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54by Wu MingISBN 8497938135 (84-9793-813-5)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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The Adventures of Pinocchioby Carlo Collodi, Carol D. Chiesa, Attilio MussinoISBN 0027228215 (0-02-722821-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Adventures of Pinocchio'Book summary:Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child Centuries ago there lived - "A king!" my little readers will say immediately. [via]
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As a Man Grows Olderby Italo Svevo, Beryl De ZoeteISBN 1557131287 (1-55713-128-7)
Softcover, Sun & Moon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'As a Man Grows Older'Book summary:Not so long ago Emilio Brentani was a promising young author. Now he is an insurance agent on the fast track to forty. He gains a new lease on life, though, when he falls for the young and gorgeous Angiolina-except that his angel just happens to be an unapologetic cheat. But what begins as a comedy of infatuated misunderstanding ends in tragedy, as Emilio's jealous persistence in his folly-against his friends' and devoted sister's advice, and even his own best knowledge-leads to the loss of the one person who, too late, he realizes he truly loves. Marked by deep humanity and earthy humor, by psychological insight and an elegant simplicity of style, As a Man Grows Older (Senilità, in Italian; the English title was the suggestion of Svevo's great friend and admirer, James Joyce) is a brilliant study of hopeless love and hapless indecision. It is a masterwork of Italian literature, here beautifully rendered into English in Beryl de Zoete's classic translation. [via]
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As a Man Grows Olderby Ettore SchmitzISBN 0837198194 (0-8371-9819-4)
Hardcover, Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
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Bread and Wineby Ignazio SiloneISBN 0848264657 (0-8482-6465-7)
Hardcover, Norwood Editions
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bread and Wine'Book summary:[via]One of the 20th century's essential novels depicting Fascism's rise in Italy.
Set and written in Fascist Italy, this book exposes that regime's use of brute force for the body and lies for the mind. Through the story of the once-exiled Pietro Spina, Italy comes alive with priests and peasants, students and revolutionaries, all on the brink of war.More editions of Bread and Wine:
Contemptby Alberto Moravia, Angus Davidson, Tim ParksISBN 1590171225 (1-59017-122-5)
Softcover, New York Review of Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Contempt'Book summary:Obsessive and confessional, sifting over every action and thought, "Contempt" is a tale about the precarious nature of love and integrity; a study of the limits of our subjective nature and of storytelling itself. It was adapted for the screen by Jean-Luc Godard in 1963. [via]
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Dante's Paradiso: Paradiseby Dante Alighieri, Charles Eliot NortonISBN 1420926403 (1-4209-2640-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Paradiso: Paradise'Book summary:The "Divine Comedy" was entitled by Dante himself merely "Commedia," meaning a poetic composition in a style intermediate between the sustained nobility of tragedy, and the popular tone of elegy. The word had no dramatic implication at that time, though it did involve a happy ending. The poem is the narrative of a journey down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory, and through the revolving heavens into the presence of God. In this aspect it belongs to the two familiar medieval literary types of the Journey and the Vision. It is also an allegory, representing under the symbolism of the stages and experiences of the journey, the history of a human soul, painfully struggling from sin through purification to the Beatific Vision. Contained in this volume is the third part of the "Divine Comedy," the "Paradiso" or "Paradise," from the translation of Charles Eliot Norton. [via]
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Dante's Purgatorio: Purgatoryby Dante Alighieri, Charles Eliot NortonISBN 142092639X (1-4209-2639-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dante's Purgatorio: Purgatory'Book summary:The "Divine Comedy" was entitled by Dante himself merely "Commedia," meaning a poetic composition in a style intermediate between the sustained nobility of tragedy, and the popular tone of elegy. The word had no dramatic implication at that time, though it did involve a happy ending. The poem is the narrative of a journey down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory, and through the revolving heavens into the presence of God. In this aspect it belongs to the two familiar medieval literary types of the Journey and the Vision. It is also an allegory, representing under the symbolism of the stages and experiences of the journey, the history of a human soul, painfully struggling from sin through purification to the Beatific Vision. Contained in this volume is the second part of the "Divine Comedy," the "Purgatorio" or "Purgatory," from the translation of Charles Eliot Norton. [via]
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Decameronby Giovanni BoccaccioISBN 1404301305 (1-4043-0130-5)
Hardcover, Indypublish.Com
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Decameron'Book summary:In the early summer of the year 1348, as a terrible plague ravages the city, ten charming young Florentines take refuge in country villas to tell each other stories - a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fortune which later inspired Chaucer, Keats and Shakespeare. While Dante is a stern moralist, Boccaccio has little time for chastity, pokes fun at crafty, hypocritical clerics and celebrates the power of passion to overcome obstacles and social divisions. Like the Divine Comedy, the Decameron is a towering monument of medieval pre-Renaissance literature, and incorporates certain important elements that are not at once apparent to today's readers. In a new introduction to this revised edition, which also includes additional explanatory notes, maps, bibliography and indexes, Professor McWilliam shows us Boccaccio for what he is - one of the world's greatest masters of vivid and exciting prose fiction. [via]
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Divina Comedia / Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 8437607299 (84-376-0729-9)
Softcover, Catedra Ediciones
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Divina Comedia / Divine Comedy'Book summary:La figura de Dante sobresale indiscutiblemente por encima de sus contemporaneos. A caballo entre dos siglos, la edad vieja, duecuento, y la nueva, trecento, se funden en su obra. De la primera recoge la sutil tematica -stilnovista-, irradiando su propia erudicion en todos los campos del saber; el trecento manifiesta una concepcion mas moderna del gusto, un interes mas discreto para los clasicos y una vision mas amplia de la vida moral. La comoposicion de la Divina Comedia ocupo los ultimos quince anos de la vida de Dante, convirtiendose en un empeño de caracter cientifico, filosofico, teologico e historico, a la vez que en una experiencia ascetica que acomete el alma del poeta. [via]
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The Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 1404383638 (1-4043-8363-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:Translated and edited by Thomas G. Bergin, this edition of The Divine Comedy is complete and features a new verse translation aimed at clarity over slavish literalness and ornate phraseology. Various passages that detail historical figures or are digressive discourses have been reduced to prose summaries. Includes pictorial representations of Hell, Purgatory, and the Cosmos, as well as a guide to Italian pronunciation. Also featured are an introduction, a list of principal dates in Dante's life, and a bibliography. [via]
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Hardcover, Carcanet New Press - The Divine Comedy: ISBN 0890095957 (0-89009-595-7)
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The Divine Comedyby Peter Dale, Alighieri DanteISBN 0856462802 (0-85646-280-2)
Softcover, Anvil Pr Poetry Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Divine Comedy'Book summary:Dante's masterpiece is undoubtedly one of the supreme works of world literature. Peter Dale's achievement has been to produce a complete version in modern English that echoes Dante's "sweet new style" while keeping to the poet's demanding terza rima verse pattern. It is a handsome reader's edition -- accurate, clear and compelling -- and contains a fascinating introduction on the poem's history, and its influence on English poetry through the ages. [via]
El Decameronby Giovanni BocaccioISBN 8495002981 (84-95002-98-1)
Hardcover, Edimat Libros
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El Principe / the Princeby Nicolas MaquiaveloISBN 8420639567 (84-206-3956-7)
Softcover, Alianza Editorial Sa
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Great Books of the Western Worldby Encyclopdia Britannica, inc., Robert Maynard HutchinsISBN 0852291639 (0-85229-163-9)
Hardcover, Encyclopdia Britannica
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Great Books of the Western World'Book summary:The Iliad (Ancient Greek ?????, Ilias) is, together with the Odyssey, one of two ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer, a supposedly blind Ionian poet. The epics are considered by most modern scholars to be the oldest literature in the Greek language. The Iliad concerns events during the tenth and final year in the siege of the city of Ilion, or Troy, by the Greeks. The Odyssey (Greek: ????????, Odusseia)is commonly dated circa 800 to 600 BC. The poem is, in part, a sequel to Homer's Iliad and mainly concerns the events that befall the Greek hero Odysseus (or Ulysses) in his long journeys after the fall of Troy and when he at last returns to his native land of Ithaca. [via]
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Historyby William Weaver, Elsa MoranteISBN 1586420046 (1-58642-004-6)
Softcover, Steerforth Pr
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The Idea Of Homeby Curtis WhiteISBN 1557131449 (1-55713-144-9)
Softcover, Sun & Moon Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Idea Of Home'Book summary:In Curtis White's first novel, The Idea Of Home, he attempts to imagine "a place in which humans can live". This utopia is definitely not San Lorenzo - a post-war, prefabricated suburb in California - where White grew up and which is the basis for this novel. From the vantage point of anoff-kilter adulthood, White spins recent American history together with personal observations and investigations into the dark heart of American suburbia. Shocking, yet very funny and always learned, The Idea Of Home is a mix of the personal and the philosophical in an energetic collage that would resemble the biographies of Nietzsche and Mark Twain if they had grown up in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s and '60s. [via]
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Infernoby Dante Alighieri, Henry Francis Cary, Claire HonessISBN 1853267872 (1-85326-787-2)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Inferno'Book summary:Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) is one of the most important and innovative figures of the European Middle Ages. Writing his Comedy (the epithet 'Divine' was added by later admirers) in exile from his native Florence, he aimed to address a world gone astray both morally and politically. At the same time, he sought to push back the restrictive rules which traditionally governed writing in the Italian vernacular, to produce a radically new and all-encompassing work. The Comedy tells the story of the journey of a character who is at one and the same time both Dante himself and Everyman. In The Inferno, Dante's protagonist - and his reader - is presented with a graphic vision of the dreadful consequences of sin, and encounters an all-too-human array of noble, grotesque, beguiling, ridiculous and horrific characters. [via]
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LA Luna E I Faloby Cesare PaveseISBN 8806155466 (88-06-15546-6)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Luna E I Falo'Book summary:Written in 1949 and published shortly before his suicide, Cesare Pavese's last novel provides a strongly evocative, but detailed and concrete picture of life in the Piedmontese hills, seen through the eyes of a returned American immigrant. However, its main interest does not lie in its realism, a mode of writing which Pavese himself rejected. Instead, the novel's focus is on deeper levels of experience, the mysterious underlying continuities beneath the changing surface of life. In seeking to go beyond the limits set by the conventions of realism, the book combines an account of everyday life with a sense of its hidden dimensions. This edition contains a revised and expanded introduction to the novel, focusing particularly on the combination of realism and symbolism or myth that characterizes Pavese's writing. The edition also contains a bibliography, notes and vocabulary which should serve to make the text more readily accessible to students at both the high school and university level.[via]More editions of LA Luna E I Falo:
The Late Mattia Pascalby Luigi Pirandello, William WeaverISBN 0941419444 (0-941419-44-4)
Softcover, Marsilio Pub
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Hardcover, Hippocrene Books - The Late Mattia Pascal: ISBN 0941419088 (0-941419-08-8)
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The Late Mattia Pascalby William Weaver, Luigi Pirandello, Charles SimicISBN 1590171152 (1-59017-115-2)
Softcover, New York Review of Books
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A Lifeby Italo Svevo, Archibald ColquhounISBN 1901285626 (1-901285-62-6)
Softcover, Pushkin Pr Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Life'Book summary:The story of the frustrated existence of Alfonso, a bank clerk who wants to be a poet and seems to be falling in love with Annetta, the daughter of his boss. But the emptiness of both his attempts at writing and at love lead to an ironic and painful conclusion.
Italo Svevo was born Hector Schmitz in Trieste in 1861 and educated in Bavaria. As a young man he worked in a bank. In 1892 he published A Life at his own expense and followed it in 1896 with As a Man Grows Older. His friend, James Joyce, was eventually able to use his influence to make Svevo known in Europe but Svevo was killed in a car accident in 1928 before he could enjoy his fame.
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Margherita Dolce Vitaby Stefano Benni, Antony ShugaarISBN 1933372206 (1-933372-20-6)
Softcover, Europa Editions Inc
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"A master of political satire infused with a dose of the fantastical."-World Literature Today
Stefano Benni's enormously popular and distinctive mix of the absurd and the satiri-cal has made him one of Italy's most important and best-loved novelists. This is his twelfth best-selling book of fiction.
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Fifteen-year-old Margherita lives with her eccentric family on the outskirts of town, a semi-urban wilderness peopled by gypsies, illegal immigrants, and no end of bizarre characters: a reassuring and fertile playground for an imaginative little girl like Margherita. But one day, a gigantic, black cube shows up next door. Her new neighbors have arrived, and they're destined to ruin everything.More editions of Margherita Dolce Vita:
The Moon and the Bonfiresby Cesare Pavese, R. W. Flint, Mark RudmanISBN 1590170210 (1-59017-021-0)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Mr. Palomarby Italo CalvinoISBN 0151628351 (0-15-162835-1)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mr. Palomar'Book summary:Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath'. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr Palomar's observations render the world afresh. [via]
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Paradisoby Alighieri DanteISBN 0916349381 (0-916349-38-1)
Softcover, Amity House
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The Paradisoby Peter Bondanella, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dante Alighieri, Julia Conaway BondanellaISBN 1593083173 (1-59308-317-3)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Paradiso'Book summary:[via]The Paradiso, by Dante Alighieri, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:Dantes Paradiso, often thrown into shadow by the first two parts of The Divine Comedy, features one of the most sublime, luminous, and exciting visions in all of literaturethat of Heaven itself.
Having climbed the mountain of Purgatory, Dante begins to ascend to the heights of the universe with his beloved Beatrice as guide. They soar through the nine spheres of heaventhe moon, Mercury, Venus, the sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, the stars, and the Prime Mover. Along the way Dante meets people he knew on Earth, who now appear as dazzling jewels, and many others whom he had always wanted to meet, such as St. Thomas Aquinas, Saint Bonaventure, and his great-great-grandfather. Finally, Dante reaches Heaven, where incredibly beautiful scenesbrilliant lights and colors, and flowering gardens unfold before his eyes, always accompanied by celestial music. Heaven, he learns, is not a place of boring rest, but one of joyful activity, dancing and singing, and endless movement and surprises.
A poem of true heroic fulfillment, Paradiso stands as literatures greatest hymn to the glory of God.
Peter Bondanella is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Indiana University. Julia Conaway Bondanella is Professor of Italian at Indiana University. Both have translated works from Italian and have published extensively on Italian culture and art.More editions of The Paradiso:
The Path to the Spiders' Nestsby Italo Calvino, Archibald Colquhoun, M. L. McLaughlinISBN 0060956585 (0-06-095658-5)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Pinocchio: Library Editionby Carlo Collodi, E. Harden, Gioia FiammenghiISBN 014036708X (0-14-036708-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pinocchio: Library Edition'Book summary:Geppetto's new puppet can not only dance and turn somersaults, but also talks and misbehaves--and longs to be a real boy. [via]
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- Pinocchio: Library Edition: ISBN 0142437069 (0-14-243706-9)
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Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Pinocchio: Library Edition: ISBN 0140382623 (0-14-038262-3)
Softcover, Penguin USA - Pinocchio: Library Edition: ISBN 014036708X (0-14-036708-X)
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- Pinocchio: Library Edition: ISBN 0142437069 (0-14-243706-9)
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Por Que Leer Los Clasicos?by Italo CalvinoISBN 8472238679 (84-7223-867-9)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Por Que Leer Los Clasicos?'Book summary:Los clasicos son, para Italo Calvino (1923-1985), aquellos libros que nunca terminan de decir lo que tienen que decir, textos que «cuanto mas cree uno conocerlos de oidas, tanto mas nuevos, inesperados, ineditos resultan al leerlos de verdad». Y ese es el convencimiento que anima a Italo Calvino a comentar los «suyos», segun su criterio de que el clasico de cada uno «es aquel que no puede serte indiferente y que te sirve para definirte a ti mismo en relacion y quizas en contraste con el». Asi, mezclados en el tiempo y en la historia de la literatura universal, el lector descubre las lecturas de Italo Calvino. El resultado de todo ello es una obra que se ha convertido, a su vez, en un clasico. [via]
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The Princeby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 142181174X (1-4218-1174-X)
Softcover, 1st World Library
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prince'Book summary:"The Prince" has long been both praised and reviled for its message of moral relativism, and political expediency. Although a large part is devoted to the mechanics of gaining and staying in power, Machiavelli's end purpose is to maintain a just and stable government. He is not ambiguous in stating his belief that committing a small cruelty to avert a larger is not only justifiable, but required of a just ruler. Machiavelli gives a vivid portrayal of his world in the chaos and tumult of early 16th century Florence, Italy and Europe. He uses both his contemporary political situation, and that of the classical period to illustrate his precepts of statecraft. [via]
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Hardcover, Alan Rodgers Books - The Prince: ISBN 0872203166 (0-87220-316-6)
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Softcover, Prometheus Books - The Prince: ISBN 0881334448 (0-88133-444-8)
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Prince And Other Writingsby Niccolo Machiavelli, Wayne A. RebhornISBN 1593080603 (1-59308-060-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prince And Other Writings'Book summary:[via]The Prince and Other Writings, by Niccolo Machiavelli, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars Biographies of the authors Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events Footnotes and endnotes Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work Comments by other famous authors Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations Bibliographies for further reading Indices & Glossaries, when appropriateAll editions are beautifully designed and are printed to superior specifications; some include illustrations of historical interest. Barnes & Noble Classics pulls together a constellation of influencesbiographical, historical, and literaryto enrich each reader's understanding of these enduring works.One of historys greatest political philosophers, Niccolò Machiavelli is notorious for his treatise The Prince, which has become a cornerstone of modern political theory. Written in 1513 and published in 1532, after Machivellis death, The Prince immediately provoked controversy that has continued unabated to this day.
Defining human nature as inherently selfish, Machiavelli proposes that social conflict and violence are natural phenomena that help determine the ablest, most versatile form of government. Asserting that idealism has no place in the political arena, The Prince primarily addresses a monarchs difficulties in retaining authority. Considered the first expression of political realism, it has often been accused of advocating a political philosophy in which the end justifies the means. Indeed the emphasis in The Prince on practical success, at the expense even of traditional moral values, earned Machiavelli a reputation for ruthlessness, deception, and cruelty. Many scholars contend, however, that the authors pragmatic views of ethics and politics reflected the realities of his time, as exemplified by the Medici family of Florence.
Debates about Machiavellis theories are as lively today as they were 450 years ago, but no one questions the importance of his fundamental contribution to Western political thought. This newly translated edition also includes Machiavellis Letter to Francesco Vettori, The Life of Castruccio Castracani, and excerpts from the Discourses on Livy.
Wayne A. Rebhorn, Celanese Centennial Professor of English at the University of Texas, has authored numerous studies of Renaissance European literature. His Foxes and Lions: Machiavellis Confidence Men won the Howard R. Marraro Prize of the Modern Language Association of America in 1990.More editions of Prince And Other Writings:
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Prince Maachiavelliby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0882950533 (0-88295-053-3)
Softcover, Harlan Davidson
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Purgatorioby Dante Alighieri, Gustave Dore, Peter Bondanella, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Julia Conaway BondanellaISBN 1593083718 (1-59308-371-8)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Purgatorio'Book summary:Purgatorio, by Dante Alighieri, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:[via]- New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and scholars
- Biographies of the authors
- Chronologies of contemporary historical, biographical, and cultural events
- Footnotes and endnotes
- Selective discussions of imitations, parodies, poems, books, plays, paintings, operas, statuary, and films inspired by the work
- Comments by other famous authors
- Study questions to challenge the reader's viewpoints and expectations
- Bibliographies for further reading
- Indices & Glossaries, when appropriate
Perhaps the greatest single poem ever written, The Divine Comedy presents Dante Alighieris all-encompassing vision of the three realms of Christian afterlife. Joyfully anticipating heaven, Purgatorio continues the poets journey from the darkness of Hell to the divine light of Paradise.
Beginning with Dantes liberation from the Inferno, part two of The Divine Comedy follows the poet as he and the Roman poet Virgil struggle up the steep terraces of the earthly island-mountain called Purgatory, miraculously created as a result of Lucifers storied fall. As he travels through the first seven levelseach representing one of the seven deadly sinsDante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release into Paradise. Each echelon teaches a new lesson about human healing and growth, on earth as well as in the spiritual world. As he journeys upward, level by level, Dante gradually changes into a wiser, braver, and better man. Only when he has learned from each of these stations will he finally be allowed to ascend to the gateway to Heaven: the Garden of Eden.
Perhaps Dantes most brilliant, imaginative creation, Purgatorio is an enthralling allegory of sin, redemption, and ultimate enlightenment.Julia Conaway Bondanella is Professor of Italian at Indiana University. She has served as President of the National Collegiate Honors Council and as Assistant Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her publications include a book on Petrarch, The Cassell Dictionary of Italian Literature, and translations of Italian classics by Benvenuto Cellini, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Giorgio Vasari.
Peter Bondanella is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Indiana University and has been President of the American Association for Italian Studies. His publications include a number of translations of Italian classics, books on Italian Renaissance literature, and studies of Italian cinema. His latest book is Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, a history of how Italian Americans have been depicted in Hollywood.More editions of Purgatorio:
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The Purgatorioby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Dante Alighieri, Julia Conaway BondanellaISBN 1593082193 (1-59308-219-3)
Softcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Beginning with Dantes liberation from the Inferno, part two of The Divine Comedy follows the poet as he and the Roman poet Virgil struggle up the steep terraces of the earthly island-mountain called Purgatory, miraculously created as a result of Lucifers storied fall. As he travels through the first seven levelseach representing one of the seven deadly sinsDante observes the sinners who are waiting for their release into Paradise. Each echelon teaches a new lesson about human healing and growth, on earth as well as in the spiritual world. As he journeys upward, level by level, Dante gradually changes into a wiser, braver, and better man. Only when he has learned from each of these stations will he finally be allowed to ascend to the gateway to Heaven: the Garden of Eden.
Perhaps Dantes most brilliant, imaginative creation, Purgatorio is an enthralling allegory of sin, redemption, and ultimate enlightenment.Julia Conaway Bondanella is Professor of Italian at Indiana University. She has served as President of the National Collegiate Honors Council and as Assistant Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her publications include a book on Petrarch, The Cassell Dictionary of Italian Literature, and translations of Italian classics by Benvenuto Cellini, Niccolò Machiavelli, and Giorgio Vasari.
Peter Bondanella is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian at Indiana University and has been President of the American Association for Italian Studies. His publications include a number of translations of Italian classics, books on Italian Renaissance literature, and studies of Italian cinema. His latest book is Hollywood Italians: Dagos, Palookas, Romeos, Wise Guys, and Sopranos, a history of how Italian Americans have been depicted in Hollywood.More editions of The Purgatorio:
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Qby Shaun Whiteside, Luther BlissettISBN 0151010633 (0-15-101063-3)
Hardcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Q'Book summary:Something of a publishing sensation elsewhere in Europe, Q is a convoluted historical thriller by a consortium of young pseudonymous authors, who, it has to be said, are a little too in love with their own cleverness. Q is the working name of a papal spy trying to keep a lid on the Reformation, particularly on the Anabaptist radicalism which is its form most dangerous to the social order, and for decades he watches, and occasionally gets in close and betrays. The man sometimes known as Gert is his opposite--all the more so because he hardly knows of Q's existence--the idealist who is caught up in the same events: Luther's sermons, the rise and fall of Thomas Muntzer, the disastrous People's Republic of Munster.
Parallels are being struck all over the place with radicalism in the 20th century--part of what makes Gert a memorable voice is a combination of zeal, pragmatism and survival instinct that keeps him one step ahead of the Inquisitors for 30 years and enables him to, for example, do serious damage to the Holy Roman Emperor's favourite bankers. In the end, Gert and Q are left with more in common than the past they share--the rules are changing and the board is being cleared, and there is time for one last crucial intervention... This is ingeniously plotted, and full of vividly realised scenes of 16th century life; if it has a fault, it is that we live through every day of three tumultuous decades, every sermon and theological treatise, in exhausting detail. --Roz Kaveney [via]
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Senza Sangueby Alessandro BariccoISBN 8817001783 (88-17-00178-3)
Softcover, Rizzoli
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Silent Duchessby Darcia MariainiISBN 155861222X (1-55861-222-X)
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Silent Duchessby Dick Kitto, Elspeth Spottiswood, Darcia MariainiISBN 1558611940 (1-55861-194-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Silent Duchess'Book summary:Dacia Maraini is something of a national treasure in Italy. The author of more than 50 books, a director of stage and screen, and an outspoken feminist, Maraini has never been afraid of controversy. The Silent Duchess won prestigious awards in Italy upon its publication there in 1990, and has since been translated into 14 languages. It tells the story of Marianna Ucria, an 18th-century noblewoman who is both deaf and mute following a mysterious childhood trauma. Though outwardly Marianna's life follows the same trajectory as most women's of her class and time--an arranged marriage and endless childbearing--her inner life is quite unique. Within the silent world she occupies, Marianna pursues a vigorous life of the mind; in fact, silence becomes a weapon she wields to defend her deepest, truest self against society's suppression of women's creativity and will. From the first, horrifying images of a child's hanging, through Marianna's forced marriage to her elderly uncle, and finally to her recollection of the trauma that scarred her, The Silent Duchess takes the reader on a remarkable journey through the mores and manners of 18th-century Sicily and into the mind of its enigmatic, courageous heroine. [via]
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Sostiene Pereiraby Antonio TabucchiISBN 8433966324 (84-339-6632-4)
Softcover, Ld Books Inc
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Vino E Paneby Ignazio SiloneISBN 0884362698 (0-88436-269-8)
Softcover, Emc Pub
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A Violent Lifeby Pier Paolo PasoliniISBN 0856355917 (0-85635-591-7)
Hardcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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Voices from the Plainsby Gianni Celati, Robert LumleyISBN 1852421436 (1-85242-143-6)
Softcover, McClelland & Stewart
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Without Bloodby Alessandro Baricco, Ann GoldsteinISBN 1400041457 (1-4000-4145-7)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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54by Ming WuISBN 8806162039 (88-06-16203-9)
Hardcover, Einaudi
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Le Cosmicomicheby Italo CalvinoISBN 8804376295 (88-04-37629-5)
Hardcover, A. Mondadori
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L'elenco Telefonico Di Atlantideby Tullio AvoledoISBN 885180012X (88-518-0012-X)
Hardcover, Sironi
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Grande Madre Rossaby Giuseppe GennaISBN 8804530022 (88-04-53002-2)
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Il Principeby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 8817120375 (88-17-12037-5)
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Margherita Dolce Vitaby Stefano BenniISBN 880701677X (88-07-01677-X)
Hardcover, Feltrinelli
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L'odore Del Sangue: Romanzoby Goffredo Parise, Cesare Garboli, Giacomo MagriniISBN 8817660760 (88-17-66076-0)
Hardcover, Rizzoli
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Se Non Ora, Quandoby Primo LeviISBN 8806054015 (88-06-05401-5)
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Senza Sangueby Alessandro BariccoISBN 881787017X (88-17-87017-X)
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Sostiene Pereiraby Antonio TabucchiISBN 8807014610 (88-07-01461-0)
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Una Vita Violentaby Pier Paolo PasoliniISBN 8811667933 (88-11-66793-3)
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Alexandrosby Valerio Massimo ManfrediISBN 8425333490 (84-253-3349-0)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Alexandros El Hijo Del Suenoby Valerio Massimo ManfrediISBN 8439704852 (84-397-0485-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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Alexandros Iby Valerio M. ManfrediISBN 8497594401 (84-9759-440-1)
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Alexandros IIIby Valerio M. ManfrediISBN 8497594398 (84-9759-439-8)
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La Divina Comedia / The Divine Comedyby Dante AlighieriISBN 9583000760 (958-30-0076-0)
Softcover, Panamericana Pub Llc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Divina Comedia / The Divine Comedy'Book summary:La figura de Dante sobresale indiscutiblemente por encima de sus contemporaneos. A caballo entre dos siglos, la edad vieja, duecuento, y la nueva, trecento, se funden en su obra. De la primera recoge la sutil tematica -stilnovista-, irradiando su propia erudicion en todos los campos del saber; el trecento manifiesta una concepcion mas moderna del gusto, un interes mas discreto para los clasicos y una vision mas amplia de la vida moral. La comoposicion de la Divina Comedia ocupo los ultimos quince anos de la vida de Dante, convirtiendose en un empeño de caracter cientifico, filosofico, teologico e historico, a la vez que en una experiencia ascetica que acomete el alma del poeta. [via]
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De Principatibus: Le Princeby Niccolo Machiavelli, Giorgio Inglese, Jean-Louis Fournel, Jean-Claude ZancariniISBN 2130505309 (2-13-050530-9)
Hardcover, Presses universitaires de France
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La réduction de Machiavel au machiavélisme est cependant trop simpliste. On peut même lire Le Prince comme une des premières oeuvres de science politique, l'auteur ne cherchant qu'à décrire les mécanismes du pouvoir, à la manière du physicien qui détermine les lois de la gravitation. Rousseau ou encore Spinoza ont même pensé que Le Prince s'adressait en vérité au peuple pour l'avertir des stratégies utilisées par les tyrans.
Oeuvre géniale dans son ambiguïté, Le Prince peut donc être lu soit comme un traité de gouvernement à l'usage du despote, soit comme un ouvrage de science, voire comme une critique déguisée du despotisme. --Paul Klein [via]
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La Divine Comedieby Dante Alighieri, Didier Marc GarinISBN 2729114599 (2-7291-1459-9)
Hardcover, Editions de La Difference
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Divine Comedie'Book summary:Oeuvre fondatrice de la poésie italienne, La Divine Comédie fut composée par Dante entre 1306 et 1321. Épopée métaphysique, récit d'une véritable vision dont l'auteur aurait fait l'expérience ? Le voici perdu en une "forêt obscure", s'éveillant comme hébété en un monde parallèle où Virgile - son maître spirituel - apparaît bientôt et lui tend une main secourable. Le voyage, ce parcours initiatique menant à la clarté divine, s'ouvre sur la traversée des neuf cercles de l'Enfer, sondant à la fois la symbolique chrétienne et les recoins les plus funestes de l'âme humaine. S'ensuit un vibrant périple au Purgatoire, au terme duquel Dante rencontrera Béatrice (la béatitude...), cette figure rayonnante et céleste qu'il poursuivra avec passion jusqu'aux portes du Paradis. Étonnante de modernité et affranchie des contraintes de la doctrine, La Divine Comédie est également remarquable par sa structure qui constitue un véritable monument de la poésie classique. Une oeuvre dont bien des poètes ont envié la perfection, à commencer par Charles Baudelaire. --Lenaïc Gravis et Jocelyn Blériot [via]
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La Divine Comedie, Le Purgatoireby Jacqueline Risset, Dante AlighieriISBN 2080712179 (2-08-071217-9)
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Decameroneby Giovanni BoccaccioISBN 9022308006 (90-223-0800-6)
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