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Folgore da San Gimignano and his Followers
The Complete Poems
Fabian Alfie
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2019
This translation brings the complete works of three minor but important Italian poets — Dante’s contemporaries at the turn of the 14th century — to English speakers for the very first time. Taken together, the three authors sketch an idealized portrait of courtly life juxtaposed to the gritty, politically fractured world of northern Italy’s mercantile urban centers in which they lived. One poet, Folgore di San Gimignano, idealizes court life during the period; the second, Cenne da la Chitarra, looks at it more realistically and parodies Folgore; and the third, Pietro dei Faitinelli, takes inspiration from Folgore’s political writings and focuses on the politics of the times. The juxtaposition of the three poets in this work is effective and arguably shows them to be a poetic school. Tournaments, dinner tables, and public squares spring to life through vivid, material details, which should catch the interest of cultural historians and literary scholars alike. This translation is especially deft at reproducing the rich variety of culinary and sartorial vocabulary offered by the poets, and the translations of Pietro dei Faitinelli are especially well-executed.
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Icastes
Marsilio Ficino's Interpretation of Plato's Sophist
Michael J. B. Allen
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016

New 2016 paperback edition of the original 1989 printing (out-of-print).

Michael Allen's latest work on the profoundly influential Florentine thinker of the fifteenth century, Marsilio Ficino, will be welcomed by philosophers, literary scholars, and historians of the Renaissance, as well as by classicists. Ficino was responsible for inaugurating, shaping, and disseminating the wide-ranging philosophico-cultural movement known as Renaissance Platonism, and his views on the Sophist, which he saw as Plato's preeminent ontological dialogue, are of signal interest. This dialogue also served Ficino as a vehicle for exploring a number of other humanist, philosophical, and magical preoccupations, including the theme of man the artist and creator.

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Early Modern Women Journal v14.2
Bernadette Andrea
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2020

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EMWJ v15.1
Bernadette Andrea
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2020

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EMWJ v15.2
Bernadette Andrea
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2021

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The Grinnell Beowulf
Timothy D. Arner
Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2000


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