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The epic saga behind the Disney-produced Hulu series The Lions of Sicily The magnificent third installment of the Florio story-a sweeping, decadent, and romantic finale that tells the story of...

'A subtle and beautiful meditation' Sunday Times 'A subtle and beautiful meditation' Sunday Times In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese...

First time in Penguin Modern Classics In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and...

The first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century Italo Calvino, Italy's most important postwar novelist, was also an influential...

'Brilliant-a feast' Guardian 'This brilliant collection of essays should be a feast for his admirers, as well as for those who approach his dazzling oeuvre for the first time-Calvino is...

A new translation of Calvino's influential last work Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard in 1985-86, but they were left unfinished at his...

The final book from one of Europe's cultural giants- an entertaining collection of essays about the modern world - from unbridled individualism to mobile phones Umberto Eco was an international...

Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation This hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories...

A triptych of allegorical fables told in Calvino's ingenious genre-defying style. Viscount Medardo is bisected by a Turkish cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, at the age of...

A collection of the beautiful, surprising poems of Catullus. One of the most versatile of Roman poets, Catullus wrote verse of an almost unparalleled diversity and stylistic agility, from the...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA landmark work of political autobiography and moral reflection, Emergency Exit chronicles Ignazio Silone's profound intellectual and spiritual...

Condition remarks:Book: Good , ex-libraryJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Ex-library with usual markingsCondition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve. A landmark of twentieth-century Italian literature, Bread and...

New to Penguin Modern Classics Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning...

A marvel of psychological insight from one of the most important Italian literary figures of the twentieth century This enormously engaging, strange novel is both an engrossing saga of a...

The brilliant writings of a highly influential Greek philosopher, with a foreword by Daniel Klein, author of Travels with Epicurus The teachings of Epicurus-about life and death, religion and science,...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the lyric intensity of Dante and Petrarch to the searing social realism of the twentieth century, Italian literature stands as one of the...

Author: Lionello PuppiBinding: HardbackPublished: Rizzoli New York, 1990Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsPalladio Drawings presents a comprehensive collection of the master architect Andrea Palladio's influential sketches and designs....

Calvino's fascinating and cerebral collection of essays celebrating all aspects of the visual, translated for the first time and new to Penguin Modern Classics Italo Calvino claimed that 'the brain...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. In the sun-scorched hills of postwar Sicily,...

The book titled Album by the author Italo Calvino. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

HarperCollins is proud to present our range of timeless literary classics. 'There is no greater sorrow then to recall our times of joy in wretchedness.' Considered one of the greatest...

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Marsilio Ficino (1433-99) directed the Platonic Academy in Florence, and it was the work of this Academy that gave the Renaissance in the 15th century its impulse and direction. During...

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This Norton Critical Edition of Dante's masterpiece is based on Michael Palma's verse translation, which is acclaimed for its elegant rendering of Dante's triple-rhyme scheme into contemporary English. Richard Wilbur...

The Giulio Romano exhibition in Mantua in 1989 was the occasion for the publication, for the first time, of a full and thorough account of Giulio's art. This hugely successful...

Condition remarks: Condition: Very Good. Jacket: Very good, minimal wear with slight fading to edges. Page Condition: Good. Markings: Remainder mark. Binding: Tight and secure. A landmark work of literary...

In Althusser, The Infinite Farewell-originally published in Spanish and appearing here in English for the first time-Emilio de Ipola contends that Althusser's oeuvre is divided between two fundamentally different and...