Italian Literature

Dante and Epicurus..

The first part of this study explores the extent to which Dante’s Divine Comedy contributed to Christopher Columbus’s perception of the cosmos and the eschatological meaning of his journey to what he called an ‘other world.’ The second considers how Italian writers and artists of the late Renaissan..

Desire in Dante and the Middle Ages..

This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well as a wide range of works -- primarily urban planning and design theory and history ..

Leopardi's Nymphs..

This volume contains the correspondence of Giacomo Leopardi, the Italian poet of the Romantic age. The letters document the background - the difficult circumstances, the troubled family relationships, the friendships with other writers - against which a compelling poetic voice came to maturity...