The Portable Dante (92 page)

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Orlando Furioso
Ludovico Ariosto
Translated with an Introduction by Barbara Reynolds

A dazzling kaleidoscope of adventures, ogres, monsters, barbaric splendor, and romance, this epic poem stands as one of the greatest works of the Italian Renaissance.

Part I: ISBN 0-14-044311-8
Part II: ISBN 0-14-044310-X

The Decameron

Giovanni Boccaccio

Translated with an Introduction and Notes by G. H. McWilliam

Read as a social document of medieval times, as an earthly counterpart of Dante’s
Divine Comedy,
or even as an early manifestation of the dawning spirit of the Renaissance,
The Decameron
is a masterpiece of imaginative narrative whose background is the Florentine plague of 1348.

ISBN 0-14-044930-2

The Travels
Marco Polo Translated with an Introduction by Ronald Latham

Despite piracy, shipwreck, brigandage, and wild beasts, Polo moved in a world of highly organized commerce. This chronicle of his travels through Asia, whether read as fact or fiction, is alive with adventures, geographical information, and descriptions of natural phenomena.

ISBN 0-14-044057-7

The Story of My Life

Giovanni Giacomo Casanova

Translated by Stephen Sartarelli and Sophie Hawkins

Edited with an Introduction by Gilberto Pizzamiglio

Seducer, gambler, necromancer, swashbuckler, spy, self-made gentleman, entrepreneur, and general bon vivant, Casanova lived a life richer and stranger than most fiction. The first new translation since the 1960s, this edition provides the highlights from his twelve volumes in one beautiful, unique volume

ISBN 0-14-043915-3

The Book of the Courtier

Baldesar Castiglone

Translated with an Introduction by George Bull

Discretion, decorum, nonchalance, and gracefulness are qualities of the complete and perfect Italian Renaissance courtier that are outlined in this series of imaginary conversations between the principal members of the court of Urbino in 1507.

ISBN 0-14-044192-1

Autobiography

Benvenuto Cellini

Translated with an Introduction and Notes by George Bull

With enviable powers of invective and an irrepressible sense of humor, Cellini provides an unrivaled portrait of the manners and morals of the Italy of Michelangelo and Medici.

ISBN 0-14-044718-0

The Portable Machiavelli
Niccolò Machiavelli

Edited by Peter Bonanella and Mark Musa

This essential collection of Machiavelli’s writings brings together the complete texts of
The Prince, Belfagor,
and
Castruccio Castracani,
as wells as an abridged version of
The Discourses,
private letters, and selec tions from his
The Art of War.

ISBN 0-14-015092-7

The Discourses

Niccolo Machiavelli

Edited with an Introduction by Bernard Crick

with Revisions by Brian Richardson

Translated by Leslie J. Walker

Machiavelli examines the glorious republican past of Rome. In contrast

with
The Prince,
this unfinished work upholds the Republic as the best and most enduring style of government

ISBN0-14-044428-9

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

Revised Translation by George Bull

Introduction by Anthony Grafton

Machiavelli’s famous portrait of the prince still “retains its power to fascinate, frighten and to instruct. ” Rejecting the traditional values of political theory, Machiavelli drew upon his own experiences of office under the turbulent Florentine republic when he wrote his celebrated treatise on statecraft. The tough realities of Machiavelli’s Italian are well preserved in the clear, unambiguous English of George Bull’s translation.

ISBN 0-14-044915-9

Letters to Father

Suor Maria Celeste to Galileo, 1623-1633

S. M. Celeste Galilei

Translated and Annotated by Dava Sobel

Placed in a convent at the age of thirteen (where she was renamed Suor Maria Celeste), Virginia Galilei, Galileo’s eldest daughter, wrote to her father continually. The letters span a dramatic decade that included the Thirty Years’ War, the bubonic plague, and the development of Galileo’s

own universe-changing discoveries, but though they touch on these events, the letters mostly focus on the details of everyday life that connect this fascinating father and daughter. All 124 surviving letters arc here translated into English

ISBN 0-14-243715-8

Lives of the Artists

Volume 1

Giorgio Vasari

Translated and Edited with an Introduction by George Bull

Vasari offers insights into the lives and techniques of twenty artists, from Cimabue, Giotto, and Leonardo to Michelangelo and Titian.

ISBN 0-14-044500-5

Lives of the Artists

Volume 2

Translated and Edited with an Introduction by George Bull

and Notes on the Artists by Peter Murray

Vasari’s knowledge was based on his own experience as an early Renaissance painter and architect. Volume 2 explores the lives of twentyfive artists, from Perugino to Giovanni Pisano

ISBN 0-14-044460-2

New Science

Giambattista Vico

Translated by David Marsh with an Introduction by Anthony Grafton

This astonishingly ambitious attempt to provide a comprehensive science of all human society by decoding the history, mythology, and law of the ancient world marked a turning-point in humanist thinking as significant as Newton’s contemporary revolution in physics.

ISBN 0-14-043569-7

The Betrothed

Alessandro Manzoni

(
I
promessi sposi)

Translated with an Introduction by Bruce Penman

Manzoni chronicles the perils of two lovers caught in the turbulence of seventeenth-century Italy

ISBN 0-14-044274-X

Cavalleria Rusticana and Other Stories