Italian culture

Italian novels of peasant crisis, 1930–1950

Bonfires in the night

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This book brings together the insights of historians and critics to examine the account given in a range of novels of the effect on peasant society of...
Author/Editor: Brian Moloney

Medieval Italy, medieval and early modern women

Essays in honour of Christine Meek

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This book pays tribute to Professor Christine Meek with sixteen essays that present the latest research in the evolution of Italian society towards the Renaissance and also provide...
Author/Editor: Conor Kostick editor

Nature and art in Dante

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This volume opens with an essay in which Jennifer Petrie explores Dante’s own use of the term arte, before applying the findings of that exploration to the...
Author/Editor: Daragh O'Connell & Jennifer Petrie, editors

Language and style in Dante

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This volume opens with an essay where “style” is viewed medievally, as a near-synonym of “genre”: Zygmunt Barański argues that fully to appreciate the presence of Horace in...
Author/Editor: John C. Barnes & Michaelangelo Zaccarello editors

Dante and the human body

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The essays in this volume explore Dante’s interest in the human body from various intellectual standpoints, the contributors being a mixture of historians, literary scholars and theologians. See...
Author/Editor: John C. Barnes & Jennifer Petrie, editors