Product Description: With echoes of Boccaccio and Cervantes, Poe and Kafka, Arturo Loria tells stories of corpse-bearers and beggars, of jealous goats, aging coquettes, and traveling performers. Near-fables, these stories are populated with figures — called simply "the waiter," "the knife-grinder," "the blind man," and "the beauty" — who move in a world seemingly unmarked by particular times and spaces...read more

Product Description: This book is a new English version of the third edition (1963) of Longhi’s seminal work on the Renaissance painter Piero della Francesca, with an introduction by Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Keith Christiansen.