Auteur: Peter Bondanella

A major new interpretation of the impact of ancient Rome on our culture, this study charts the effects of two diametrically opposed views of Roman antiquity: the virtuous republic of self-less citize …

‘A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought…but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.’When Machiavelli’s brief treat …

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari’s collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Rena …

‘A prince must not have any other object nor any other thought…but war, its institutions, and its discipline; because that is the only art befitting one who commands.’When Machiavelli’s brief treat …

Discourses on Livy (1531) is as essential to an understanding of Machiavelli as his famous treatise, The Prince. Equally controversial, it reveals his fundamental preference for a republican state. C …

Packed with facts, attributions, and entertaining anecdotes about his contemporaries, Vasari’s collection of biographical accounts also presents a highly influential theory of the development of Rena …

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This major artistic biography of Federico Fellini shows how his exuberant imagination has been shaped by popular culture, literature, and his encounter with the ideas of C. G. Jung, especially Jungia …

The Inferno, by Dante Alighieri , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics  series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholars …

Purgatorio, by Dante Alighieri , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics  series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholars …

The Paradiso, by Dante Alighieri , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholar …

THE ITALIAN CINEMA BOOK is an essential guide to the most important historical, aesthetic and cultural aspects of Italian cinema, from 1895 to the present day. With contributions from 39 leading inte …

THE ITALIAN CINEMA BOOK is an essential guide to the most important historical, aesthetic and cultural aspects of Italian cinema, from 1895 to the present day. With contributions from 39 leading inte …