Italian LiteratureDecameronIn the summer of 1348, the plague ravages Florence, and ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside, where they entertain themselves with tales of love, death and corruption, featuring a host of colourful characters from lascivious... By: ISBN: 9781847490575 £12.99 £10.39 Save: 20% off Plays Vol.2This is the second of three volumes collecting the complete plays of Luigi Pirandello, one of the foremost playwrights and fiction writers of the twentieth century. This volume contains more masterpieces by the Italian playwright, winner of the 1938... By: ISBN: 9781847492241 £12.99 £10.39 Save: 20% off PoemsAfter her tragical death in December 1938 at the early age of twenty-six, Antonia Pozzi’s poems – which she had been secretly writing for years – were brought to light and became the object of great critical attention, going through several editions... By: ISBN: 9781847491855 £10.99 £8.79 Save: 20% off PurgatoryDescribing Dante’s second stage in his arduous journey to redemption, Purgatory features a host of unforgettable scenes and characters, and arguably some of the best poetry to be found in The Divine Comedy . The gloom, torments and evils of Hell... By: ISBN: 9781847491763 £10.99 £8.79 Save: 20% off Vita NuovaThe Vita Nuova , with its unusual blend of prose and poetry, is universally recognized as Dante’s early masterpiece and provides an indispensable prequel to The Divine Comedy . Set in thirteenth-century Florence, part autobiography and part... By: ISBN: 9781847491923 £8.99 £7.19 Save: 20% off ConstantinopleA remarkable nineteenth-century account of Istanbul – which begins with a dazzling description of the city gradually appearing through the fog as the author’s ship approaches the harbour – Constantinople expertly combines personal anecdote,... By: ISBN: 9781847491589 £9.99 £7.99 Save: 20% off ... more info Plays Vol.1This is the first of three volumes collecting the complete plays of Luigi Pirandello, one of the foremost playwrights and fiction writers of the twentieth century, and the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1934. Edited by actor and... By: ISBN: 9781847491442 £12.99 £10.39 Save: 20% off Complete PoemsDante’s best friend and a major exponent of the dolce stil novo , Guido Cavalcanti has had a lasting influence upon Italian poetry and is best known to English readers through the essays, translations and adaptations of Ezra Pound. Born from the... By: ISBN: 9781847491404 £10.99 £8.79 Save: 20% off InfernoDante’s dramatic journey through the circles of hell in search of redemption – and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of some of the greatest sinners who ever walked on earth – is one of the cornerstones of Western literature, the... By: ISBN: 9781847491398 £9.99 £7.99 Save: 20% off |
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