A Selection of Italian Medieval Literary Texts (English and Italian Edition)

A Selection of Italian Medieval Literary Texts presents original texts with facing translation of poets echoed in Dante's works (i.e. Guido Cavalcanti, found in La Vita Nuova and Inferno X, Pier della Vigna, remembered in Inferno XIII, Guido Guinizelli, recalled in Purgatorio, Francis of Assisi, praised in Paradiso, etc.), while covering most of the literary genres: poetry, drama and prose. The main part of the anthology is dedicated to Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio. The volume includes ten of the most memorable cantos of Dante's Inferno, Canto V of Purgatorio and Canto XXXIII of Paradiso. Twelve of the most popular poems from Petrarch's Canzoniere are included as well as ten popular tales from Boccaccio's Decameron.

Maria C. Pastore Passaro is a professor of Italian at Central Connecticut State University. A Medieval and Renaissance scholar, Prof. Passaro has published widely on Italian literature. Her publications include translations of Longfellow s Michael Angelo, Tusiani s Gente Mia and Other Poems, Rind and All, The Fifth Season, and Tasso s King Torrismondo (Fordham University Press, 1997). She is the author of Representation of Women in Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Texts (Mellen, 2005), co-author of Selected Writings of Girolamo Savonarola: Religion and Politics 1490-1498 (Yale University Press, 2006), contributed three essays to the 2006 Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, and an essay to the Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine (Oxford UP, 2012). She was the recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award, and of several academic honors from AATI, MLA, NEH, Agnelli Foundation, NIAF and Fulbright.