Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #94975 in Books
• Published on: 1987-11-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780452010130
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Language Notes
Text: English, Italian (translation)

Customer Reviews

Excellent Introduction to Italian Literature
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.

Competent anthology
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.