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Selection of Modern Italian Poetry in Translation
Payne pays particular attention to poets of the fifties and sixties, futurists, and female poets. She notes that the futurists, who have rarely been translated, were particularly …
Nomad Diary (Diario Nomade)
Giovanni Cecchetti's "Nomad Diary" begins with -The Great Valley-, a superb long poem which shows the course of the planet framing the course of humankind and civilization. …
A Selection of Modern Italian Poetry in Translation
Provides a bilingual collection of ninety-two poems by thirty-five Italian poets, including works of classicism and passionate decadentism, examples of crepuscularism
Speaking to My Madness: How I Searched for Myself in Schizophrenia
Giovanni Boccaccio: The Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta Sent by Her to Women in Love
"The Elegy of Madonna Fiammetta" is narrated by a woman who recounts her love affair with a young man she calls Panfilo and his betrayal of her. Medieval works depict courtly love …
The Novellino
The "Novellino" is an anonymous collection of 100 short stories and anecdotes in Italian written sometime before 1300 A.D. It is a vast and true panorama of the Middle Ages. The …
My Mother's Autobiography
Anne Hope, daughter of German immigrants and wife to an ambitious but abrasive husband, only wants what is best for her two daughters. In a world of mid-century conformity and …
The Influence of Dante on Medieval English Dream Visions
The book begins with a discussion of the influence of the "Divina" "Commedia" on "Pearl, " in terms of religious experiences and poetics. Like "Pearl, The House of Fame" borrows …