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Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love)

10 best books like Orlando Innamorato (Orlando in Love) (Matteo Maria Boiardo): Sorelle Materassi, Artemisia, Orlando Furioso, Mandragola, Jerusalem Delivered, Hymns and Fragments, The Golden Legend, Coplas a la muerte de su padre, Vis and Ramin, Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics

Sorelle Materassi
AuthorAldo Palazzeschi
ISBN8804331208
Composto nel 1934, “Sorelle Materassi” è il romanzo più noto di Aldo Palazzeschi. Protagoniste sono Carolina e Teresa Materassi, due anziane sorelle ricamatrici, simili “alle agavi indistruttibili e incapaci di crescere, decrepite e bambine”. Nella grigia esistenza delle due zitelle,...
Artemisia
AuthorAnna Banti
ISBN0803262132
Artemisia Gentileschi, born in 1598, the daughter of an esteemed painter, taught art in Naples and painted the great women of Roman and biblical history. She could neither read nor write, and she was the reviled victim in a public rape trial, rejected by her father, and later abandoned by her husband....
Orlando Furioso
AuthorLudovico Ariosto
ISBN0192836773
Perhaps it speaks more to the age I live in than that of the author, but I'm always surprised to find a reasonable, rational mind on the other end of the pen. Though Ariosto's unusual work is full of prejudice and idealism, it is constantly shifting, so that now one side seems right, and now the other.

His...
Mandragola
AuthorNiccolò Machiavelli
ISBN0917974573
Mandragola = The Mandrake, Niccolò Machiavelli
The Mandrake is a satirical play by Italian Renaissance philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli. Although the five-act comedy was published in 1524 and first performed in the carnival season of 1526, Machiavelli likely wrote The Mandrake in 1518 as...
Jerusalem Delivered
AuthorTorquato Tasso
ISBN0801863236
Arguably the greatest Italian poet after Dante, Torquato Tasso was born in Sorrento in 1544 and died in Rome in 1595, having served as the court poet in Ferrara, been confined for years in a madhouse after attacking a servant with a knife, and composed one of the great works of Renaissance literature....
Hymns and Fragments
AuthorFriedrich Hölderlin
ISBN0691014124
Holderlin was one among a group of German Romantic poets that were on the periphery of German Idealism. Along with Novalis and Schiller, his work utilizes Idealist concepts in an overtly aesthetic framework. Like many German Romantic poets and philosophers, he is often ignored by the sottish tendency...
The Golden Legend
AuthorJacobus de Voragine
ISBN0140446486
One of the central texts of the Middle Ages, The Golden Legend deeply influenced the imagery of poetry, painting and stained glass with its fascinating descriptions of saints' lives and religious festivals. By creating a single-volume sourcebook of core Christian stories, Jacobus de Voragine (c....
Coplas a la muerte de su padre
AuthorJorge Manrique
ISBN9505810059



I imagine many of my friends in GR would have never heard of Jorge Manrique de Figueroa. He was foremost a military man but I am writing about him because he was also a poet. Manrique was born around 1440 in the Iberian Peninsula (either in Castile or in northern Andalusia) and came from a...
Vis and Ramin
AuthorFakhraddin Gorgani
ISBN1933823178
‎دوستان گرانقدر، این شاعر توانا، بسیار زیبا و دلنشین سروده است... هربار که این هنرمندیِ زنده یاد <فخرالدین> گرامی را میخوانم، باز هم شوق و اشتیاقِ بارِ...
Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics
AuthorFrancesco Petrarca
ISBN0674663489
For teachers and students of Petrarch, Durling's edition of the poems has become the standard one. Readers have praised the translation as both graceful and accurate, conveying a real understanding of what this difficult poet is saying. The literalness of the prose translation makes this beautiful...
The Adventures of Amir Hamza
AuthorGhalib Lakhnavi
ISBN0679643540
In the tradition of such beloved classics as "The Thousand and One Nights" and the Persian" Shahnameh," here is the first unabridged English translation of a major Indo-Persian epic, "The Adventures of Amir Hamza" (Dastan-e Amir Hamza)—a panoramic tale of magic and passion, and a classic hero's...
Chronicles
AuthorJean Froissart
ISBN0140442006
The Chronicles of Froissart (1337-1410) are one of the greatest contemporary records of fourteenth-century England and France. Depicting the great age of Anglo-French rivalry from the deposition of Edward II to the downfall of Richard II, Froissart powerfully portrays the deeds of knights in battle...
The Fabliaux
AuthorNathaniel E. Dubin
ISBN0871403579
Composed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, these virtually unknown erotic and satiric poems lie at the root of the Western comic tradition. Passed down by the anticlerical middle classes of medieval France, The Fabliaux depicts priapic priests, randy wives, and their cuckolded husbands...
Tutte le novelle
AuthorGiovanni Verga
ISBN8879836072
Le novelle segnano tutto l'arco della complessa evoluzione artistica e civiledi Verga. Ora come anticipazione della svolta veristica (Nedda), ora comeaccompagnamento e pendant dei romanzi della compiuta maturità, oppure comeespressione e rielaborazione del tormentato periodo di vita milanese,...
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream
AuthorFrancesco Colonna
ISBN0500285497
One of the most famous books in the world, the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, read by every Renaissance intellectual and referred to in studies of art and culture ever since, was first published in English by Thames & Hudson in 1999.
It is a strange, pagan, pedantic, erotic, allegorical, mythological...
Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels
AuthorGiorgio Manganelli
ISBN0929701720
Winner of ForeWord Magazine's Book-of-the-Year 2005 Silver Medallion for Translation Note: Three stories appeared in the March 2005 issue of Harpers magazine, and twelve stories in the spring 2005 "Zukofsky" issue of Chicago Review.

Italo Calvino once remarked that in Giorgio Manganelli,...
The Old Arcadia
AuthorPhilip Sidney
Okay, I'm not going to sit here and pretend I read all of this. I'm not even going to claim that heretofore allegedly there may or may not have been a point the duration of which is uncertain that a person, namely myself, might have concurrently been disposed to a proportionate reading of the aforementioned...
The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
AuthorGiordano Bruno
ISBN0803261047
"Among the heretics of every age, we find men who are filled with the highest kind of religious feeling," Albert Einstein said. He might have been referring to the sixteenth-century Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, who was tried by two Inquisitions and burned at the stake in Rome in 1600.Bruno's...
The Poems of François Villon
AuthorFrançois Villon
ISBN0874512360
Can't believe I haven't rated this one yet... Villon is Rimbaud and Baudelaire and Poe and Genet a half-millennium before those beloved brethren in sin. Villon is the bloodied words of God writ on the Satanic chasuble. Villon is the banished poet-murderer-thief haunting the interstices of a dead-lily...
Orphic Songs
AuthorDino Campana
ISBN0932440177
due anni prima la critica li ha accolti con una sostanziale indifferenza, ma lei li intercetta e ne rimane affascinata. è il 1916, e quel capolavoro dei canti orfici non se li fila nessuno. sibilla aleramo invece ne viene rapita. scrive a dino campana e inizia con lui una fitta corrispondenza epistolare....
Soledades
AuthorLuis de Góngora y Argote
ISBN8437601991
Las Soledades es un poema de Luis de Góngora, compuesto en 1613 en silvas de versos endecasílabos y heptasílabos.

El poema nació como un proyecto dividido en cuatro partes que iban a llamarse «Soledad de los campos», «Soledad de las riberas», «Soledad de las selvas» y «Soledad...
Vita d'un uomo - Tutte le poesie
AuthorGiuseppe Ungaretti
ISBN8804360216
Voluto dallo stesso autore nel 1969, il volume raccoglie sotto il significativo titolo di Vita d'un uomo l'intera produzione lirica di Ungaretti, da L'Allegria fino al Taccuino del Vecchio, oltre ad alcuni componimenti sparsi mai usciti in raccolta e alle fondamentali traduzioni di classici, da...
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