Author: Francesco Petrarca
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: fortune, translation, remediis, utriusque, english, commentary, modern, remedies, fair, foul, petrarch
Number of Pages: 5
Published: 1991-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0253348447
ISBN-13: 9780253348449

"... historical lore and tales of virtue, rascality and wonder from ancient and medieval times. Conrad H. Rawski... gives us a translation that is muscular, graceful and suggestive of Petrarch’s Latin style... Anyone who can get to a library that can afford this work will find a great old world filled with humor, folly, failure and glory, all suffused with an eloquent and gentle wisdom." -- New York Times Book Review"... reveals much about the life situation, the external hazards and the inner moral dilemmas of European society... The translation itself is accurate, strong and pungent."

Author: Francesco Petrarca
Publisher: Ediciones Catedra S.A.
Keywords: spanish, universales, letras, cancionero
Number of Pages: 544
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 8437608546
ISBN-13: 9788437608549

Author: Francesco Petrarca
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: unnumbered, library, renaissance, tatti, invectives
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0674030885
ISBN-13: 9780674030886

Francesco Petrarca, one of the greatest of Italian poets, was also the leading spirit in the Renaissance movement to revive ancient Roman language and literature. Petrarch’s four Invectives, written in Latin, were inspired by the eloquence of the great Roman orator Cicero. The Invectives are directed against the cultural idols of the Middle Ages—against scholastic philosophy and medicine as well as the dominance of French culture. They defend the value of literature and provide a clear statement of the values of Renaissance humanism. The new translations in this volume, commissioned for

Author: Francesco Petrarca
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: petrarca, francesco, lettere
Number of Pages: 492
Published: 2009-01-28
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0559960611
ISBN-13: 9780559960611

Authors:Mark Musa, Francesco Petrarca, Barbara Manfredi,
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Keywords: fragmenta, vulgarium, rerum, canzoniere, petrarch
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 1999-04-01
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0253213177
ISBN-13: 9780253213174

"Mark Musa, in editing and translating Petrarch’s Canzoniere, has performed a wonderful service to the English-speaking reader. Here, in one volume, are included the poet’s own selection of the best lyric verse he wrote throughout his life, accompanied by brief but useful notes... " -- Chronicles"As well as skillful and fluent verse renderings of the 366 lyrics that make up this milestone in the development of Western poetic tradition, Musa offers copious and up-to-date annotation

Authors:Lynne Warren, Francesco Bonami, Francesco Bonami,
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: koons, jeff
Number of Pages: 136
Published: 2008-07-31
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0300141947
ISBN-13: 9780300141948

In 1975, a young art student named Jeff Koons (b. 1955) moved to Chicago, where he studied at the School of the Art Institute; worked as a studio assistant to his hero, painter Ed Paschke, for $1 an hour; and socialized with many of the city’s most talented artists. This handsome book takes a fresh look at the rise and career of Jeff Koons, who is now arguably one of the world’s most famous artists.  Koons collaborated extensively on this book, which accompanies the first solo museum exhibition in the U.S. in 16 years and offers a survey of nearly thirty years of his work, beginning with

Authors:Francesco Casetti, Francesco Casetti, Thomas Kelso,
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: cinema, theories
Number of Pages: 378
Published: 1999
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0292712073
ISBN-13: 9780292712072

The study of film entered a new era after World War II, as cinema became an acceptable focus for intellectual inquiry. The many ways in which cinema has been imagined, studied, and discussed in the last fifty years are the subject of this comprehensive overview of film theory in the United States and Europe since 1945. Francesco Casetti groups his essays around principal movements in film studies. In the first part of the book, he reviews the attempts at defining the "essence" of cinema during the 1950s. Then he explores disciplinary approaches to cinema--psychological, sociological, semioti