Product Description: "Illustrations to Dante's Inferno" offers to a general readership, in a compact and inexpensive format, and through 400 plates, a critical overview of illustrations to the Inferno from the age of Dante to modern times.

Product Description: Various essays in the history and literature of Central New York, especially the ethnic history and literature of East Utica, the Italian-American enclave. Some personal essays of the Lebanese-American author in that context.

Product Description: Nationally celebrated as a painter and illustrator of scenes of Italian American life, Robert Cimbalo was known early in his career as The Printmaker, and this book brings together a selection of his lithographs, etchings, woodcuts, and drawings...read more

Product Description: This testimonial volume of Francis Fiorentino's work exhibits Fiorentino as a master of design and colour, a great draftsman, and an intuitive and powerful creator of symbols of the human condition.

Product Description: This volume contains 21 vignettes on the history and literature of Central New York, illustrated by 25 drawings and paintings by Robert Cimbalo, graphics artist and painter. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In this collection of two prose poems, Eugene Nassar provides an anecdotal portrayal of Lebanese American culture, capturing the joys and sorrows that characterized immigrant life in the 20th century.

Product Description: In this collection of essays, the author draws on his own childhood to show how family, place and culture fit into the wider contexts of literature and social history. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Through critical discussion of works by Lawrence, James, and Gibran, and critiques of Marx, Freud, Jung, and McLuhan, the author articulates and refines his metacritical assumptions. He argues that it is ultimately necessary to hold values and beliefs that are not susceptible to scientific proof or disproof...read more