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Expositions on Dante's Comedy
Giovanni BoccaccioIn the fall of 1373, the city of Florence commissioned Giovanni Boccaccio to give lectures on Dante for the general population.
Famous Women
Giovanni BoccaccioThe more than 100 women whose life stories make up this volume range from the exemplary to the notorious, from historical and mythological figures to Renaissance contemporaries of its author, the master storyteller Giovanni Boccaccio.
The Decameron
Giovanni BoccaccioThis new translation by Guido Waldman captures the exuberance and variety and tone of Boccaccio's masterpiece.
Tales from the Decameron
Giovanni BoccaccioBawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation.
Decameron
Giovanni BoccaccioBoccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds into perennial forms that inspired writers from Chaucer and Shakespeare down to our own day.
The Decameron
Giovanni BoccaccioOf his mother we would fain know more, for his wit has in it a quality, especially noticeable in the Tenth Novel of the Sixth Day of the Decameron, which marks him out as the forerunner of Rabelais, and prompts us to ask how much more his ...
Filostrato
Giovanni BoccaccioI therefore affirm it true, O most beautiful lady, that after by departing from the delightful city of Naples at the most charming season of the year and going hence to Sannio, you suddenly removed from mine eyes, more desirous of your ...
The Elegy of Lady Fiammetta
Giovanni BoccaccioA milestone in feminist literature, this marvelous European romance, narrated by a woman, is considered the first psychological novel in a modern language and a precursor of stream-of-consciousness fiction.
The Black Falcon: A Tale from the Decameron
Giovanni BoccaccioWhen the wealthy and now-widowed woman whom the impoverished Federigo has always loved invites herself to his home for dinner to make a life-or-death request of him, she learns, ironically, he has already sacrificed all he had in his love ...
The Decameron
Giovanni BoccaccioRevised for the 700th anniversary of the author's birth, this richly descriptive tale of medieval Italian life details how ten young Florentines retreat to the countryside to escape the plague-infested city and entertain themselves by ...
Boccaccio: Decameron
David WallaceHe emphasises the relationship between Decameron and the precocious vitality of Florentine culture in Boccaccio's time. He also discusses gender issues and the influence of the text particularly on Chaucer and the novel.
The Ethical Dimension of the Decameron
Marilyn MigielMarilyn Migiel returns to Giovanni Boccaccio s masterpiece, this time to focus on the dialogue about ethical choices that the Decameron creates with us and that we, as individuals and as groups, create with the Decameron. "
Dante's Tenzone with Forese Donati: The Reprehension of Vice
Fabian AlfieDante's Tenzone with Forese Donati examines the lasting impact of these sonnets on Dante's writings and Italian literary culture, notably in the work of Giovanni Boccaccio.
Masses by Giovanni Andrea Florimi, Giovanni Francesco ...
PreviewInformation kindlygiven me by StephenR. Miller from hisforthcoming dissertation, “Music fortheMass in SeventeenthCentury Rome:the stilus ecclesiasticus and thePalestrina tradition” (Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago). Giovanni Andrea ...
A Critical Rewriting of Global Political Economy: ...
V. Spike PetersonArrighi, Giovanni and BeverlyJ. Silver.1999a. Introduction. Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System ed. Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly J. Silver. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Pp. 1–36. Arrighi, Giovanni and BeverlyJ.
Joannis Harmonii Marsi Comoedia Stephanium
Giovanni ArmonioGiovanni Armonio. „Lím ,im _Achim самец; G. А'аГёо zu?
35.000 Principales Empresas Europeas
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The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini
Peter HumfreyThis Companion volume brings together commissioned essays by an international team of scholars on Giovanni Bellini, the dominant painter of Early Renaissance Venice.
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PreviewDirk SACRE GIROLAMO BOLOGNrS EPIGRAMS ON THE PAINTER GIOVANNI BELLINI (1509 AND 1516) Some ten years ago, Gianni Carlo Sciolla1 published two epigrams on the famous painter Giovanni Bellini, which he had taken from ...
Giovanni Bellini
Oskar BätschmannWith Giovanni Bellini, renowned art historian Oskar Batschmann charts the fraught trajectory of Bellini's career, highlighting the crucial works that established his far-reaching influence in the Renaissance.
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Giovanni Petrucciani... Luca, Linda, Boris, Nicola, Domenico, Annapaola, Piergiulio, Adish, Michele, Roberto, Giovanni, Clio, Silvia, Monica, Tommaso, Alessandra, Santiago, Lara, Frederic, Nicol`o, Virginia, Alessandro, Jean-Roch, Matteo, Andr ́e, Michalis, Xavier ...
Checklist of Painters from 1200-1994
PreviewOMICCIOLI, Giovanni Italian, 1901- ОМПМО see Lombardi, Giovanni Domenico OMMEGANCK, Balthasar Paul Flemish, 1755-1826 OMMEGANCK, Maria Jacoba (Maria Jacoba Myin) ... 1784-1824 O'NEILL, Latham American, 20th cent.
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