Introduction to Italian Poetry: A Dual-Language Book (Dover Dual Language Italian)

This anthology highlights seven centuries of Italian poetry that will help you learn the language as well. Included are 34 examples of Italian verse in the original with English translations on facing pages. Twenty-one poets are represented, from Saint Francis of Assisi, author of the first memorable Italian lyric, "Cantico delle creature," to Salvatore Quasimodo, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize for Literature. Also included are works by Dante, Petrarch, Ariosto, Tasso, and Montale, as well as such lesser known but significant poets as Compiuta Donzella and Cavalcanti. There are even important works by Boccaccio and Michelangelo.In addition to full Italian texts with expert literal translations on facing pages, this edition contains a wealth of biographical and critical commentary. This anthology highlights seven centuries of Italian poetry that will help you learn the language as well. Included are 34 examples of Italian verse in the original with English translations on facing pages. Twenty-one poets are represented, from Saint Francis of Assisi, author of the first memorable Italian lyric, "Cancio delle creature," to Salvatore Quasimodo, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize for Literature. Also included are works by Dante, Petrarch, Ariosto, Tasso, and Montale, as well as such lesser known but significant poets as Compiuta Donzella and Cavalcanti. There are even important works by Boccaccio and Michelangelo.In addition to full Italian texts with expert literal translations on facing pages, this edition contains a wealth of biographical and critical commentary. This anthology highlights seven centuries of Italian poetry that will help you learn the language as well. Included are 34 examples of Italian verse in the original with English translations on facing pages. Twenty-one poets are represented, from Saint Francis of Assisi, author of the first memorable Italian lyric, "Cancio delle creature," to Salvatore Quasimodo, winner of the 1959 Nobel Prize for Literature. Also included are works by Dante, Petrarch, Ariosto, Tasso, and Montale, as well as such lesser known but significant poets as Compiuta Donzella and Cavalcanti. There are even important works by Boccaccio and Michelangelo. In addition to full Italian texts with expert literal translations on facing pages, this edition contains a wealth of biographical and critical commentary Collection of 34 Italian poems by 21 great Italian poets, including Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Tasso, D'Annunzio and 15 others. The works includes hymns, sonnets, madrigals, heroic epics (excerpts) and lyrics. The book contains the full Italian texts with expert literal English translations on facing pages, biographical and critical commentary, and a portrait of each poet, when available 34 great Italian poems by 21 great Italian poets, including Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Tasso, D'Annunzio and 15 others. Includes hymns, sonnets, madrigals, heroic epics (excerpts) and lyrics. Text contains the full Italian texts with expert literal English translations on facing pages, biographical and critical commentary, and a portrait of each poet, when available

The works of Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, and other immortal poets appear on a 50-minute CD — 34 poems by 21 noted authors, in sensitive renditions by Luciano Rebay, professor of Italian literature at Columbia University. The CD comes with Rebay's 160-page dual-language book, containing the original texts with English on facing pages, plus biographies and commentaries.

50-minute cassette features authentic readings of 34 poems by 21 great Italian poets, including Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Tasso, d'Annunzio and others. Also included is a dual-language book containing the full Italian texts with expert literal English translations on facing pages, biographical and critical commentary, more.
Treasury of 34 hymns, sonnets, madrigals, heroic epics (in selection) and lyrics by Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Tasso, d'Annunzio and 15 others. Full Italian texts with expert literal translations on facing pages, plus biographical and critical commentary on each poet. Introduction. 21 black-and-white illustrations 34 poems by 21 great Italian poet including Dantek Petrarch, Boccaccio, Ariosto Tasso and D'Annunzio. Luciano Rebay reads hymns, sonnets, madrigals, excerpts from heroic epics and lyrics Recitation of 34 great French poems, with full text of the poems in Italian and English translations on the facing pages