On Crimes and Punishments and Other Writings

Cesare Beccaria

• Paperback | Engels | Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
• 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

Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies

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• Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies is an anthology of poems and essays that aims to provide an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry aft... 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 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

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 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

A Tournament of Misfits

Aldo Palazzeschi

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• Aldo Palazzeschi (1885-1974) is arguably the major twentieth-century Italian writer who has been most neglected by the English-speaking world. Born in... 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

Breviary of Aesthetics

Benedetto Croce

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• Benedetto Croce (1866-1952) was among the most important of those philosophers of the twentieth century who grappled with issues of pure aesthetics. T... Lees meer

The Complete Poems of Michelangelo

Michelangelo Buonarroti

• Paperback | Engels | Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
• 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

Renaissance Comedy

Don Beecher, The Da Ponte Library

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• A rich and multi-faceted aspect of the Italian Renaissance, the comedy has been largely overlooked as a cultural force during the period. In Renaissan... Lees meer

A Tournament of Misfits

Aldo Palazzeschi

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• Aldo Palazzeschi (1885-1974) is arguably the major twentieth-century Italian writer who has been most neglected by the English-speaking world. Born in... Lees meer

John Florio

Hermann W Haller

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• A Worlde of Wordes , the first-ever comprehensive Italian-English dictionary, was published in 1598 by John Florio. One of the most prominent linguist... 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

The Complete Poetry of Giacomo Da Lentini

Giacomo Da Lentini

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• This volume presents the first translation in English of the complete poetry of Giacomo da Lentini, the first major lyric poet of the Italian vernacul... 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

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

My Muse Will Have a Story to Paint

Massimo Ciavolella, Dennis Looney

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• Ludovico Ariosto, best known for his 1516 epic poem Orlando furioso , was one of the great writers of the Italian Renaissance. In this collection, Den... 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

From Kant to Croce

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• From around 1800, shortly before Pasquale Galluppi's first book, until 1950, just before Benedetto Croce died, the most formative influences on Italia... Lees meer