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Through poems or excerpts from the greatest Italian poems, this tragical-comical-historical-pastoral book presents a view of Europe’s changing attitudes to the stuff under all our feet, from the bright and traditional Middle Ages into this gloomy and personal century. The poems, chosen by Alistair Elliot, are printed opposite his translations. 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As Elliot declares in a poem about a squashed bug in a book, one person's 'insignificant' can be right at the center for someone, perhaps, everyone else.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49643682300177,"sku":"GOR010075320","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50617996149009,"sku":"GOR005332792","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1857543041.jpg?v=1751061286"},{"product_id":"turning-the-stones-book-alistair-elliot-9781857540413","title":"Turning the Stones","description":"Alistair Elliot has claimed that anything he puts into a poem, he'll have in the after-life. Earlier books provide food and drink: he's now packing up whole countries, species, friends. 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