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  • Women and Weasels

    Mythologies of Birth in Ancient Greece and Rome

    by Maurizio Bettini ...
    Translated by Emlyn Eisenach ...
    If you told a woman her sex had a shared, long-lived history with weasels, she might deck you. But those familiar with mythology know better: that the connection between women and weasels is an ancient and favorable one, based in the Greek myth of a midwife who tricked the gods to ease Heracles's birth—and was turned into a weasel by Hera as punishment. Following this story as it is retold over ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Husbands, Wives, and Concubines

    Marriage, Family, and Social Order in Sixteenth-Century Verona

    by Emlyn Eisenach ...
    Series series Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
    Emlyn Eisenach uses a wide range of sources, including the richly detailed and previously unexplored records of nearly two hundred marriage-related disputes from the bishop’s court of Verona, to illuminate family and social relations in early modern northern Italy. Arguing against the common emphasis on the growth of law and government in this period, her study emphasizes the fluidity of the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Boccaccio

    A Biography

    by Marco Santagata ...
    Translated by Emlyn Eisenach ...
    A comprehensive biography of the celebrated author of the Decameron, a medieval masterpiece written in early Italian.Boccaccio (1313–75) stands with Dante and Petrarch as one of the “Three Crowns” of Italian letters, a trio of writers who shaped the history of humanism, literature, and poetry. In this book, Dante’s award-winning biographer, Marco Santagata, takes up the moving life and legacy of ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • The Honest Courtesan

    Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice

    by Margaret F. Rosenthal ...
    The Venetian courtesan has long captured the imagination as a female symbol of sexual license, elegance, beauty, and unruliness. What then to make of the cortigiana onesta—the honest courtesan who recast virtue as intellectual integrity and offered wit and refinement in return for patronage and a place in public life? Veronica Franco (1546-1591) was such a woman, a writer and citizen of Venice, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Monuments And Maidens

    The Allegory of the Female Form

    by Marina Warner ...
    'Why should Truth be a woman? Or Nature? Or Justice? Or Liberty? Not, certainly, because women have been more free, just, truthful, nor even (though this one has a double edge) more natural. Marina Warner sets out to breathe some life into the army of petrified personages that litters western cityscapes... As her book shows, these stony ladies can be persuaded to yield surprisingly interesting ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Renaissance Woman

    The Life of Vittoria Colonna

    by Ramie Targoff ...
    A biography of Vittoria Colonna, confidante of Michelangelo, scion of one of the most powerful families of her era, and a pivotal figure in the Italian RenaissanceRamie Targoff's Renaissance Woman tells of the most remarkable woman of the Italian Renaissance: Vittoria Colonna, Marchesa of Pescara. Vittoria has long been celebrated by scholars of Michelangelo as the artist's best friend—the two of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages

    by Ernst Robert Curtius ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court

    Music and the Circulation of Power

    by Suzanne G. Cusick ...
    A "priceless" study of the life and career of the Renaissance-era Italian who was the first woman to have composed an opera ( Gender & History)."Extraordinary in its breadth, its detail, its insight, and its worth to all participants in early music…. Its contribution is not limited to the musical world, however, as Cusick's remarkable command and analysis of her material…has immense value for ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Phantom Armies of the Night

    The Wild Hunt and the Ghostly Processions of the Undead

    by Claude Lecouteux ...
    An exploration of the many forms of the ancient myth of the Wild Hunt and its influence in pagan and early Christian Europe• Recounts the myriad variations of this legend, from the Cursed Huntsman and King Herla to phantom armies and vast processions of sinners and demons• Explains how this belief was an integral part of the pagan worldview and was thus employed by the church to spread Christian ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Boccaccio

    A Critical Guide to the Complete Works

    Edited by Victoria Kirkham,, Michael Sherberg, Janet Levarie Smarr ...
    Long celebrated as one of "the Three Crowns" of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and innovative writings—which range beyond the novella, from lyric to epic, from biography to mythography and geography, from pastoral and romance to invective—became powerful models for authors in Italy and across the Continent.This collection of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Idea of a Town

    The Anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World

    by Joseph Rykwert ...
    Roman towns and their history are generally regarded as being the preserve of the archaeologist or the economic historian. In this famous, unusual and radical book which touches on such disparate themes as psychology and urban architecture, Joseph Rykwert has considered them as works of art. His starting point is the mythical, historical and ritual texts in which their foundation is recounted ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Petrarch

    A Critical Guide to the Complete Works

    Edited by Victoria Kirkham, Armando Maggi ...
    Although Francesco Petrarca (1304–74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet's place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age. Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works is the only comprehensive, single-volume source to which anyone—scholar, student, or general reader—can turn for information on each of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus