The Flaming Heart: Essays on Crashaw, Machiavelli, and Other Studies of the Relations Between Italian and English Literature from Chaucer (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393006698)

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.

Author: Mario Praz
ISBN-10: 0393006697
ISBN-13: 9780393006698
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1973
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 7.71h x 5.10w x 0.70d