The Story of Attila in Prose is the first critical edition and translation of the thirteenth century Franco-Italian prose text the Estoire d’Atile en prose. Preserved in two anonymous and untitled manuscripts composed between the last quarter of the thirteenth century and the beginning of the fourteenth century, the story recounts the fictional founding of Venice after the invasion of Aquileia by Attila the Hun. The manuscripts, located in Zagreb and Venice, detail Attila...

A superb translation of Dante’s classic tale that chronicles the poet’s journey through the nine circles of Hell, a dual-language edition vividly rendered and with an introduction and commentary by National Book Award–winning translator Allen Mandelbaum“Exactly what we have waited for these years, a Dante with clarity, eloquence, terror, and profoundly moving depths.”—Robert Fagles, Princeton UniversityIn the Inferno, renowned tran...

Robert Durling's spirited new prose translation of the Paradiso completes his masterful rendering of the Divine Comedy. Durling's earlier translations of the Inferno and the Purgatorio garnered high praise, and with this superb version of the Paradiso readers can now traverse the entirety of Dante's epic poem of spiritual ascent with the guidance of one of the greatest living Italian-to-English translators. Reunited with his beloved Beatrice in the Purgatorio, in the Paradiso the poet-narr...

A newly translated LIBRETTO with foreign language and english translation side-by-side, AND Music Highlight Examples.

This classic text, first published in 1972, has withstood the test of time as a teaching aid for English-speaking singers, teachers, coaches, and accompanists, in order that their art may be more communicative to the public. These word-by-word translations of songs and arias allow the artist to properly interpret and express the feelings and emotions that the words require at the proper time.

A new translation of Dante's Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy. This is a bilingual edition with an illuminating introduction from the translator.Winner of the American Literary Translators Association 2022 National Translation Award in Poetry.Purgatorio, the middle section of Dante’s great poem about losing, and subsequently finding, one’s way in the mi...

Shpend Sollaku No si erge a Dante Alighieri del XXI secolo: non ci sono bolge o gironi infernali, ma la visione ugualmente terrificante. Leggendo questo libro ci sentiamo pi che dannati, veri burattini che circolano per il mondo-inferno, dove al posto delle fiamme ci sono linformatica, i mutui da pagare, le finanziarie, la banche sanguisughe, linvidia, la gelosia, l'ossessione dellimmagine, false religioni, assenza di cultura, falsit storiche, infami burocrazie, corruzione e incivilt." La ...

Continuing the paperback edition of Charles S. Singleton's translation of The Divine Comedy, this work provides the English-speaking reader with everything he needs to read and understand the Purgatorio. This volume consists of the prose translation of Giorgio Petrocchi's Italian text (which faces the translation on each page); its companion volume of commentary is a masterpiece of erudition, offering a wide range of information on such subjects as Dante's vocabulary, his...

This book presents the proceedings of the international conference “The Middle Ages in the Modern World,” held in Rome November 21-24, 2018. Attended by more than a hundred participants of different ages, educational backgrounds, and places of origin, the conference constituted a landmark in the study of medievalism: the historical discipline, now in full bloom, that investigates the ways in which the thousand-year period between 500 and 1500 was, and continues to be, presented, reconstruc...

Life and arias from María CallasMaría Callas was probably the greatest soprano of “bel canto”. Her life, filled with many ups and downs, can only be compared to the lives of the tragic heroines she used to represent in her scenes.Her trajectory largely exceeded the theatre lyric limits when she became a diva that attracted the interest of the masses, and an international “jet set” star.The play, narrated in first-person by the Diva, portrays the main instances of he...

A collection of my verses, with references to related videos and to the story behind each poem.Poems that had been originally written in English have an Italian translations. Notes are in both languages.The poems are divided in four sections: Street Poems, Christmas Time, Deep Waters, and Armageddon.