On Crimes and Punishments and Other Writings

Cesare Beccaria

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• Published in 1764, On Crimes and Punishments by Cesare Beccaria (1738-1794) courted both success and controversy in Europe and North America. Enlighte... Lees meer

The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast

Giordano Bruno

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• Published in London in 1584, The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast is Giordano Bruno's first work of moral philosophy. It is dedicated with a long Exp... Lees meer

The Ash Wednesday Supper

Giordano Bruno, Massimo Ciavolella/Luigi Ballerini

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• Giordano Bruno's The Ash Wednesday Supper presents a revolutionary cosmology founded on the new Copernican astronomy that Bruno extends to infinite di... Lees meer

The Pleasant Nights - Volume 1

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• Renowned today for his contribution to the rise of the modern European fairy tale, Giovan Francesco Straparola (c. 1480-c. 1557) is particularly known... Lees meer

Selected Poems and Prose

Guittone D'Arezzo

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• Guittone d'Arezzo (ca. 1230-1294) was the most important, prolific, and influential poet and prose writer of the thirteenth century. Unfortunately, hi... Lees meer

The Complete Poems of Michelangelo

Michelangelo Buonarroti

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• Though known primarily as a sculptor and painter, Michelangelo was also a poet. In his lifetime, Michelangelo wrote over 300 poems, many of which were... Lees meer

The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society

Scipio Sighele

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• The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society is the first collection in English of writings by Italian jurist, sociologist, and cultural and ... Lees meer

The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570)

Terence Scully

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• Bartolomeo Scappi (c. 1500-1577) was arguably the most famous chef of the Italian Renaissance. He oversaw the preparation of meals for several Cardina... Lees meer

The Pleasant Nights, Volume 2

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• Renowned today for his contribution to the rise of the modern European fairy tale, Giovan Francesco Straparola (c. 1480-c. 1557) is particularly known... Lees meer

The Republic of Venice

Gasparo Contarini

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• This book provides an alternative understanding to Machiavelli’s Renaissance Italy. Lees meer

The Complete Poems of Michelangelo

Michelangelo Buonarroti

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• Though known primarily as a sculptor and painter, Michelangelo was also a poet. In his lifetime, Michelangelo wrote over 300 poems, many of which were... Lees meer

On the Heroic Frenzies

Giordano Bruno

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• Italian astronomer and Dominican friar Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), found guilty of heresy by the Roman Inquisition and burned at the stake, has long b... Lees meer

On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities, 1588

Geoffrey Symcox

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• The first treatise ever written on the sociology of cities, On the Causes of the Greatness and Magnificence of Cities (1588) marked a radical departur... Lees meer

The Republic of Venice

Gasparo Contarini

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• At a time when social scientists are increasingly focusing on the reasons why nations fail and democracies die, Filippo Sabetti turns to the opposite ... Lees meer

Merchant Writers

Vittore Branca, Massimo Ciavolella/Luigi Ballerini

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• The birthplace of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and the powerful Medici family, Florence was also the first great banking and commercial centre of continent... Lees meer

Writings on the Sober Life

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• Alvise Cornaro (c.1484-1566) was the son of a Paduan innkeeper with presumed ties to the patrician Cornaro family of Venice. Highly ambitious, he acqu... Lees meer

Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo

Raffaello Borghini

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• Raffaello Borghini's Il Riposo (1584) is the most widely known Florentine document on the subject of the Counter-Reformation content of religious pain... Lees meer

Dialogues of Love

Leone Ebreo

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• First published in Rome in 1535, Leone Ebreo's Dialogues of Love is one of the most important texts of the European Renaissance. Well known in the Ita... Lees meer

Geometry of the Passions

Remo Bodei

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• The passions have long been condemned as a creator of disturbance and purveyor of the temporary loss of reason, but as Remo Bodei argues in Geometry o... Lees meer

Five Comedies

Carlo Goldoni

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• One of the first and most important Italian playwrights to move away from the commedia dell'arte tradition of improvisation, Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793)... Lees meer

The Queen of Scots

Federico Della Valle

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• From the moment of her spectacular death on the scaffold, the story of Mary Queen of Scots became nothing short of a sensation across Europe. She was ... Lees meer

Aretino's Dialogues

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• Dialogues the first erotic book in the Christian world to be written in the common vernacular, it was but one of the few to describe the obscenity of ... Lees meer

The Ash Wednesday Supper

Giordano Bruno

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• Giordano Bruno's The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in London between 1584 an... Lees meer

Historical Essay on the Neapolitan Revolution of 1799

Vincenzo Cuoco

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• Deeply influenced by Enlightenment writers from Naples and France, Vincenzo Cuoco (1770-1823) was forced into exile for his involvement in the failed ... Lees meer