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  • Dante’s Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England

    The Collision of Two Worlds

    by Dr Jonathan Hughes ...
    Dante's Divine Comedy in Early Renaissance England compares the intellectual, emotional, and religious world of Dante in 13th-century Florence with that of a group of English intellectuals gathered around Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester, uncle of the King, Henry VI.Here, Jonathan Hughes establishes that there was a Renaissance in 15th-century England, encouraged by the discovery and translations of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Rise of Alchemy in Fourteenth-Century England

    Plantagenet Kings and the Search for the Philosopher's Stone

    by Dr Jonathan Hughes ...
    The first book to explore the importance of alchemy and its links to the occult in the period between 1320 and 1400. Alchemists didn't just try to turn metals into gold: they studied planetary influences on metals and people, refined plants and minerals in the search for medicines. This book illustrates how this branch of thought became more popular as the practical and theoretical knowledge of ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Premature Renaissance

    The Flourishing of the Mother Tongue in Fourteenth-Century Florence and London

    by Dr Jonathan Hughes ...
    Using a wide range of sources and a novel interdisciplinary approach, Jonathan Hughes convincingly argues that a renaissance occurred in late 14th-century Florence and London that had less to do with the discovery of classical antiquity than the inspiration of Dante's vernacular Divine Comedy. Hughes shines a light on how Petrarch, Boccaccio and Chaucer, writers working largely outside the ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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  • Reading Dante

    From Here to Eternity

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    The best and most eloquent introduction to Dante for our time.Prue Shaw is one of the world's foremost authorities on Dante. Written with the general reader in mind, Reading Dante brings her knowledge to bear in an accessible yet expert introduction to his great poem.This is far more than an exegesis of Dante’s three-part Commedia. Shaw communicates the imaginative power, the linguistic skill and ... Read more

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  • Dante

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Hainsworth, David Robey ...
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    In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiography, to understanding God and the order of the universe. In doing so, they highlight what has made Dante a vital point of reference for modern writers and readers, both inside and outside Italy. They ... Read more

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  • The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age

    by Frances Yates ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    It is hard to overestimate the importance of the contribution made by Dame Frances Yates to the serious study of esotericism and the occult sciences. To her work can be attributed the contemporary understanding of the occult origins of much of Western scientific thinking, indeed of Western civilization itself. The Occult Philosophy of the Elizabethan Age was her last book, and in it she condensed ... Read more

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  • Dante in Love

    The World's Greatest Poem and How It Made History

    by Harriet Rubin ...
    Dante in Love is the story of the most famous journey in literature. Dante Alighieri, exiled from his home in Florence, a fugitive from justice, followed a road in 1302 that took him first to the labyrinths of hell then up the healing mountain of purgatory, and finally to paradise. He found a vision and a language that made him immortal.Author Harriet Rubin follows Dante's path along the old ... Read more

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  • Friend to Mankind Marsilio Ficino 1433-1499

    by Marsilio Ficino ...
    Eighteen essays re examine Ficino’s life and work focusing on three essential aspects: his significance in his own times, his spreading influence throughout Europe and over subsequent centuries in many areas of thought and creativity, and his enduring relevance today. Translation of his major works from Latin enables a new generation to rediscover and share Ficino’s vision of human potential. ... Read more

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  • A Short History of the Renaissance

    by Edith Sichel ...
    MICHAEL ANGELO'S great painting of the newly created Adam on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel might be taken as a symbol of the Renaissance, of the time when man was, as it were, re-created more glorious than before, with a body naked and unashamed, and a strong arm, unimpaired by fasting, outstretched towards life and light. Definitions are generally misleading, and it is easier to represent the ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare: I am Italian. He reveals himself in coded messages

    by Vito Costantini ...
    The year 2016 is the four hundredth anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, the greatest playwright and poet of the English language. In reality, it was an illiterate actor who died in 1616. He had pilfered not only the stage name, but also the works of two Italian immigrants, Michelangelo and Giovanni Florio, father and son, who emigrated to England because of the Inquisition. In the last ... Read more

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  • The Fortunes of the Courtier

    The European Reception of Castiglione's Cortegiano

    by Peter Burke ...
    This book aims to understand the different readings of Castiglione's Cortegiano or Book of the Courtier from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. ... Read more

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