The Films of Roberto Rossellini traces the career of one of the most influential Italian filmmake...

This revised and expanded edition of the only English-language dictionary of Italian literature p...

This study provides a broad-ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the It...

Examines the cinematic vision of the renowned Italian filmmaker.

This major artistic biography of Federico Fellini shows how his exuberant imagination has been sh...

This study provides a broad-ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the It...

The first comprehensive study in English of Umberto Eco's theories and fictions.

An introduction to Eco's contributions to a wide range of academic disciplines, as well as to his...

A major new interpretation of the impact of ancient Rome on our culture, this study charts the ef...

'The Films of Roberto Rossellini' traces the career of one of the most influential Italian filmma...

The first comprehensive study in English of Umberto Eco's theories and fictions.

An introduction to Eco's contributions to a wide range of academic disciplines, as well as to his...

Discourses on Livy (1531) is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treati...

Set against the background of the Black Death of 1348, Giovanni Boccaccio's undisputed masterpiec...

In the four and a half centuries since Machiavelli's death, no single and unanimously accepted in...

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari's co...

A History of Italian Cinema, 2nd edition is the much anticipated update from the author of the be...

Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71) was a goldsmith and sculptor whose autobiography is one of the most v...

'A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought...but war, its institutions, and i...