The essays examine how the study of facial features or expressions as indicative of character or ...

'The first volume of essays in English on one of the most renowned contemporary Italian philosoph...

The meaning these texts are intended to convey is rather monotonous; they all say, in one form or...

Like Doves Summoned by Desire

Looney's elegant, careful translation provides us with the first extensive selection of Ariosto's...

This collection of essays brings together twelve noted Italian and American scholars to provide a...

Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in Italy from the...

This new English translation of Merchant Writers includes all the texts from the original Italian...

A critical edition and translation of Ferrands' treatise of 1610 on erotic melancholy, preceded b...

Exploring the fascinating cross-cultural influences between Jews and Christians in Italy from the...

A father decides to marry his young daughter to an old man. His daughter escapes from a convent, ...

Annibal Caro wrote The Scruffy Scoundrels (Gli Straccioni) in Rome in early 1543 for his patron P...

The cultural forms often referred to as 'baroque' are the most spectacular expressions of early m...

Culture and Authority in the Baroque explores the baroque across a wide range of disciplines, fro...