In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey examine Italian literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, looking at themes and issues which have recurred throughout its hi
In this Very Short Introduction, Peter Hainsworth and David Robey take a different approach to Dante, by examining the main themes and issues that run through all of his work, ranging from autobiograp
Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective—these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio'sDecameron in a brilliant, playful new translationIn the early summer of the year 1348, as a terrible plague r
Primarily concentrating on the traditional canon, but including a number of minor and "sometimes not even literary" figures, Hainsworth (Italian, U. of Oxford, UK) and Robey (Italian, U. of Reading, U
Biography and autobiography are flourishing in Britain and the anglophone world generally, where most of these literature scholars work, but not so in Italy. They explore the few examples during the 2
Petrarch was Italy's second most famous writer (after Dante), and indeed from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries he was much better known and more influential in English literature than Dante.
