Ancient Classical category: 1324 books

«A rigor di lessico, io non sono un dantista… un dantista è per definizione uno studioso, e io sono tuttalpiù uno studente: un molto attempato studente che campa scrivendo, e da ultimo leggendo forte quello che ha scritto.» Vittorio Sermonti ha dedicato una vita intera alla diffusione della...

“Il viaggio esprime un desiderio profondo di cambiamento interiore, un bisogno di esperienze nuove, più che di spostamento locale. Secondo Jung, testimonia una insoddisfazione che spinge alla ricerca e alla scoperta di nuovi orizzonti. […] Il viaggio nell’inferno rappresenta una discesa alle...

One of the most ambitious essays in the interpretation of Dante our times have ever seen. His interpretation of the role of Beatrice is deeply fascinating. Charles Williams was one of the finest - not to mention one of the most unusual - theologians of the twentieth century. His mysticism is palpable...

Extrait :  C’est à tort que les hommes se plaignent de leur condition, sous prétexte que leur vie, si faible et si courte, serait gouvernée par le hasard plutôt  que par la vertu. Loin de là ; quiconque voudra y penser reconnaîtra qu’il n’y a rien de plus grand, de plus élevé,...

Frances Eliza Hodgson Burnett is best known for writing books for kids, and her classic A Little Princess, originally published in 1905, is considered one of literature's best children's novels.

Junto con Virgilio y con Ovidio, Horacio forma la tríada de los grandes poetas augústeos, que es también la los grandes poetas latinos de la Antigüedad. Horacio fue para la literatura europea medieval y moderna un modelo en la lírica, la sátira y la teoría poética. Quinto Horacio Flaco (65...

These twelve stories are told by the old soldiers of the Runagates Club as they reminisce. Richard Hanny, hero of The Thirty-nine Steps, reappears recounting a trek into the bush in The Green Wildebeest. In Dr Lartius, John Palliser-Yeates describes an ingenious Secret Service operation during the First World War. A German code is finally broken in The Loathly Opposite.

Andrew Lang was a Scottish writer best known for collecting folklore, legends, and fairy tales and making a compendium of them to celebrate ethnic heritage.

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...

In those walks of ours I believe he did most of the talking, and from his talk then and at other times there remains to me an impression of his growing conservatism. I had in fact come into his life when it had spent its impulse towards positive reform, and I was to be witness of its increasing tendency towards the negative sort.

La favola di Amore e Psiche scritta da Lucio Apuleio all’interno delle Metamorfosi, è una vera e autentica fiaba, dove esistono atmosfere magiche e incantate come nella tradizione popolare.  Un racconto da tutto il mondo conosciuto, di cui sono state date le più disparate interpretazioni, ma...

The textual foundations of works of great cultural significance are often less stable than one would wish them to be. No work of Homer, Dante or Shakespeare survives in utterly reliable witnesses, be they papyri, manuscripts or printed editions. Notions of textual authority have varied considerably...

Orlando furioso opera completa di Ludovico Ariosto in versione integrale lettura agevolata in formato ebook

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