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9781780932149 | Bristol Classical Pr, February 6, 2014, cover price $120.00

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9781474244039 | Rev upd edition (Bloomsbury USA Academic, June 18, 2015), cover price $39.95

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9780802039248 | Univ of Toronto Pr, December 2, 2005, cover price $67.00

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9781442626720 | Univ of Toronto Pr, January 2, 2014, cover price $32.95

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9781107001138 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 14, 2011, cover price $104.99

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9781107693654 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 21, 2013, cover price $29.99

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Product Description: The volume is a collection of essays focussing on the cultural construction, perception and representation of public and private spaces in 20th and 21st century Italian culture. Through the study of a variety of spaces, this book provides an exploration of the notions of private self and public sphere and considers their interaction...read more
By Simona Storchi (editor)

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9782875740427 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, July 18, 2013, cover price $46.95 | About this edition: The volume is a collection of essays focussing on the cultural construction, perception and representation of public and private spaces in 20th and 21st century Italian culture.

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Product Description: This volume seeks to gauge the import of the Italian Renaissance in shaping the foundations of what we conventionally define as 'modernity.' The authors engage in an interpretative conversation with historians and thinkers such as Jacob Burckardt, Ernst Cassirer, Martin Heidegger, Eugenio Garin, and Louis Dupre, whose works have oriented the search for the roots of modernity and for the significance of Renaissance Humanism...read more

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9789004224308 | Brill Academic Pub, August 1, 2012, cover price $177.00 | About this edition: This volume seeks to gauge the import of the Italian Renaissance in shaping the foundations of what we conventionally define as 'modernity.

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Product Description: In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey examine Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its history. The authors illuminate such topics as regional identities, political disunity, and the role of the national language and they cover a wide range of authors and works, including Dante, Petrarch, Manzoni, Montale, and Calvino...read more

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9780199231799 | Oxford Univ Pr, March 24, 2012, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey examine Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its history.

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Product Description: One of the world's most influential cultural critics, Antonio Gramsci's writings on the interconnection between culture and politics fundamentally changed the way that scholars view both. Among the first to argue that art is not the product of "men of genius" but rather particular historical and social contexts, Gramsci remains one of the most widely read theorists of modern culture...read more

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9781608461363 | Haymarket Books, August 7, 2012, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: One of the world's most influential cultural critics, Antonio Gramsci's writings on the interconnection between culture and politics fundamentally changed the way that scholars view both.

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Product Description: Focusing on major authors and problems from the Italian fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, from Petrarch and Boccaccio to Machiavelli, Ariosto and Tasso, A Local Habitation and a Name examines the unstable dialectic of realityand imagination,as well as of historyand literature...read more

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9780823234288 | Fordham Univ Pr, September 1, 2011, cover price $115.00

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9780823234295 | Fordham Univ Pr, September 1, 2011, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Focusing on major authors and problems from the Italian fourteenth and sixteenth centuries, from Petrarch and Boccaccio to Machiavelli, Ariosto and Tasso, A Local Habitation and a Name examines the unstable dialectic of realityand imagination,as well as of historyand literature.

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By Walter Stephens (editor)

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9780801894145 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, February 23, 2010, cover price $70.00

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Product Description: Book three of the Italian poet Matteo Maria Boiardo's epic poem Orlando innamorato (Orlando in Love) was published posthumously in 1494; in 1532, the poet Ludovico Ariosto published his final version of a sequel, Orlando furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando)...read more

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9780802096845 | Univ of Toronto Pr, October 15, 2009, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Book three of the Italian poet Matteo Maria Boiardo's epic poem Orlando innamorato (Orlando in Love) was published posthumously in 1494; in 1532, the poet Ludovico Ariosto published his final version of a sequel, Orlando furioso (The Frenzy of Orlando).

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Product Description: In this groundbreaking study, unique in English, Joseph Luzzi considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines the metaphors, facts, and fictions about Italy that were born in the Romantic age and continue to haunt the global literary imagination...read more

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9780300123555 | Yale Univ Pr, November 18, 2008, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: In this groundbreaking study, unique in English, Joseph Luzzi considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy.

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Product Description: In this book, Teodolinda Barolini explores the sources of Italian literary culture in the figures of its lyric poets and its “three crowns”: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Barolini views the origins of Italian literary culture through four prisms: the ideological/philosophical, the intertextual/multicultural, the structural/formal, and the social...read more

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9780823227037 | Fordham Univ Pr, November 15, 2006, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: In this book, Teodolinda Barolini explores the sources of Italian literary culture in the figures of its lyric poets and its “three crowns”: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio.

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9780823227044 | Fordham Univ Pr, November 15, 2006, cover price $40.00

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9780836903836, titled "Teacher of Dante and Other Studies in Italian Literature" | Facsimile edition (Ayer Co Pub, June 1, 1908), cover price $16.00

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9781428641785 | Kessinger Pub Co, July 31, 2006, cover price $31.95

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Product Description: This collection of original essays by leading specialists from Britain, North America and Italy explores the relationship between literature and science in Italian culture. Encompassing a variety of authors and topics across four broad periods - medieval, Renaissance, Enlightenment to Positivism, and Twentieth Century - the volume presents previously unexplored connections between the discourses of literature and science, and offers a variety of new critical readings...read more
By Pierpaolo Antonello (editor), Patrick Boyde (editor) and Simon A. Gilson (editor)

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9781900755849 | Legenda, August 1, 2004, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: This collection of original essays by leading specialists from Britain, North America and Italy explores the relationship between literature and science in Italian culture.

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Product Description: Queer Italia gathers essays on Italian literature and film, medieval to modern. The volume's chronological organization reflects its intention to define a queer tradition in Italian culture. While fully cognizant of the theoretical risks inherent in trans-historicizing sexuality, the contributors to this volume share an interest in probing the multi-form dynamics of sexual desires in Italian texts through the centuries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Gary P. Cestaro (editor)

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9780312240240 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 23, 2004, cover price $85.00

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9780312240264 | Palgrave Macmillan, July 23, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Queer Italia gathers essays on Italian literature and film, medieval to modern.

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9788877155429 | 2 edition (Varsitybooks.Com, January 31, 2004), cover price $0.02
9789990049800 | Varsitybooks.Com, January 31, 2004, cover price $0.02

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