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Armando Maggi
Employing contemporary theoretical perspectives, this book provides the first detailed analysis of the language and thought of Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi, an important but neglected Renaissance mystic.
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In one of the only English translations available, here are the mystical visions of Maria Maddalena de’ Pazzi (1566-1606), one of the most original woman mystics of the Renaissance.
Carrying his story into the twentieth century, the author mounts an argument for freeing fairy tales from their bland contemporary forms, and reinvigorating your belief that we still can find…
In its interpretation of Latin and Greek culture, Christianity contends that Satan is behind all deities, demigods, and spiritual creatures, including the gods of the household, the lares and penates…
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Italian novelist, poet, and filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally killed in Rome in 1975, a macabre end to a career that often explored humanity’s capacity for violence and cruelty…
Although Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) is best known today for his Italian poetry, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars of his age. This…
Although Francesco Petrarca (1304-74) is best known today for cementing the sonnet’s place in literary history, he was also a philosopher, historian, orator, and one of the foremost classical scholars…
