Imagine a world where we knew the name of Homer, but the poetry of The Odyssey was lost to us. That was the world of the early Italian Renaissance during the second half of the 15th century. Many ...

MR. HOWELLS practices the profession of the critic somewhat half-heartedly, with little seeming care whether he is original, convincing, or even thorough. Does he suspect that his own critical work is ...

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Le poesie italiane, a book just published by Malta University Press, comprises the first ever complete collection of Dun Karm's numerous poems in Italian. The poems were compiled by Oliver Friggieri, ...

Oliver Friggieri: Storia della Letteratura Maltese: la poesia dalle origini al primo Novecento, Malta University Press, 391pp. This is not a new work but a facsimile reprint of the book originally ...

Suzanne Cleary loves the sound of Italian. When she picked up a copy of "Italian Made Simple," she was determined to teach herself the language before a trip to Italy. Instead Cleary came away ...