The Boccaccian Novella

Corradina Caporello-Szkyman

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 2
• Through a close scrutiny of Boccaccio's Decameron and the works of his epigones, this book presents a synthesis of the medieval and Renaissance novell... Lees meer

Antonfrancesco Grazzini (Il Lasca), Two Plays

Marino D'Orazio

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 23
• Antonfrancesco Grazzini, known as Il Lasca (The Roach), was born and lived in Florence at the height of the Renaissance. He wrote prolifically in most... Lees meer

Italy's Ultramodern, Experimental Lyrics

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 7
• This anthology of Corpo 10 poets includes some of the «brightest lights» on today's Italian cultural scene. These new voices resonate with linguistic ... Lees meer

The Veteran «(Parlamento de Ruzante)» and Weasel «(Bilora)»

Ronnie Ferguson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 17
• This is the first scholarly translation-study in English of the Parlamento de Ruzante ('The Veteran') and Bilora ('Weasel'). These two one-act renaiss... Lees meer

The Mobile Spectacle

Clareece Godt

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 12
• The Mobile Spectacle treats Manzoni's use of variable perspective in I Promessi Sposi , the relationship between his technique and that of other Europ... Lees meer

Lorenzo De' Medici- New Perspectives

• Hardcover | Engels, Italiaans | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 13
• On the occasion of the quincentenary of the death of Lorenzo de' Medici, an interdisciplinary, international conference was held at Brooklyn College a... Lees meer

Goldoni as Librettist

Ted Emery

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 3
• Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793) is widely recognized as one of Italy's finest playwrights, but his production for the operatic theatre is much less well kno... Lees meer

Dante's Burning Sands

Francesca D'Antoni

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 4
• This study illuminates some dark passages at the center of the Commedia's three canticles, revealing the poem's artistic integrity in ways hitherto un... Lees meer

Giovanni Boccaccio: The Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta Sent by Her to Women in Love

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 9
• The Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta is narrated by a woman who recounts her love affair with a young man she calls Panfilo and his betrayal of her. Medieva... Lees meer

The Dialect Poetry of Nino Martoglio

Antonio Scuderi

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 6
• The Sicilian dialect poet, Nino Martoglio (1870-1921), was also a playwright-director who is best known for his instrumental role in Luigi Pirandello'... Lees meer

Self and Self-Compromise in the Narratives of Pirandello and Moravia

M John Stella

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 27
• This study presents a distinctly new interpretation of key works by Luigi Pirandello and Alberto Moravia that dramatizes the identity crisis of the in... Lees meer

Glad to Go for a Feast

A M Cinquemani

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 22
• Glad To Go For a Feast focuses upon Milton's intellectual contacts in Florence during his sojourn from 1638 to 1639, especially those accademici surro... Lees meer

The Economy of Human Relations

Joseph D Falvo

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 5
• This book offers a modern critical approach to the study of Baldesar Castiglione's Libro del Cortegiano (1528), a monumental work which reflects, par ... Lees meer

The Image of the Baroque

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 16
• In the ongoing attempt to offer new interpretations of cultural phenomena, the Baroque is not one of the most frequently discussed periods, but we can... Lees meer

Fenoglio's Binoculars, Johnny's Eyes

Philip Cooke

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 30
• Beppe Fenoglio (1922-1963) is one of Italy's major postwar writers. His contemporary Italo Calvino described one of his novels, Una questione privata ... Lees meer

Revisionary Identities

Mary Ann Vigilante Mannino

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 29
• Italian Americans, the fifth-largest ethnic group in the United States, make up a large segment of the population. It is only recently that the daught... Lees meer

The Image of Antiquity in Boccaccio's «Filocolo, Filostrato» and «Teseida»

James H McGregor

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 1
• This book argues that in three of his early vernacular romances, Boccaccio, working with descriptive language, not with sketches or plastic imitations... Lees meer

Topographies of Desire

Susanna F Ferlito

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 28
• Drawing upon a wide range of current disciplinary debates in the fields of comparative politics, anthropology, cultural studies, and comparative liter... Lees meer

Nationalism and Culture

Jared Becker

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 11
• This study offers a new perspective on Italian nationalist culture before Fascism. Focusing especially on the extraordinary literary-political career ... Lees meer

Magic in Boiardo and Ariosto

Julia M Kisacky

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Italian Culture | nr. 25
• The topos of magic has fascinated people from antiquity to the present day. This study uses a thematic and structural approach to examine the various ... Lees meer