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    The World of the Enlightenment

    Vincenzo Ferrone

    The World of the Enlightenment is a wide-ranging discussion of one of the most important cultural phenomena of the modern era.

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    Under the Jaguar Sun

    Italo Calvino

    A couple on a journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king…

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    Leon Battista Alberti

    Martin McLaughlin

    "A fresh, accessible, and rounded synthesis of the life and literary work of an important Renaissance figure"--

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    Why Read the Classics?

    Italo Calvino

    Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic, this collection provides the author’s criticism.

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    Numbers in the Dark

    Italo Calvino

    A collection of short stories covering the length of the author’s writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. It includes fables; a town where…

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    The Complete Cosmicomics

    Italo Calvino

    Includes stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures.

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    Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy: A Festschrift for John Woodhouse

    This book presents a collection of twelve essays on the interplay between individual lives and life-writing and the wider social and political history of Italy. It focuses on well-known writers…

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    Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology: Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti

    This book, a collection of essays to honour Hilary Gatti, reflects her interest in the principles of cultural freedom and independent thinking. The essays focus on literature and epistemology and…

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    Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy: A Festschrift for John Woodhouse

    This book presents a collection of twelve essays on the interplay between individual lives and life-writing and the wider social and political history of Italy. It focuses on well-known writers…

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    Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology: Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti

    This book, a collection of essays to honour Hilary Gatti, reflects her interest in the principles of cultural freedom and independent thinking. The essays focus on literature and epistemology and…

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    Britain and Italy from Romanticism to Modernism: A Festschrift for Peter Brand

    In this volume, a team of experts in various fields considers the impact of Italian politics and culture on British life from the early 19th century to the first decades…

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    Into the War

    Italo Calvino

    A collection of stories. Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, it explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as the author’s…

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    Hermit in Paris

    Italo Calvino

    Italo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer’s life shed no light on…

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    Cultural Reception, Translation and Transformation from Medieval to Modern Italy: Essays in Honour of Martin McLaughlin

    Throughout the centuries, the Italian peninsula has played an important role as a crossroads where different cultures met, transformed and continued their journeys. This volume retraces some of these crossings…

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    U.S. and World Development Agenda: 1978-79

    Martin M. McLaughlin

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    Ideology, Censorship and Translation

    This volume invites us to revisit ideology, censorship and translation by adopting a variety of perspectives. It presents case studies and theoretical analyses from different chronological periods and focuses on…

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    Ideology, Censorship and Translation

    This volume invites us to revisit ideology, censorship and translation by adopting a variety of perspectives. It presents case studies and theoretical analyses from different chronological periods and focuses on…

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    Biographical and Autobiographical Writings

    Leon Battista Alberti

    Leon Battista Alberti was among the most famous figures of the Italian Renaissance. Biographical and Autobiographical Writings includes On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Literature, The Life of St. Potitus…

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    Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures

    Tristan Kay,Martin McLaughlin,Michelangelo Zaccarello

    This book is a collection of the Paget Toynbee’s lectures, given by internationally renowned scholars such as Zygmunt Baranski, John Barnes, and Jonathan Usher. It includes key questions such as…

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    Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures

    Tristan Kay,Martin McLaughlin,Michelangelo Zaccarello

    This book is a collection of the Paget Toynbee’s lectures, given by internationally renowned scholars such as Zygmunt Baranski, John Barnes, and Jonathan Usher. It includes key questions such as…

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    The Road to San Giovanni

    Italo Calvino

    Includes five autobiographical meditations that delves into the author’s past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against…

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    Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 - Updated Edition

    Italo Calvino

    This is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Italy’s most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved…

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    Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985 - Updated Edition

    Italo Calvino

    Italy’s most important postwar novelist, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) achieved worldwide fame with such books as Cosmicomics, Invisible Cities, and If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. This book includes a…

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    The Path to the Spiders’ Nests

    Italo Calvino

    Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler’s assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the…

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    The Portable Renaissance Reader

    Presents writings by such figures as Pope Pius II, Miguel de Cervantes, Francis Bacon, John Calvin, and St. Teresa of Avila.

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    The Portable Medieval Reader

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    Presents a collection of writings that describe all aspects of Medieval society.

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    Rock and Popular Music in Ireland: Before and After U2

    Noel McLaughlin,Martin McLoone

    Accessibly written and well illustrated, this book explores Irish rock music’s relationship to the wider world of international popular music through a detailed analysis of the Ireland’s most prominent artists…

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    Rock and Popular Music in Ireland Before and After U2

    Noel McLaughlin,Martin McLoone

    Accessibly written and well illustrated, this book explores Irish rock music’s relationship to the wider world of international popular music through a detailed analysis of the Ireland’s most prominent artists…

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    Imitative Series and Clusters from Classical to Early Modern Literature

    Operating on the disciplinary borders between classics, neo-Latin texts, and early modern vernacular literatures, the case studies in this volume show the pervasiveness over a millennium and a half of…

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    Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance: The Theory and Practice of Literary Imitation in Italy from Dante to Bembo

    Martin L. McLaughlin (University Lecturer in Italian, and Student, University Lecturer in Italian, and Student, Christ Church, Oxford)

    This book offers a survey of Italian Renaissance ideas on literary imitation, the key critical concept of the period. Covering both theory and practice, and both Latin and the vernacular…

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    On Literature

    Professor of Semiotics Umberto Eco (University of Bologna)

    In this collection of essays and addresses delivered over the course of his illustrious career, Umberto Eco seeks to understand the chemistry of [his] passion for the word.

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    Soaps And Proteins

    Martin Fischer

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    Soaps And Proteins

    Martin Fischer

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    Transmissions of Memory: Echoes, Traumas, and Nostalgia in Post-World War II Italian Culture

    The volume is divided into three sections: cultural transmissions, fractured memories, and nostalgia, to individuate through cultural products-films, poetry, fiction, architectural buildings, autobiographical writing, and social media-the dynamics of memory…

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    Machiavelli’s Prince: Traditions, Text and Translations

    Robert Black (Leeds University UK),Claudia Bonsi,Mario Domenichelli,Roberto Fubini,Nicola Gardini

    One of the high-points of Italian Renaissance humanism, Machiavelli’s The Prince immediately transcended the time and culture from which it had sprung, circulating throughout Europe and paving the road to…

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