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The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction
An ingenious exploration of the meaning of literature, from one of Italy's most beloved writers 'If the world is increasingly senseless, all we can do is try to give it...
The Civil Wars
John Carter's modern translation conveys the compelling style of the original. His extensive introduction provides an in-depth assessment of Appian as historian and places the work in context Taken from...
What is Art?
Tolstoy's controversial treatise on the purpose of Art During his decades of world fame as a novelist, Tolstoy also wrote prolifically in a series of essays and polemics on issues...
The Development of Latin Post-Tonic /Cr/ Clusters in Select Northern
The Development of Latin Post-Tonic /Cr/ Clusters in Select Northern Italian Dialects offers an explanation of the disparate outcomes of similar consonant clusters within several related Northern Italian dialects through...
A Local Habitation and a Name: Imagining Histories in the Italian
Focusing on major authors and problems from the Italian fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, from Petrarch and Boccaccio to Machiavelli, Ariosto and Tasso, A Local Habitation and a Name examines the...