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Author: Christopher S. Celenza Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 224 Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of the modern Italian...

Author: PetrarchBinding: HardbackPublished: The Heritage Press, 1966Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis edition of The Sonnets of Petrarch features the renowned poetry of Petrarch, edited by Thomas...

Since the beginnings of Italian vernacular literature, the nature of the relationship between Francesco Petrarch and his predecessor Dante Alighieri has remained an open and endlessly fascinating question of both...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA landmark work of medieval political literature, The Revolution of Cola di Rienzo chronicles...

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...

An exploration of the influence of Italy and Italians on Chaucer's life and writing. Geoffrey Chaucer might be considered the quintessential English writer, but he drew much of his inspiration...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good , price clippedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Previous owner stamp and name (white out) on FEP - otherwise pages are clean and bright....

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFew figures in Western literature cast as long a shadow as Giovanni Boccaccio, the fourteenth-century Florentine master whose wit, sensuality, and storytelling genius forever...

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Author: Martin S. SmithBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1975Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book presents 'Cena Trimalchionis', a significant portion of Petronius's Satyricon. The...

Condition remarks:Book: PoorJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: fep and title pages missing. A masterclass in strategic genius awaits within the pages of Petrosian's Best Games...

The way in which a society expresses grief can reveal how it views both intense emotions and public order. In thirteenth-century Italian communes, a conscious effort to change appropriate public...

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Author: J.P. SullivanBinding: HardbackPublished: Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1968Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThe book offers a scholarly examination of Petronius's ancient Roman novel, 'Satyricon'. This...

The Milan-based interior design and architectural firm Studio Peregalli presents for the first time their breathtaking environments that capture the classic elegance of the past. Studio Peregalli is the master...

Author: Roger PeyrefitteBinding: HardbackPublisher: Secker & Warburg, 1957Edition: 1st eng ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsRoger Peyrefitte's The Keys...