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The Faithful Lover

By: Massimo Bontempelli

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A short story collection by renowned writer Massimo Bontempelli. From a young boy's memorable encounter with a pair of ghostly lovers, to an elderly woman's unsettling final bequest, these powerful stories illuminate Bontempelli's belief that the wonders of the world can be found all around us, dwelling within the realm of the everyday." from publisher

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Host Publications, Inc.

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0924047356

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9780924047350

The Faithful Lover

By: Massimo Bontempelli

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By: Massimo Bontempelli

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The Chess Set in the Mirror

By: Massimo Bontempelli

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The Chess Set in the Mirror

By: Massimo Bontempelli

A boy who is being punished finds himself transported to the strange world on the other side of a mirror, where he encounters living chess pieces, as well as everything and everyone that was ever reflected in the mirror.

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125

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Paul Dry Books

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1589880315

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9781589880313

Adventures in Speech

Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's "Decameron"

By: Pier Massimo Forni

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Adventures in Speech

Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's "Decameron"

By: Pier Massimo Forni

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1996 The Decameron is a narrative account of a situation in which narration takes place-a collection of one hundred stories set within a larger story. As a group of young men and women fleeing the plague trade stories to pass the time of crisis, storytelling occurs in a social context that allows for comment upon the tales by the tellers themselves, in a setting that elicits one story in return for another. In his close and original analysis, Pier Massimo Forni uses the notion of rhetoric as a guiding principle for a critical assessment of the Decameron. He explores the discursive tools with which the narrators connect the contents of their stories to their audience's environment, and goes on to argue that the book is significantly marked by Boccaccio's habit of exploring the narrative potential of rhetorical forms. By showing how the Decameron marks a new stage in the development of vernacular realism, Forni also charts a new course in Boccaccio criticism. Viewing the cultural and rhetorical context of the medieval masterpiece from a fresh perspective, he offers intriguing insights into the functioning of Boccaccio's narrative. Adventures in Speech maps the cognitive poetic processes that rule the complex authorial network of relationships involving speech, event, received culture, and narrative objects.

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176

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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1512804274

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9781512804270

Ezra Pound, Italy, and the Cantos

By: Massimo Bacigalupo

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Ezra Pound, Italy, and the Cantos

By: Massimo Bacigalupo

Ezra Pound spent most of his life in Italy and wrote about it incessantly in his poetry. Only by following his footsteps, acquaintances and composition processes can we make sense of and enjoy his forbidding Cantos. This study provides for the first time an account of Pound’s Italian wanderings and of what they became in his work. After this study we will be able to read Pound as a guide to the places, people and books he loved, and we will share his the poet traveler’s joys and discoveries.

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Liverpool University Press

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1949979016

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9781949979015

Book's by Massimo Bontempelli

The Faithful Lover

The Faithful Lover

The Faithful Lover

The Faithful Lover

The Chess Set in the Mirror

The Chess Set in the Mirror

Adventures in Speech

Adventures in Speech

Ezra Pound, Italy, and the Cantos

Ezra Pound, Italy, and the Cantos

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