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  • The Pleasant Nights - Volume 2

    Edited by Don Beecher ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Renowned today for his contribution to the rise of the modern European fairy tale, Giovan Francesco Straparola (c. 1480–c. 1557) is particularly known for his dazzling anthology The Pleasant Nights. Originally published in Venice in 1550 and 1553, this collection features seventy-three folk stories, fables, jests, and pseudo-histories, including nine tales we might now designate for ‘mature ... Read more

    $99.99 CAD

  • The Pleasant Nights - Volume 1

    Edited by Don Beecher ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Renowned today for his contribution to the rise of the modern European fairy tale, Giovan Francesco Straparola (c. 1480–c. 1557) is particularly known for his dazzling anthology The Pleasant Nights. Originally published in Venice in 1550 and 1553, this collection features seventy-three folk stories, fables, jests, and pseudo-histories, including nine tales we might now designate for ‘mature ... Read more

    $116.99 CAD

  • Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies

    An Anthology of Italian Poetry from Pasolini to the Present, Tome 1, 1956-1975

    Edited by Luigi Ballerini, Giuseppe Cavatorta ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Those Who from Afar Look Like Flies is an anthology of poems and essays that aims to provide an organic profile of the evolution of Italian poetry after World War II. Beginning with the birth of Officina and Il Verri, and culminating with the crisis of the mid-seventies, this tome features works by such poets as Pasolini, Pagliarani, Rosselli, Sanguineti and Zanzotto, as well as such forerunners ... Read more

    $187.99 CAD

  • Renaissance Comedy

    The Italian Masters - Volume 1

    by Don Beecher, The Da Ponte Library ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    A rich and multi-faceted aspect of the Italian Renaissance, the comedy has been largely overlooked as a cultural force during the period. In Renaissance Comedy, editor Donald Beecher corrects this oversight with a collection of eleven comedies representative of the principal styles of writing that define the genre. Proceeding from early, ‘erudite’ imitations of Plautus and Terence to satires, ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Republic of Venice

    De magistratibus et republica Venetorum

    by Gasparo Contarini ...
    Translated by Amanda Murphy, Giuseppe Pezzini ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    At a time when social scientists are increasingly focusing on the reasons why nations fail and democracies die, Filippo Sabetti turns to the opposite issue, asking instead why institutions endure. To do so, he presents Gasparo Contarini’s sixteenth-century description of the Republic of Venice to help modern readers understand what made Venice the longest-lived self-constituted republic.In its ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570)

    L'arte et prudenza d'un maestro cuoco (The Art and Craft of a Master Cook)

    by Terence Scully ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Bartolomeo Scappi (c. 1500-1577) was arguably the most famous chef of the Italian Renaissance. He oversaw the preparation of meals for several Cardinals and was such a master of his profession that he became the personal cook for two Popes. At the culmination of his prolific career he compiled the largest cookery treatise of the period to instruct an apprentice on the full craft of fine cuisine, ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • The Complete Poems of Michelangelo

    Joseph Tusiani's Classic Translation

    by Michelangelo Buonarroti ...
    Translated by Joseph Tusiani ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Though known primarily as a sculptor and painter, Michelangelo was also a poet. In his lifetime, Michelangelo wrote over 300 poems, many of which were works of devotion and love poems of a spiritual and mystical nature.In 1961, Joseph Tusiani offered the first English translations of the complete corpus of Michelangelo’s poems. These translations illuminated the subtleties of both the source and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Craft of Living

    Journals, 1935-1950

    by Cesare Pavese ...
    Translated by Julian Sachs ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    The Craft of Living is a collection of journals written by Italian intellectual Cesare Pavese between 1935, when the Fascist regime exiled him to Calabria, and 1950, the year he committed suicide. This is the first English publication of these journals in their entirety.Cesare Pavese was a multifaceted intellectual and Italian author who was inspired both by the classical tradition and the ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • RIME

    The Complete Lyric Poetry

    by Richard Lansing ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    For centuries, the sonnet tradition has captivated European writers, beginning with Giacomo da Lentini and flourishing in the hands of Dante and Petrarch. Yet while Dante’s and Petrarch’s lyric poetry has long been available to English readers through numerous translations, the complete work of Giovanni Boccaccio – the third of Italy’s Three Crowns – remains largely inaccessible in English, ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • An Intellectual against Fascism

    Selected Writings

    by Piero Gobetti ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    As we approach the centenary of the death of Italian journalist, radical liberal, and anti-fascist intellectual Piero Gobetti (1901–26), his insights into liberalism and anti-fascism resonate more than ever, particularly in light of the resurgence of reactionary politics reminiscent of fascism and ongoing debates surrounding (neo-)liberalism.An Intellectual against Fascism offers anglophone ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • The First Voyage around the World (1519-1522)

    An Account of Magellan's Expedition

    by Antonio Pigafetta ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    On 10 August 1519, five ships departed from Seville for what was to become the first circumnavigation of the globe. Linked by fame to the name of its captain, Magellan, much of the expedition is known through the travelogue of one of the few crew members who returned to Spain, Antonio Pigafetta. A narrative and cartographic record of the journey (including 23 hand-drawn watercolour charts) from ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • The Ash Wednesday Supper

    A New Translation

    by Giordano Bruno, Hilary Gatti ...
    Series series Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library
    Giordano Bruno’s The Ash Wednesday Supper is the first of six philosophical dialogues in Italian that he wrote and published in London between 1584 and 1585. It presents a revolutionary cosmology founded on the new Copernican astronomy that Bruno extends to infinite dimensions, filling it with an endless number of planetary systems. As well as opening up the traditional closed universe and ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD