Takes us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. This book features stories... Læs mere
This book, first published in 1996, was the first new translation for forty years of Dante's Monarchy, a fascinating work of political theory by one of the world's great poets. Prue Shaw's... Læs mere
Depicting a realm of intense sensation and physical experience, this poem transforms the traditional Christian idea of Purgatory by showing how the free will of the aspiring soul could change wordly perversions into perfection.
De vulgari eloquentia is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to assert the superiority of living,... Læs mere