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Contributors to this volume of essays on Francis Petrarch are Aldo Scaglione, Joseph G. Fucilla, Thomas G. Bergin, Maria Picchio Simonelli, Fredi Chiappelli, Julia Conway Bondanella, Oscar Budel, Marga Cottino-Jones, Christopher Kleinhenz, Sara Sturm, Concetta Carestia Greenfield, Armaud Tripet, Douglas Radcliff-Umstead, Conrad H. Rawski, John E. Wrigley, Eugenio Battisti, Benjamin Kohl, Angelo Mazzocco, Jerome Taylor, Donald L. Guss, Paolo Cherchi, Frank L. Borchardt, Gerhard Dunnhaupt, and Gerhart Hoffmeister.

Bernart de Ventadorn was a twelfth-century Catalan poet and troubador. These forty-one poems, filled with nostalgia, joy, and tenderness, were written between 1150 and 1180. This edition, with notes and a complete glossary, contains the original texts accompanied by the only English translations available at the time of publication.

Studies the dynamics of colonial subject identity construction as elaborated in the exemplary eighteenth-century travel book, El lazarillo de ciegos caminantes (A Guide for Inexperienced Travelers ). Mariselle Melendez analyses elements of race and gender to argue that they become essential parts of the colonialist project which the author articulates throughout his travel diary.

Contains twenty-one essays by former students, colleagues, and distinguished scholars throughout the United States, presented in honor of Professor Wiley's sixty-fifth birthday.

This is a study that traces the influence of drugs on French literature. The first three chapters acquaint the reader with various aspects of the use and effect of opium and hashish. Later chapters analyze the influence on the works of various writers of the period, particularly Baudelaire.

Contains fifteen essays, primarily in the areas of Romance philology and medieval literature, by former students, colleagues, and distinguished scholars, presented to Louis Francis Solano upon retirement from active teaching.

A critical edition of an adaptation of the Discipline Clericalis, the first western collection of eastern apologues, written between 1105 and 1110 by Petrus Alphonsi. The literary and social impact of this work was profound; we find adaptations of its prologues in the vernacular literatures of western Europe and evidence that medieval ecclesiastics used them in their sermons.

Examines mannerism and baroque in the poetry of Tristan L'Hermite, a leading lyric poet of the seventeenth century. After presenting a history of scholarship on both the mannerist and baroque styles, James Shepard offers a definition of each as it applies to seventeenth-century lyric poetry.

Situates Juan Manuel at the apex of the European literary tradition of the exemplum. Following the medieval modes of reading and writing that structure Juan Manuel's text, this title uncovers a rhetorical lesson woven into the entire five-part Conde Lucanor that lays bare the inherent ambivalence of the exemplum as a narrative sign.

Influenced by trends in medicine, town planning and social etiquette, Madrid's middle class viewed urban growth with apprehension in the second half of the nineteenth century. In Mapping the Social Body, Collin McKinney examines manifestations and critiques of that reaction in the work of Benito Perez Galdos, Spain's greatest modern novelist.

By analyzing testimonial writing, works of fiction, and critical theory, Joanna R. Bartow examines the self-representation of testimonial subjects.

Robert Burgess's study of Platonism in Desportes poetry rounds out those of his predecessors in the 16th-century field, particularly Merrill, Kerr, and Lefrancz.

Juan del Valle Caviedes (1645-1697), also known as Caviedes, was a seventeenth-century Peruvian poet. Daniel R. Reedy's examination of his life and work includes a survey of critical commentaries on his poetry since 1791 and a brief history of the editions of his works.

This biographical and critical study of Gabriel de la Concepcion Valdes (1809-1844), better known as Placido, investigates the mystery surrounding his life and execution, and reveals misattributions of his works in previous English translations.

Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was an Italian philosopher, poet, mathematician, and astrologer. This is the first English translation published in the twentieth century of his De gli eroici furori, or The Heroic Frenzies.

This is the first translation into modern English of the story of Floire and Blanchefleur, a popular romantic story that appeared in numerous languages of both northern and southern Europe well into the Renaissance.

This descriptive study of the sentence structure of the French language from 1300 to 1515 bridges the gap between Lucien Foulet's Petite syntaxe de l'ancien francais and Haase's Syntaxe francais du XVII siecle.

This is the first English-language study of bestiaries, mediaeval works that described and illustrated animals, birds, and other creatures. Florence McCulloch describes the nature of the Latin Physiologus, which is frequently cited as among the earliest examples of serious works of natural history.

Mario Pei (1901-1978) was a writer, linguist, translator, and academic who wrote more than fifty books and had a distinguished career at Columbia University. This volume of Pei's scholarly articles was selected by his students and colleagues, and published posthumously.

This volume is composed of fifteen essays on Hispanic subjects by scholars from the United States and abroad, and it was presented to Professor Adams in his seventieth year.

Editing this work in the context of modern scholarship has involved many literary and linguistic problems left untouched by the Meyer edition of 1880. The present edition provides a new, accurate reading of the sole manuscript, supported by copious textual notes and chapters on versification, dating, and language of author and scribe.

Provides commentary on Diderot's translation of Shaftesbury's An Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit. By comparing the translation and notes, Walters demonstrates the evolution of Diderot's thought and artistic skill. Walters discusses the difference between theism and deism, the question of universal order, and compares atheism with free thought.

After a preface describing the purpose and content of this work, the author presents a lengthy bibliography of sources. The proper names in the lyrics of the troubadours follows. Frank M. Chambers' book endeavours to include all the proper names found in the lyric poems of the twelfth and thirteenth century poets known as the troubadours.

After a discussion of the youth, education, and early writings of Canete, the author turns to the Madrid years with El Faro and later with El Haraldo. Canete's connection with the Academia Espanola is also discussed as is his response to the post-romantic era.

This story concerns the capture by Alexander's forces of the city of Milide. As an example of courtly literature, Le Parfait combines, curiously, aristocratic refinement with descriptions of violent and bloody battles. The critical apparatus includes an introduction, linguistic study, variants, notes, glossary, and index of proper names.

One of the most colourful episodes in Moliere's career was the so-called Comic War, the controversy provoked by the successful production of L'Ecole des Femmes. Among the ultimately unsuccessful attempts by rival dramatists to discredit him and his theatre, the three comedies published in this volume were particularly notable.

Based on contemporary sources and recent authoritative scholarship, this analytical index brings together in concise form the available information concerning each of the persons and works named or alluded to in Sainte-Beuve's most-discussed book. The introduction, index, notes, and appendixes are in French.

In this volume Judith Rice Rothschild offers close readings and comparisons of the Lais in order to examine Marie de France's narrative technique.