The Flaming Heart (Norton Library) (Norton Library (Paperback))

Praz, Mario

ISBN 10: 0393006697 / ISBN 13: 9780393006698

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, 1973

About this Item

Publisher: Norton, NY, 1973. First Softcover Edition, First Printing. NEAR FINE softcover book in pictorial/illustrated wraps, as issued. Sun toned to dj's spine. Not remainder marked. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy.

Seller Inventory # SKU1026958

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Flaming Heart (Norton Library) (Norton Library (Paperback))
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393006697
• ISBN 13: 9780393006698
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 13 ounces

About this title

Synopsis

From the time of Chaucer to the present we follow the sense of Italy and Italian thought and imagination which has directed and enlivened the works of major English writers―Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne, Crashaw, and the Brownings among them.

Here, in his own translations and in original English versions of his own, Professor Praz has gathered many important essays central to his life’s work, in a continuous study of the vital currents which have flowed between two cultures, the English and the Italian. The classic writers of Italy―Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Ariosto, Tasso, and others―are studied in their effects on English literature.

About the Author

Mario Praz (1896-1982) was Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Rome. The most celebrated of his many other books is The Romantic Agony.