Covering a period from the late-fourteenth to mid-sixteenth century, Aileen A. Feng’s engagingly written work identifies and analyzes a Latin humanist precursor to the poetic movement known as Renaiss
Comprised of three books - Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso - Dante's Divine Comedy follows Dante Alighieri's epic poems follows Dante through the different sections of the afterlife; hell, purgatory, an
Domingo Notaro’s poems struggle to fix an innocent gaze on a contemporary world that appears more and more fraught with inhumanity and cruelty. They explore themes of exile, fertility, the human body’
Poetry. Translated from the Italian by Adria Bernardi. Bilingual edition. Verse by a nuclear scientist, novelist and poet that challenge the reader with new ways of seeing space, time and transience.
Just as Dante is hailed as the best of Italy's poets, The Divine Comedy is considered the greatest work of Italian literature.Inferno, the three-part epic's first and most popular section, chronicles
First published in Italian in 1968, The World Saved by Kids was written in the aftermath of deep personal change and in the context of what Elsa Morante called the “great youth movement exploding agai
Dante's Commedia compels readers to confront the mystery of their existence, to seek understanding of their relationship to the living conscious reality from which all possible experience arises. By p
On a cold November morning, Joseph Luzzi found himself racing to the hospital. His wife, Katherine, eight-and-a-half months pregnant, had been in a horrible car accident—in one terrible instant, Luzzi
Marco Santagata’s Dante: The Story of His Life illuminates one of the world’s supreme poets from many angles—writer, philosopher, father, courtier, political partisan. Santagata brings together a vast
An uncompleted manuscript that combines lyric poetry and prose commentary, theBanquet (or Convivio) is one of Dante Alighieri’s most important and least understood philosophical texts. As Maria
Dante and the Dynamics of Textual Exchange is the first book-length study to explore the question of poetry and genre in the earliest author's book in Italian by investigating, through an analysis of
Last Words is a collection of found poems. Its conceptual basis is dramatic: to recover the lyricism of the final moments.Gabriele Tinti has with this aim composed the last words of ordinary people wh
In the past seven centuries Dante has become world renowned, with his works translated into multiple languages and read by people of all ages and cultural backgrounds. This volume brings together interdisciplinary essays by leading, international scholars to provide a comprehensive account of the historical, cultural and intellectual context in which Dante lived and worked: from the economic, social and political scene to the feel of daily life; from education and religion to the administration of justice; from medicine to philosophy and science; from classical antiquity to popular culture; and from the dramatic transformation of urban spaces to the explosion of visual arts and music. This book, while locating Dante in relation to each of these topics, offers readers a clear and reliable idea of what life was like for Dante as an outstanding poet and intellectual in the Italy of the late Middle Ages.
Most people outside Italy know Pier Paolo Pasolini for his films, many of which began as literary worksArabian Nights,The Gospel According to Matthew, The Decameron, and The Canterbury Tales among the
Originating from Helm’s doctoral thesis at the University of Gottingen, this book aims to draw attention to and elucidate potential links between poetry and censorship. The Catholic Church sought to s
Sensual and glimmering, Lorenzo Chiera’s elliptical fragments evoke nights of bawdy excess in Trastevere (“City made of Roman ruins . . . / what a whorehouse!”), translated here by one of the most ren
Poetry. Women's Studies. Translated from the Italian by Joan E. Borrelli. Bilingual Edition. Feminist, courtesan, playwright and a renowned virtuosa (soloist vocal performer) called to sing before Rom
