On Amistà: Negotiating Friendship in Dante's Italy (Toronto Italian Studies) 9781487548179, 9781487548193, 9781487548209, 1487548176

Although we often think of friendship today as an indisputable value of human social life, for thinkers and writers acro

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On Amistà: Negotiating Friendship in Dante's Italy (Toronto Italian Studies)
9781487548179, 9781487548193, 9781487548209, 1487548176

Although we often think of friendship today as an indisputable value of human social life, for thinkers and writers acro

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On Amistà comprehensively examines the value of friendship in late medieval Italy.

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During the fascist years in Italy, architecture and politics enjoyed a close alliance. Benito Mussolini used architectur

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Today?s Italian-Canadians face different images than previous generations. An exploration of the reproduction of cultura

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These new essays comprise a critical analysis of present-day crime fiction and nonfiction works set in Italy (all of whi

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Toronto the Good? uniquely explores what diversity does to remake the City of Toronto as a beacon of democracy, racial i

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The Ninth Day of Giovanni Boccaccio’s Decameron is significant both for numerological and structural reasons. Whether we

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The Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio has had a long and colourful history in English translation. This new interdiscipl

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Divided into ten days of ten novellas each, Boccaccio’s Decameron is one of the literary gems of the fourteenth century.

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This volume deals with the topics of friendship, flattery, and frankness of speech in the Greco-Roman world. The three t

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