SET IN and around Catania, Sicily, on the verge of the Italian Risorgimento, Sparrow, first publi...

This volume forms a comprehensive and illustrated survey of the art and architectural history of ...

'The Pilgrims Way to St. Patrick's Purgatory' traces a route for the modern pilgrim across Irelan...

THIS TRANSLATION makes available for the first time to English-speaking readers Petrarch's earlie...

Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-75) is best known as the author of the Decameron, for which he created a...

Aldo Bernardo and his collaborators extend the translation project begun with the Familiares to t...

The adventures of Huon of Bordeaux have been perennial favorites since their first appearance in ...

Boccaccio's 'On Famous Women' ('De claris mulieribus') is a remarkable work that contains the liv...

The rugged landscape of Baronia on Sardinia sets the scene for this novel of crime, guilt and ret...

In Rome on May 20, 1347 Cola di Rienzo, a young visionary with a gift for oratory, overthrew the ...

The beautiful young Countess Fiorenza d'Arda has died dramatically at her villa near Lake Geneva....

This 'chanson de geste' records the exploits of the young knight, Aiol, as he reclaims his father...

The twelfth-century 'Chronicle of Pseudo-Turpin,' also known as the 'History of Charlemagne and R...

Massimo Bontempelli (1878-1960), poet, novelist, playwright and composer would become one of the ...

'New Italian Women' is a collection of twenty-four stories by seventeen contemporary Italian wome...

'A new translation of Pirandello's absurdist metatheatrical play 'Sei personaggi in cerca d'autor...

'New Italian Voices' is an eclectic and vibrant collection of poetry, short stories, essays, thea...

GUY DE MAUPASSANT, the master of the nineteenth-century French short story, visited Sicily in the...

This completely revised and updated edition presents texts written by medieval Christian, Muslim ...

Naples was a major center of the Italian Renaissance and capital of the most important state in t...

Luigi Pirandello, an author best know for his plays, novels and short stories, was also a life-lo...

'Modern Naples' traces the history of Naples in the 'tragic centuries' between the collapse of th...

'This volume presents an introduction to and new translations of two of Luigi Pirandello's plays,...

'This book is about landscape, particularly the designed landscape or garden, at a critical momen...

'In Old Paris' presents five descriptions of the city from 1323 to 1790. These include A Treatise...

AT SOME POINT in January or early February of 1347, Petrarch briefly visited the remote Carthusia...

On May 5, 1527 Spanish, German, and Italian troops under the banner of the Holy Roman Emperor swa...

GASPARA STAMPA (1523-54) is considered the greatest woman poet of the Italian Renaissance, and sh...

This is the first comprehensive English-language collection of sources yet to treat the city of N...

'Fierabras and Floripas' relates the tale of two Saracen siblings who join forces with Charlemagn...

Rabun M. Taylor offers the first comprehensive survey of ancient Naples in the English language, ...

Composed between 1500 and 1502, 'The Life of Henry VII' is the first 'official' Tudor account of ...

'The Lives of the Popes and Emperors' enjoyed a number of printings in the early Renaissance: Flo...

'This delicious novel is a genre all its own - Italian neorealism meets feminist noir. I can't wa...

'Aldus and His Dream Book' is a tribute to the life and work of the pioneering scholar-publisher,...

'Cosima' tells the story of an aspiring writer growing up in Nuoro, Sardinia during the last deca...

'Elye of Saint-Gilles' tells the story of Elye - the son of Count Julien of Saint-Gilles, a vassa...

THIS TRANSLATION makes available for the first time to English-speaking readers Petrarch's earlie...

Annesa, one of Grazia Deledda's most enigmatic and dramatic characters, battles with a guilt she ...

At Lepanto, on the morning of October 7, 1571, two massive fleets joined battle at the rocks of C...

This 'chanson de geste' records the exploits of the young knight, Aiol, as he reclaims his father...

The pilgrimage route to Compostela is graced with an exceptional witness from its early days: the...

This essential and widely used collection of visions of heaven and hell, the first in English, pr...

Guido Cavalcanti (c. 1250-1300) of Florence was one of the first to create a new style of poetry,...

In the mid-sixteenth century François I ruled France, and Suleyman the Magnificent sat on the thr...

This dual-language collection presents the rich flowering of women's poetry during the Italian Re...

The literary texts of the ancient Mediterranean present a fairly clear picture of an underworld a...

Coriolano Cippico (1425-93) was a Dalmatian nobleman from Trogir (Trau in modern Croatia), then p...