Sonnets by Cecco Angiolieri
Cecco Angiolieri, the enfant terrible of Italian literature, loved women, gambling, food and wine. It is said that he found comfort for his bad luck with the dice and Becchina, his unreciprocating lover, only by pouring venomous scorn upon his miserly parents. Cecco's outbursts of rage against his fate and his earthly view of the world - diametrically opposed to the Stil Novo of Cavalcanti and Dante, the target of some of his fiercest sonnets - are perfectly encapsulated in his poetry, which is presented here with the facing Italian text in C.H. Scott's beautiful verse translation.-
The Devil's Elixirs
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Humiliated and Insulted
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Decameron
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Selected Letters
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Peter Schlemihl
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The Diaries of Adam and Eve
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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
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Ladies' Delight
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Memoirs of a Good-for-nothing
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Lars Porsena, or the Future of Swearing
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Gulliver's Travels
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Histoires Naturelles
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Impressions of Africa
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Fosca
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The Woman in the Case and Other Stories
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The Dictionary of Received Ideas
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Struggle for Life
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My Father Joseph Conrad
Loved, imitated and translated across the centuries by the most famous poetes maudits and bohemian writers, Cecco Angiolieri, with his linguistic originality and knife-sharp wit, is here revealed as the undisputed master of Italian comic verse.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847490438 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847490433 |
| Title | Sonnets |
| Author | Cecco Angiolieri |
| Series | Oneworld Classics Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Alma Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2008-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 270 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |