The spirited narration of the scenes and the themes of recognition and revelation from Homer and ...
Tracing the influence and impact of Plato's Timaeus-and its major themes, creation and beauty-thr...
Professor Boitani's latest book explores the areas of the tragic and the sublime in medieval lite...
A collected volume of essays capturing the vitality of the current transcultural European dialogu...
The Genius to Improve an Invention derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British te...
A collection of essays debating what fourteenth-century Italy and its literature meant to Chaucer.
This is a wide-ranging and detailed study of English narrative verse in the thirteenth and fourte...
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which ...
In this slim, poetically powerful volume, Piero Boitani develops his earlier work in The Bible an...
Bringing together twenty-five contributors from all over Europe, this volume represents the vital...
The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which ...
(Re)discover the timeless beauty of ancient literature
Tutta la poesia, di ogni luogo e di ogni tempo, suggerisce come guardare il mondo: in maniera ind...
La 'Consolazione della Filosofia 'è l'ultima grande opera che, ormai alla fine, l'antichità affid...
Simile a un dio mi sembra quell'uomo che siede davanti a te, e da vicino ti ascolta mentre tu par...
«E ¿l sol montava ¿n sù con quelle stelle¿». Attraversando i cieli di Dante e incontrando le inte...
«Dal Timeo di Platone viene quasi tutto ciò che vale la pena ricordare». Così afferma Piero Boita...
'Non importa quanto la vita vi sia rimossa, imitata, distorta, presa in giro, esagerata. Se l'ope...
Non sappiamo di preciso come nasce la poesia, ma sin dai tempi più antichi i poeti e i pensatori ...
This is the first study devoted to the story of Troilus and Cressida as it has developed through ...
Explores the concept, and the 'imaginary world' surrounding Chaucer's 'The House of Fame'. This b...
'Le frontiere della poesia sono la meraviglia e il silenzio. La meraviglia giace alla fonte della...
The Genius to Improve an Invention derives its title from John Dryden's phrase for the British te...
The theme of the `body and soul' relationship in medieval texts and modern reworkings.
Boitani's presentation of the classics is as entertaining and unexpected as it is informative. He...
This book examines the Bible and its medieval and modern rewritings. It looks at some of the most...
Pietro Citati è stato forse il più grande lettore d'Europa della seconda metà del XX secolo. Ha p...