The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (Penguin Classics) 9781101491492, 1101491493

The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy [Kindle Edition] 0486121518, 9780486121512

For nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt, the Italian Renaissance was nothing less than the beginning of

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The Spy (Penguin Classics) 9780140436280, 9781101221655, 0140436286

A historical adventure reminiscent of Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley romances, Cooper’s novel centers on Harvey Birch, a co

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The Portable Emerson (Penguin Classics) 9780698155688, 2014017163

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Building the Canon through the Classics: Imitation and Variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1580) 9789004398030, 9004398031

Building the Canon through the Classics. Imitation and Variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1580) explores the multiple

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Meditations (Penguin Classics) 9780141910819

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The Age of Criticism: The Late Renaissance in Italy 9781501743443

Sperone Speroni, Ludovico Castelvetro, Francesco Patrizi, Giacopo Mazzoni, Torquato Tasso, and Paolo Beni emerge as lite

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D. H. Lawrence and Italy: Sketches from Etruscan Places, Sea and Sardinia, Twilight in Italy (Penguin Classics) 9780141441559, 0141441550

In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty.

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The Orwell Diaries [Penguin Modern Classics ed.]

George Orwell was an inveterate keeper of diaries. The Orwell Diaries presents eleven of them, covering the period 1931-

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The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy 9781442681071

If the conventional view is that Italian Renaissance society generally grew more aristocratic in the later period, this

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The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy 9780674271845

Weddings in 15th-century Italian courts were grand, sumptuous affairs, often requiring guests to listen to lengthy orati

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