Test For the Pearl, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten ...

Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three ...

When the light came on again, she had vanished. Who had kissed me in the dark? As no one came forward to admit to the deed, I could only make wild guesses. ...

The ancient Greek lyric poet Simonides of Keos was the first poet in the Western tradition to take money for poetic composition. From this starting point ...

In this book, Teodolinda Barolini explores the sources of Italian literary culture in the figures of its lyric poets and its 'three crowns' Dante, Petrarch ...

Aesthetic Frontiers: The Machiavellian Tradition and the Southern Imagination by Richard Nelson A re-evaluation of the literary and historical origins ...