A Modern Reader's Guide to Dante's the Divine Comedy
 Arguably the finest intro to Dante in English For the reader tackling Dante for the very first time, this might be the best book currently available. Though targeted at first time readers, this can also be helpful for those who need to review all the ... [... more]
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The Name of the Rose: including the Author's Postscript
It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but Brother William of Baskerville's investigation is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book [... more]
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The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The ...
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 ... [... more]
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Foucault's Pendulum
"As brilliant and quirky as THE NAME OF THE ROSE, as mischievous and wide-raning....A virtuoso performance." THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE Three clever book editors, inspired by an extraordinary fable they heard years befoe, decide to have a ... [... more]
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A Venetian Affair
"Some years ago, my father came home with a carton of old letters that time and humidity had compacted into wads of barely legible paper," Andrea di Robilant tells us as he begins this spellbinding true story of love in eighteenth-century ... [... more]
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Eleven Short Stories/Undici Novelle (A Dual-Language Book)
Masterly stories include "Little Hut," "With Other Eyes," "A Voice," "Citrons from Sicily," "A Character's Tragedy," six more. English translations. [... more]
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The Adventures of Pinocchio: Story of a Puppet/Le ...
Perella's new translation and introductory essay capture the wit, irony, ambiguity, and social satire of the original nineteenth-century text, finally reclaiming Pinocchio for adult readers. Perella's translation is the first time the whole story has ... [... more]
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Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream
One of the most famous books in the world, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, read by every Renaissance intellectual and referred to in studies of art and culture ever since, was first published in English by Thames & Hudson in 1999 in a large format ... [... more]
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Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: ...
Winner of the 1997 Association of American Publishers Best New PSP Book (Literature and Language) and Winner of the 8th Annual AIA International Architecture Book Award for History The enigmatic, polyglot Hypnerotomachia Poliphili -- the inspiration for ... [... more]
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Voice of the Violin (Inspector Montalbano Mysteries)
Inspector Salvo Montalbano, with his compelling mix of humor, cynicism, and compassion, has been compared to Georges Simenon's, Dashiel Hammett's, and Raymond Chandler's legendary detectives. In this latest novel, Montalbano's gruesome discovery of a ... [... more]
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The Path to the Spiders' Nests: Revised Edition
Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a town on the Ligurian coast during World War II. He lives with his sister, a prostitute, and spends as much ... [... more]
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The Force of the Past: A Novel
What do we know about our parents -- their true ideals, beliefs, and dreams? How can we be certain? Shortly after his father's death, Gianni Orzan reaches the disturbing conclusion that his father did not love him. Aloof and dismissive, Maurizio Orzan ... [... more]
$23.95
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