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Product Description: “All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics.” —from Why Read the Classics? Classics, according to Italo Calvino, are not only works of enduring cultural value, but also something much more personal: talismans, touchstones, books through which we understand our world and ourselves...read more
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9780544146372 | Mariner Books, December 16, 2014, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: “All that can be done is for each one of us to invent our own ideal library of our classics.
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9780544146693 | Italian edition edition (Mariner Books, November 18, 2014), cover price $13.95
Product Description: This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy's most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler...read more
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9780691139456 | Princeton Univ Pr, June 17, 2013, cover price $39.50
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9780691162430 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, May 4, 2014), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century.
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9780544146464 | Mariner Books, September 16, 2014, cover price $13.95
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9780544146389 | Mariner Books, September 16, 2014, cover price $13.95
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9781907975752 | Legenda, October 21, 2015, cover price $120.00
Product Description: This book is a collection of the Paget Toynbee's lectures, given by internationally renowned scholars such as Zygmunt Baranski, John Barnes, and Jonathan Usher. It includes key questions such as Dante, Ovid and the poetry of exile, and ground-breaking work on obscenity in the Divine Comedy...read more
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9781900755993 | Legenda, March 4, 2011, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This book is a collection of the Paget Toynbee's lectures, given by internationally renowned scholars such as Zygmunt Baranski, John Barnes, and Jonathan Usher.
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9781848220751 | Lund Humphries Pub Ltd, October 15, 2010, cover price $90.00
Product Description: Italy has made innumerable contributions to world history and culture, but few rank higher than the âTre Corone,â or Three Crowns: Dante, Petrarch, and Bocaccio. Italy's Three Crowns offers a groundbreaking examination that investigates the massive impact of these three artists and the evolution of their legacy over the centuries...read more
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9781851243013 | Bodleian Library, November 30, 2008, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Italy has made innumerable contributions to world history and culture, but few rank higher than the âTre Corone,â or Three Crowns: Dante, Petrarch, and Bocaccio.
Product Description: This book presents the proceedings of the fifth meeting of the International Dante Seminar. As with previous volumes, the proceedings also include a carefully edited account of the extensive discussions which followed the presentations...read more
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9781906540043 | Legenda, August 1, 2010, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This book presents the proceedings of the fifth meeting of the International Dante Seminar.
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9781905981076 | Legenda, July 30, 2007, cover price $120.00
Product Description: Few recent writers have been as interested in the cross-over between texts and visual art as Italo Calvino (1923-85). Involved for most of his life in the publishing industry, he took as much interest in the visual as in the textual aspects of his own and other writers' books...read more
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9781904350590 | Legenda, April 30, 2007, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Few recent writers have been as interested in the cross-over between texts and visual art as Italo Calvino (1923-85).
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9780436210174 | New edition (Vintage Uk, January 6, 2005), cover price $29.60 | About this edition: Italian literary theorist and novelist Umberto Eco includes nine essays in this title concerning: the general significance of literature; major authors of the Western canon; the poetic qualities of Dante's 'Paradiso'; the style of the 'Communist Manifesto'; Joyce's views on language; and more.
9780151008124 | Houghton Mifflin, November 6, 2004, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A collection of essays and addresses includes the author's musings on Ptolemy, his reflections on the experimental writings of Borges and Joyce, and confessions about his own ambitions and anxieties.
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9780156032391 | Italian edition edition (Mariner Books, November 30, 2005), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A collection of essays and addresses includes the author's musings on Ptolemy, his reflections on the experimental writings of Borges and Joyce, and confessions about his own ambitions and anxieties.
Miscellaneous:
9780547543048 | Houghton Mifflin, November 14, 2005, cover price $15.00
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9780929087467 | Mehring Books, January 1, 1990, cover price $11.95
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