Bøger i Lorenzo Da Ponte Italian Library serien
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- New Translations of Six Major Plays
688,95 kr. In Pirandello's Theatre of Living Masks, Umberto Mariani and Alice Gladstone Mariani offer the first new edition in nearly sixty years of six of his major works.
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- 688,95 kr.
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1.453,95 kr. This vibrant bilingual edition, annotated by celebrated Bruno scholar Ingrid D. Rowland, features the text in its original Italian alongside an elegant, accurate English translation.
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- 1.453,95 kr.
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- An Account of Magellan's Expedition
533,95 kr. The First Voyage around the World is also a remarkably accurate ethnographic and geographical account of the circumnavigation, and one that has earned its reputation among modern historiographers and students of the early contacts between Europe and the East Indies.
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- 533,95 kr.
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- Fear, Hope, Happiness: Philosophy and Political Use
1.525,95 kr. The passions have long been condemned as the creator of disturbance and the purveyor of the temporary loss of reason, but, as Remo Bodei argues in Geometry of the Passions, we must abandon the perception that order and disorder are in a constant state of collision.
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1.399,95 kr. Containing a comprehensive introduction by Nicoletta Pireddu, this volume includes Sighele's seminal work, The Criminal Crowd, as well as his formative studies on group behaviour.
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- 1.399,95 kr.
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- An Anthology of Italian Poetry from Pasolini to the Present, Tome 1, 1956-1975
2.408,95 kr. 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.
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- 2.408,95 kr.
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1.085,95 kr. Five Comedies collects a selection of Goldoni's finest plays, annotated and translated into English: The New House, The Coffee House, and "The Holiday Trilogy" (Off to the Country, Adventures in the Country, and Back from the Country.
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- 1.085,95 kr.
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- Florentine Memoirs from the Middle Ages and Renaissance
961,95 kr. This new English translation of Merchant Writers includes all the texts from the original Italian edition in their entirety. Moreover, it offers a gripping personal introduction to the mercantile world of medieval and Renaissance Florence.
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- 961,95 kr.
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483,95 kr. Dialogues the first erotic book in the Christian world to be written in the common vernacular, it was but one of the few to describe the obscenity of commercial love, and is thus a cornerstone of both Italian literature and Counter-Renaissance vigour.
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- 483,95 kr.
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- Four Lectures
397,95 kr. In this edition, the Breviary of Aesthetics is presented in a brand new English translation and accompanied by informative endnotes that discuss many of the philosophers, writers, and works cited by Croce in his original text.
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- 397,95 kr.
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- Modern Philosophy in Italy, 1800-1950
1.018,95 kr. From Kant to Croce is a comprehensive, highly readable history of the main currents and major figures of modern Italian philosophy, described in a substantial introduction that details the development of the discipline from 1800 to 1950.
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- 1.018,95 kr.
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1.541,95 kr. Immensely entertaining and readable, The Pleasant Nights will appeal to anyone interested in fairy tales, ancient stories, and folk creations.
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1.315,95 kr. Immensely entertaining and readable, The Pleasant Nights will appeal to anyone interested in fairy tales, ancient stories, and folk creations.
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- A Worlde of Wordes
1.068,95 kr. Award-winning author Hermann W. Haller has prepared the first critical edition of A Worlde of Wordes, which features 46,000 Italian entries - among them dialect forms, erotic terminology, colloquial phrases, and proverbs of the Italian language.
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641,95 kr. This edition of the treatise - which includes an introduction by Geoffrey W. Symcox on the intellectual context within which it was conceived - is a must-read for anyone interested in the life of cities both historical and contemporary.
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- 641,95 kr.
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750,95 kr. The poems and prose included in this volume are emblematic of the two phases of Guittone's career: he first achieved fame as a secular love poet but following his conversion in the 1260s he became a renowned religious poet
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- 750,95 kr.
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1.228,95 kr. Michael Papio's excellent translation finally makes the entirety of Boccaccio's often overlooked masterpiece accessible to a wider public and supplies a wealth of information in the notes that will prove useful to specialists and to general readers alike.
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- 1.228,95 kr.
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- The Italian Masters - Volume 1
483,95 - 1.058,95 kr. As a much-needed reappraisal of these comedic plays, Renaissance Comedy is an invaluable look at the performance history of the Renaissance and Italian culture in general.
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- Six Tales in Historical Context
418,95 kr. Revealing the concerns of a searching historical work with a combined anthropological, demographic, and cultural slant, An Italian Renaissance Sextet shines a probing light on Italian Renaissance culture.
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- The Art and Grace of Living Long
722,95 kr. This edition offers the most coherent, uncensored, and complete rendering of this Early Modern classic ever available in English.
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- 722,95 kr.
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- The Salvernini Anthology of Cattaneo's Writings
418,95 - 783,95 kr. The selection of original pieces presented in this translation is preceded by an introduction by the editors, Carlo G. Lacaita and Filippo Sabetti, which guides the reader through Cattaneo's thinking and puts it in a comparative context. Ultimately, however, it is the editors' goal to let this profound Italian thinker speak for himself.
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- A New Translation
522,95 kr. Giordano Bruno's The Ash Wednesday Supper 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.
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- 522,95 kr.
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- Tall Tales and Short
356,95 - 733,95 kr. Through clear and fluid translations, Nicolas J. Perella demonstrates Palazzeschi's use of laughter to debunk social and literary myths.
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753,95 kr. My Karst and My City and Other Essays is the first book available in English on the work of Scipio Slataper, one of the most prominent intellectuals active in Trieste at the turn of the twentieth century.
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472,95 kr. . Long appreciated as a foundational text in criminology, Beccaria's arguments have become central in debates over capital punishment. This new edition presents Beccaria's On Crimes and Punishments as an important and influential work of Enlightenment political theory.
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- 472,95 kr.
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- The Italian Masters - Volume 2
498,95 - 1.033,95 kr. In this second volume of Renaissance Comedy, Donald Beecher presents six more of the best-known plays of the period, each with its own introduction, reading notes, and annotations.
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- 498,95 kr.
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- L'arte et prudenza d'un maestro cuoco (The Art and Craft of a Master Cook)
586,95 kr. Scappi's Opera presents more than one thousand recipes along with menus that comprise up to a hundred dishes, while also commenting on a cook's responsibilities.
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- 586,95 kr.
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360,95 - 527,95 kr. This volume presents the first translation in English of the complete poetry of Giacomo da Lentini, the first major lyric poet of the Italian vernacular.
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- 360,95 kr.
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1.013,95 kr. As an anthology of the works of Paolo Mantegazza, a writer of diverse topical orientations, this volume is also an account of the circulation of ideas and cross-fertilization of disciplines that defined a crucial period of Italian and European cultural life.
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- 1.013,95 kr.