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Inferno of Dante Bilingual Edition
by Dante/pinsky  Publisher Comments This widely praised version of Dante's masterpiece, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award of the Academy of American Poets, is more idiomatic and approachable than its many predecessors. Former U.S...
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The Divine Comedy of Inferno (Bantam Classics)
by Dante And Mandelbaum Publisher Comments In this superb translation with an introduction and commentary by Allen Mandelbaum, all of Dante's vivid images--the earthly, sublime, intellectual, demonic, ecstatic--are rendered with marvelous clarity to read like the words of a poet born in our own...
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri Publisher Comments (Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) "The Divine Comedy" begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense recreation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which...
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The Prince
by Machiavelli And Mansfiel Publisher Comments The most famous book on politics ever written, The Prince remains as lively and shocking today as when it was written almost five hundred years ago. Initially denounced as a collection of sinister maxims and a recommendation of tyranny, it has more...
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Inferno #1: The Divine Comedy: Volume 1: Hell
by Dante And Sayers Publisher Comments This story begins in a shadowed forest on Good Friday in the year of our Lord 1300. It proceeds on a journey that, in its intense re-creation of the depths and the heights of human experience, has become the key with which Western civilization has sought...
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The Decameron
by Boccaccio And Musa Publisher Comments Set against the background of the Black Death of 1348, the hundred linked tales in Boccaccio's masterpiece are peopled by nobles, knights, nuns, doctors, lawyers, students, artists, peasants, pilgrims, servants, spendthrifts, thieves, gamblers, police...
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The Decameron: A New Translation: 21 Novelle, Contemporary Reactions, Modern Criticism (Norton Critical Edition)
by Boccaccio And Musa Publisher Comments An entertaining series of 100 stories told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women seeking to escape the plague. Vivid portraits of people from all stations in life. An Oxford University Press World Classic....
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The Book of the Courtier
by Castiglione And Opdycke Publisher Comments An insider's view of court life and culture during the Renaissance, here is the handiwork of a 16th-century diplomat who was called upon to resolve the differences in a war of etiquette among the Italian nobility. The ultimate resource on aristocratic...
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante And Sinclair Publisher Comments An invaluable source of pleasure to those English readers who wish to read this great medieval classic with true understanding, Sinclair's three-volume prose translation of Dante's Divine Comedy provides both the original Italian text and the Sinclair...
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The Prince (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Niccolo Machiavelli Publisher Comments Classic, Renaissance-era guide to acquiring and maintaining political power. Today, nearly 500 years after it was written, this calculating prescription for autocratic rule continues to be much read and studied....
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The Decameron (Oxford World's Classics)
by Giovanni Boccaccio Publisher Comments The Decameron (c.1351) is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of...
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The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: Paradise (Penguin Classics)
by Dante And Sayers Publisher Comments Dante (1265-1321) is the greatest of Italian poets and his DIVINE COMEDY is the finest of all Christian allegories. To the consternation of his more academic admirers, who believed Latin to be the only proper language for dignified verse, Dante wrote his...
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The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri and John Ciardi Publisher Comments Dante Alighieri's poetic masterpiece, The Divine Comedy, is a moving human drama, an unforgettable visionary journey through the infinite torment of Hell, up the arduous slopes of Purgatory, and on to the glorious realm of Paradise-the sphere of...
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The Prince (Penguin Classics)
by Machiavelli And Bull Publisher Comments Rejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office in the turbulent Florentine republic to write his celebrated treatise on statecraft. While Machiavelli was only one of the many Florentine "prophets...
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The Prince (Modern Library Classics)
by Niccolo Machiavelli Publisher Comments The first modern treatise of political philosophy, The Prince remains one of the world’s most influential and widely read books. Machiavelli, whose name has become synonymous with expedient exercises of will, reveals nothing less than the secrets...
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Divine Comedy, Volume III : Paradise (86 Edition)
by Dante Alighieri Synopsis This rendering of "Paradise" is distinguised by the same flexible iambic verse, the same understatement, and the same clarity that characterize Dante's own complex style. The notes to each canto make the diverse elements of Dante's vision accessible and...
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Dante's Purgatorio
by Sandow Birk Publisher Comments Following the acclaim for their innovative edition of Dante's Inferno, Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders guide us to the next level of the afterlife in Dante's Purgatorio. The second book of Dante Alighieri's classic poem The Divine Comedy, this version of...
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Orlando Furioso (74 Edition)
by Lidovico Ariosto Publisher Comments The only unabridged prose translation of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso--a witty parody of the chivalric legends of Charlemagne and the Saracen invasion of France--this version faithfully recaptures the entire narrative and the subtle meanings behind it....
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Introducing Machiavelli 2ND Edition
by Patrick Curry Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 174) and index....
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The Divine Comedy
by Dante And Carlyle Publisher Comments The greatest poem of the Middle Ages, in the standard Carlyle-Okey-Wicksteed translation, with full notes....
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