The Portable Dante by Dante Alighieri
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Orlando Furioso
Ludovico Ariosto
Translated with an Introduction by Barbara Reynolds
A dazzling kaleidoscope of adventures, ogres, monsters, barbaric splendor, and romance, this epic poem stands as one of the greatest works of the Italian Renaissance.
Part I: ISBN 0-14-044311-8
Part II: ISBN 0-14-044310-X
The Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam
Read as a social document of medieval times, as an earthly counterpart of Dante’s Divine Comedy, or even as an early manifestation of the dawning spirit of the Renaissance, The Decameron is a masterpiece of imaginative narrative whose background is the Florentine plague of 1348.
ISBN 0-14-044930-2
The Travels Marco Polo Translated with an Introduction by Ronald Latham
Despite piracy, shipwreck, brigandage, and wild beasts, Polo moved in a world of highly organized commerce. This chronicle of his travels through Asia, whether read as fact or fiction, is alive with adventures, geographical information, and descriptions of natural phenomena.
ISBN 0-14-044057-7
The Story of My Life
Giovanni Giacomo Casanova
Translated by Stephen Sartarelli and Sophie Hawkins
Edited with an Introduction by Gilberto Pizzamiglio
Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swashbuckler, spy, self-made gentleman, entrepreneur, and general bon vivant, Casanova lived a life richer and stranger than most fiction. The first new translation since the 1960s, this edition provides the highlights from his twelve volumes in one beautiful, unique volume
ISBN 0-14-043915-3
The Book of the Courtier
Baldesar Castiglone
Translated with an Introduction by George Bull
Discretion, decorum, nonchalance, and gracefulness are qualities of the complete and perfect Italian Renaissance courtier that are outlined in this series of imaginary conversations between the principal members of the court of Urbino in 1507.
ISBN 0-14-044192-1
Autobiography
Benvenuto Cellini
Translated with an Introduction and Notes by George Bull
With enviable powers of invective and an irrepressible sense of humor, Cellini provides an unrivaled portrait of the manners and morals of the Italy of Michelangelo and Medici.
ISBN 0-14-044718-0
The Portable Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli
Edited by Peter Bonanella and Mark Musa
This essential collection of Machiavelli’s writings brings together the complete texts of The Prince, Belfagor, and Castruccio Castracani, as wells as an abridged version of The Discour
ISBN 0-14-015092-7
The Discourses
Niccolo Machiavelli
Edited with an Introduction by Bernard Crick
with Revisions by Brian Richardson
Translated by Leslie J. Walker
Machiavelli examines the glorious republican past of Rome. In contrast
with The Prince, this unfinished work upholds the Republic as the best and most enduring style of government
ISBN0-14-044428-9
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
Revised Translation by George Bull
Introduction by Anthony Grafton
Machiavelli’s famous portrait of the prince still “retains its power to fascinate, frighten and to instruct. ” Rejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office under the turbulent Florentine republic when he wrote his celebrated treatise on statecraft. The tough realities of Machiavelli’s Italian are well preserved in the clear, unambiguous English of George Bull’s translation.
ISBN 0-14-044915-9
Letters to Father
Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633
S. M. Celeste Galilei
Translated and Annotated by Dava Sobel
Placed in a convent at the age of thirteen (where she was renamed Suor Maria Celeste), Virginia Galilei, Galileo’s eldest daughter, wrote to her father continually. The letters span a dramatic decade that included the Thirty Years’ War, the bubonic plague, and the development of Galileo’s
own universe-changing discoveries, but though they touch on these events, the letters mostly focus on the details of everyday life that connect this fascinating father and daughter. All 124 surviving letters arc here translated into English
ISBN 0-14-243715-8
Lives of the Artists
Volume 1
Giorgio Vasari
Translated and Edited with an Introduction by George Bull
Vasari offers insights into the lives and techniques of twenty artists, from Cimabue, Giotto, and Leonardo to Michelangelo and Titian.
ISBN 0-14-044500-5
Lives of the Artists
Volume 2
Translated and Edited with an Introduction by George Bull
and Notes on the Artists by Peter Murray
Vasari’s knowledge was based on his own experience as an early Renaissance painter and architect. Volume 2 explores the lives of twentyfive artists, from Perugino to Giovanni Pisano
ISBN 0-14-044460-2
New Science
Giambattista Vico
Translated by David Marsh with an Introduction by Anthony Grafton
This astonishingly ambitious attempt to provide a comprehensive science of all human society by decoding the history, mythology, and law of the ancient world marked a turning-point in humanist thinking as significant as Newton’s contemporary revolution in physics.
ISBN 0-14-043569-7
The Betrothed
Alessandro Manzoni
(I promessi sposi)
Translated with an Introduction by Bruce Penman
Manzoni chronicles the perils of two lovers caught in the turbulence of seventeenth-century Italy
ISBN 0-14-044274-X
Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories
Giovanni Verga
Translated with an Introduction by G. H. McWilliam
Giovanni Verga’s brilliant stories of love, adultery, and honor are set against the scorched landscapes of the slopes of Mount Etna and the Plain of Catalan. This edition contains the first major English translations since those of D. H. Lawrence in the 1920s
ISBN 0-14-044741-5
Epic of G1ilgamesh
Translated with an Introduction by N. K. Sandars
Fifteen centuries before Homer, this Mesopotamian cycle of poems tells of Gilgamesh, the great King, Uruk, and his long and arduous journey to the spring of youth in search of immortality
ISBN 0-14-044919-1
The Odyssey
Homer
Translated by E. V. Rieu with a Revised Translation by D. C. H. Rieu and a New Introduction by Peter Jones
Odysseus’s perilous ten-year voyage from Troy to his home in Ithaca is recounted in a revised translation that captures the swiftness, drama, and worldview of the Greek original
ISBN 0-14-044556-0
Confessions
Saint Augustine
Translated with an Introduction by R. S. Pine-Coffin
This autobiography is both an explanation of Augustine’s own conver sion to Christianity and an attempt to convince the reader that it is the one true faith
ISBN 0-14-044114-X
The Ramayana R. K. Narayan
This shortened modern prose version of the Indian epic—parts of which date from 500 B.C. —was composed by one of today’s supreme storytellers.
ISBN 0-14-018700-6
Beowulf
Anonymous
Edited with an Introduction, Notes, and Glossary by Michael Alexander
This edition presents Anglo-Saxon verse text on the left-hand page, faced by a page on which almost every word is glossed. Succinct footnotes clar ify historical and cultural matters
ISBN 0-14-043377-5
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Edited by J. A. Burrow
Dating from the latter part of the fourteenth century, this subtle and accomplished poem is roughly contemporary with The Canterbury Tales, though written in a more provincial dialect. This edition is accessible to modern readers while retaining the integrity of the original.
ISBN 0-14-042295-1
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