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  • Mental Libraries
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    Mental Libraries

    Mental Libraries: The Reception of the Arts of Memory in Literature and Culture explores the enduring legacy of mnemonic systems across literature, visual arts, pedagogy, and cultural production...
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  • Italian Influence in English Poetry
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    Italian Influence in English Poetry

    If poetry was the fashionable mode of expression in Tudor England, ‘Great Italy’, as Shakespeare called her, was the land of predilection for Englishmen. They looked to Italy for lessons in...
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  • Reading Franz Liszt
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    Reading Franz Liszt

    A look beyond the virtuosity of Romanticism's piano superstar. Pianist Paul Roberts recasts Franz Liszt as a composer of poetic feeling rather than just a purveyor of technical brilliance. Reading...
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  • The Study
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    The Study

    With the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe’s cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics. Andrew Hui tells the remarkable story of the...
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  • The Renaissance in Italy
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    The Renaissance in Italy

    Kenneth Bartlett delves into the lives and works of the artists, patrons, and intellectuals - the privileged, educated, influential elites - who created a rarefied world of power, money, and...
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  • A Boccaccian Renaissance A Boccaccian Renaissance
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    A Boccaccian Renaissance

    A Boccaccian Renaissance brings together essays written by internationally recognized scholars in diverse national traditions to respond to the largely unaddressed question of Boccaccio's impact on...
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  • Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin
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    Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin

    From the dawn of the early modern period around 1400 until the eighteenth century, Latin was still the European language and its influence extended as far as Asia and the Americas. At the same time,...
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  • The Defeat of a Renaissance Intellectual
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    The Defeat of a Renaissance Intellectual

    A papal advisor and sixteenth-century power broker, Francesco Guicciardini wrote voluminously throughout his time in service to the Medici. The texts in this volume chart his career chronologically,...
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  • Early Modern English Poetry
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    Early Modern English Poetry

    Early Modern English Poetry: A Critical Companion presents twenty-eight original essays on the major poems of the English Renaissance. Each essay is written by a leading scholar and examines a poem...
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  • Tudor Translation in Theory and Practice Tudor Translation in Theory and Practice
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    Tudor Translation in Theory and Practice

    Filling a gap in the study of early modern literature, Massimiliano Morini here exhaustively examines the aims, strategies, practice and theoretical ideas of the sixteenth-century translator. Morini...
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  • Knights at Court Knights at Court
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    Knights at Court

    Knights at Court is a grand tour and survey of manners, manhood, and court life in the Middle Ages, like no other in print. Composed on an epic canvas, this authoritative work traces the development...
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  • Reading Shakespeare's Poetry
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    Reading Shakespeare's Poetry

    Reading Shakespeare?s Poetry A lively exploration of Shakespeare?s poems and how they speak to readers Reading Shakespeare?s Poetry presents a fresh interpretation of Shakespeare?s non-dramatic...
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  • "The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances"
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    "The Soul Exceeds Its Circumstances"

    The Soul Exceeds its Circumstances brings together sixteen of the most prominent scholars who have written on Seamus Heaney to examine the Nobel Prize winner's later poetry from a variety of critical...
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  • Apocalypse in Rome
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    Apocalypse in Rome

    On May 20, 1347, Cola di Rienzo overthrew without violence the turbulent rule of Rome's barons and the absentee popes. A young visionary and the best political speaker of his time, Cola promised Rome...
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  • Cicero in Letters
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    Cicero in Letters

    Cicero in Letters is a guide to the first extensive correspondence that survives from the Greco-Roman world. The more than eight hundred letters of Cicero that are its core provided literary models...
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  • Desiring Bodies
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    Desiring Bodies

    Gregory Heyworth’s Desiring Bodies considers the physical body and its relationship to poetic and corporate bodies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Beginning in the odd contest between body and...
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