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    Tales from the Decameron

    Giovanni Boccaccio

    Includes tales as ‘Isabella and the Pot of Basil’ (famously adapted by Keats) and ‘Patient Griselda’ alongside many boisterous and daring stories featuring faithless wives, philandering priests and curious nuns.

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    The Spirit of Time

    Peter A Hainsworth

    THE NOVEL! THE SPIRIT OF TIME. There is no one reason for having written this story. In my lifetime I have collected within my memory many thoughts and facts of…

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    John Dickson Batten Illustrations for Dante’s Inferno

    Peter Hainsworth

    The forty-five illustrations for Dante’s Inferno by John Dickson Batten (1860-1932) are perhaps the greatest achievement of an undeservedly forgotten artist. They were commissioned in the 1890s by George Musgrave…

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    Silly, Scrappy, Sassy Holiday Songs-SC: Parodies of Christmas Pop Songs and Carols

    Peter Hainsworth (University of Oxford)

    I LOVE all the Holiday Pop Songs & Carols - sing them every chance I get: at people’s homes, in the car or at church….have for many decades.

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    Petrarch the Poet: An Introduction to the Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta

    Peter Hainsworth (Oxford University)

    In this critical and historical interpretation of Petrarch’s major Italian work, the collection of poems he called the ‘Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta’, Peter Hainsworth presents Petrarch as a poet of outstanding…

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    Petrarch the Poet: An Introduction to the Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta

    Peter Hainsworth (Oxford University)

    In this critical and historical interpretation of Petrarch’s major Italian work, the collection of poems he called the ‘Rerum Vulgarium Fragmenta’, Peter Hainsworth presents Petrarch as a poet of outstanding…

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    Silly, Scrappy, Sassy Holiday Songs-HC: Parodies of Christmas Pop Songs and Carols

    Peter Hainsworth (University of Oxford)

    I LOVE all the Holiday Pop Songs & Carols - sing them every chance I get: at people’s homes, in the car or at church….have for many decades.

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    The Essential Petrarch

    Petrarch

    Petrarch fashioned so many different versions of himself for posterity that it is an exacting task to establish where one might start to explore…Hainsworth’s study meets this problem through examples…

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    The Book of the Courtier

    Baldesar Castiglione

    Peter Hainsworth's sparkling, eminently readable new English translation ofThe Book of the Courtier, Baldesar Castiglione's (14781529) literary and philosophical masterpiece, captures all the nuance, stylistic flair, and humor of this…

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    The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature

    This is reference work on Italian literature contains 2,400 entries from an international team of scholars, it provides assessments of Italy’s writers, famous and not so famous, from 1200 to…

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    Mrs Rosie and the Priest

    Giovanni Boccaccio

    Contains four provocative stories from Boccaccio’s Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cross-dressing wives and very bad priests.

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    Italian Literature: A Very Short Introduction

    Peter Hainsworth (Emeritus Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford),David Robey (Emeritus Professor, University of Reading)

    In this Very Short Introduction to Italian Literature, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey examine Italian literature from the Middle Ages up to the present day, looking at themes and issues…

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    Dante: A Very Short Introduction

    Peter Hainsworth (Emeritus Fellow, Lady Margaret Hall Oxford),David Robey (Emeritus Professor, University of Reading, and Emeritus Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford)

    This Very Short Introduction examines all the major aspects of Dante’s work, emphasizing the features that have made him such an important point of reference for modern writers and their…

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