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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent Introduction to Italian Literature,
This review is from: The Italian Renaissance Reader (Meridian) (Paperback)
This is a very good book to introduce students to prominent Italian Renaissance authors and their works. These particular selections cover a broad range of literary works that promote readers to want to further read more from these writers. For example, one could discover an interest in Boccaccio's "The Decameron" through reading a couple of the stories and that person may then want to also read the full translation by Mark Musa. This book acquaints readers to works where they may have once had no previous familiarity, yet after discovery, people can gain a love of these influential Renaissance thinkers.
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Competent anthology,
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This review is from: The Italian Renaissance Reader (Meridian) (Paperback)
The editors have little to add, and little has been added indeed, beyond the included works.
Choices will be arbitrary in any such compilation and some could be called into question here. For the reader who wants a particularly large dose of Benevenuto Cellini and is not bothered by the lack of any of Alberti's tracts on Art or Architecture, this volume is economical and well translated. Perhaps somewhat more flexibility in selections could have been made for my tastes. The reader will certainly get a flavor for the period writings in a very economical and easily accessed format that is not easily found elsewhere.
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ITALY'S GREATEST HUMANIST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL AND LASTING LYRIC POET, Francesco Petrarca, or Petrarch, as he is known in English, was born in Arezzo, a small town in central Italy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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ITALY'S GREATEST HUMANIST AND MOST INFLUENTIAL AND LASTING LYRIC POET, Francesco Petrarca, or Petrarch, as he is known in English, was born in Arezzo, a small town in central Italy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Most Illustrious Excellency, Ser Ciappelletto, New York, Brother Cipolla, Leonardo da Vinci, Messer Federico, King of France, Messer Cesare, Messer Pietro, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Signora Emilia, Cesare Borgia, King Francis, Pope Alexander, Princeton University Press, Antonio Landi, Duke of Urbino, Leon Battista, Mark Musa, Messer Bernardo, Peter Bondanella, Signor Gasparo, Angel Gabriel, Francesco Guicciardini, Pope Julius New!
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- The Book of the Courtier (Penguin Classics) by Baldesar Castiglione on 9 pages
- Divine Comedy (Oxford World's Classics) by Dante Alighieri in Front Matter, page 21, and page 163
- The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics) by Giorgio Vasari in Front Matter, page 196, and page 255
- Lives of the Artists (Classics) by Giorgio Vasari in Front Matter, page 196, and page 255
- The Divine Comedy (The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso) by Dante Alighieri in Front Matter, page 21, and page 163
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- The Lives of the Artists (Oxford World's Classics) by Giorgio Vasari in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- My Life (Oxford World's Classics) by Benvenuto Cellini in Front Matter
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