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Learn on Your Own Time at Home or On the Go
Author
Publisher
Marlboro Press/Northwestern
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Claudio Piersanti's spare novel observes the life of Luisa, an aging accountant for a toy firm. She is active, liked, utterly serene in her solitude and her fixed habits. But a series of changes challenge her. An outside world of noise and unknown callers intrudes, and worse, Luisa must cope with the slow collapse of her body and health. This leads her to a fateful mistake: she retires. Soon she has withdrawn into total seclusion and must confront...
13) Building the canon through the classics: imitation and variation in Renaissance Italy (1350-1550)
Series
Metaforms studies in the reception of classical antiquity volume Volume 15
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Author
Series
Great books of the Western world volume 21
Language
English
Description
The "Divine Comedy" was entitled by Dante himself merely "Commedia," meaning a poetic composition in a style intermediate between the sustained nobility of tragedy, and the popular tone of elegy. The word had no dramatic implication at that time, though it did involve a happy ending. The poem is the narrative of a journey down through Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory, and through the revolving heavens into the presence of God. In this aspect it...