The Flaming Heart: Essays on Crashaw, Machiavelli, and Other Studies of the Relations Between Italian and English Literature from Chaucer

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 01/17/1973
ISBN: 9780393006698
Pages: 400
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 7.71h x 5.10w x 0.70d