Edited and Translated with an Introduction by Brian P. Copenhaver and Rebecca Copenhaver
From around 1800, shortly before Pasquale Galluppis first book, until 1950, just before Benedetto Croce died, the most formative influences on Italian philosophers were Kant and the post-Kantians … More
Alfredo Giuliani (ed.)
Introduction by Luigi Ballerini Notes by Federica Santini
No postwar literature has been as fundamentally and relentlessly experimental as Italian poetry since the mid-1950s. In the forefront of this renewed interest in experimentation were five neo-avant-garde poets called the Novissimi … More
Giordano Bruno
Giovan Francesco Straparola
Gasparo Contarini,
Edited with an Introduction by Peter Mentzel and Filippo Sabetti
Contarini (1483-1542) served Venice and the Catholic church in multiple capacities. His book places in sharp relief the constitutional and institutional dynamics that made the Republic of Venice the longest-lived, self-constituted commercial republic … More
John Florio
A Critical Edition with an Introduction, by Herman W. Haller
A Worlde of Wordes is the first comprehensive large-size bilingual Italian-English dictionary published in 1598 by John Florio, one of the most prominent linguists and educators in Elizabethan England … More
Vincenzo Cuoco
Edited with an Introduction by Filippo Sabetti
Born in Civita Campomarano, Molise, Vincenzo Cuoco’s life (1770-1823) spanned the period of revolution and reaction. As a political theroist, he sought to understand two social dilemmas … More
In his Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy of 1860, Jacob Burckhardt wrote: “In his famous treatise ‘On the Sober Life’ [Alvise Cornaro] describes the strict regimen by which he succeeded, after a sickly youth, in reaching an advanced healthy age, then of eighty-three years.
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Giovanni Botero
Translated with an Introduction by Geoffrey Symcox
Giovanni Botero (1544-1617) is mainly known today as the author of On the Reason of State, the definitive exposition of Counter-Reformation statecraft. That work has long overshadowed the treatise he published as a companion piece … More
Scipio Sighele
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Nicoletta Pireddu
Foreword by Remo Bodei
Translated by Luca Pellegrini
A collaborator of noted criminal anthropologist Cesare Lombroso, and a jurist under the guidance of Enrico Ferri, Scipio Sighele is considered a pioneer in the study of collective behavior … More
Introduction by Daria Perocco
Introduction by Michael Hackett
Amerigo Vespucci
What caused renaissance geographers in 1507 to name newly discovered continent America, in honor of Amerigo Vespucci, instead of, say, Columbia? The six letters of Vespucci, published in Letters from a New World, convinced Europe of the momentous truth … More