Dante's «Convivio»

Dante's unfinished work, the Convivio, his first book written in exile, is often overlooked. This volume, instead of promoting the idea that Dante's career evolved continuously from the youthful Vita...

De Rerum Natura

Titus Lucretius Carus (ca. 99-55 B.C.) is known primarily as the Roman author of the long didactic poem De Rerum Natura ( On the Nature of Things ). In it, he set out to explicate the universe,...

The Poetry of Allusion

Searching for Sappho – The Lost Songs and World of the First Woman Poet

The daughter of an aristocratic family, a wife, a devoted mother and a lover of women, Sappho was one of the greatest writers of her own or any age. Although most people have heard of Sappho, the stor...

Zehn Bücher über Architektur

Vitruvs ›Zehn Bücher über Architektur‹ zählen bis heute zu den klassischen Texten des Altertums. Die Schrift entstand etwa zwischen 33 v. Chr. und 22 v. Chr. Der Autor widmete sie Kaiser Augustus, in...

Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizens

Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship finds in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic disposition necessary for meeting the fundamental challenge of ordinary citizenship. Tha...

Representing Rape in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

In thirteen studies of representations of rape in Medieval and Early Modern literature by such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare and Spenser, this volume argues that some form of sexual violence against...

The Mind of Dante

Originally published in 1965, the seven essays that are collected in this volume reproduce, with some slight differences in detail, the text of the lectures that were delivered at Cambridge during the...

English and Italian Literature From Dante to Shakespeare

This is the first comprehensive critical comparison of English and Italian literature from the three centuries from Dante to Shakespeare. It begins by examining Chaucer's relationship with Dante, Petr...