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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler(Reprint)
by Italo Calvino, William Weaver, Tim Parks, Martin Mclaughlin
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2015 by Mariner Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-544-57787-9, ISBN: 0-544-57787-6

"The definitive edition of Calvino’s cosmicomics, bringing together all of these enchanting stories—including some never before translated—in one volume for the first timeIn Italo Calvino’s cosmicomics, primordial beings cavort on the nearby surface of the moon, play marbles with atoms, and bear ecstatic witness to Earth’s first dawn. Exploring natural phenomena and the origins of the universe, these beloved tales relate complex scientif ..."

The Complete Cosmicomics(Updated)
by Italo Calvino, William Weaver, Tim Parks, Martin Mclaughlin, Martin Mclaughlin Calvino
Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN-13: 978-0-544-14644-0, ISBN: 0-544-14644-1

"The definitive edition of Calvino’s cosmicomics, bringing together all of these enchanting stories—including some never before translated—in one volume for the first time In Italo Calvino’s cosmicomics, primordial beings cavort on the nearby surface of the moon, play marbles with atoms, and bear ecstatic witness to Earth’s first dawn. Exploring natural phenomena and the origins of the universe, these beloved tales relate complex scienti ..."

TheComplete Cosmicomics by Calvino, Italo ON May-06-2010, Paperback(1st Edition)
by Italo Calvino, Martin Mclaughlin, Tim Parks, William Weaver
Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2012 by Penguin Classics
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ISBN-13: 978-0-14-118968-0, ISBN: 0-14-118968-1

"Italo Calvino's enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, The Complete Cosmicomics is translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William Weaver in Penguin Modern Classics.'Naturally, we were all there, - dld Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have f ..."

The Path to the Spiders' Nests(1st Edition)
(Modern Classics (Penguin))
by Italo Calvino, Archibald Colquhoun, Martin Mclaughlin, Tim Parks, Patrick Creagh
Paperback, 185 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Books
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ISBN-13: 978-0-14-118973-4, ISBN: 0-14-118973-8

"Pin is a bawdy, adolescent cobbler's assistant, both arrogant and insecure who - while the Second World War rages - sings songs and tells jokes to endear himself to the grown-ups of his town - particularly jokes about his sister, who they all know as the town's 'mattress'. Among those his sister sleeps with is a German sailor, and Pin dares to steal his pistol, hiding it among the spiders' nests in an act of rebellion that entangles him ..."

Six Memos for the Next Millennium
(Penguin Modern Classics)
by Italo Calvino, Patrick Creagh, Martin Mclaughlin, Tim Parks, William Weaver
Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Books
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ISBN-13: 978-0-14-118969-7, ISBN: 0-14-118969-X

"Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard in 1985-86, but they were left unfinished at his death. The surviving drafts explore of the concepts of Lightness, Quickness, Multiplicity, Exactitude and Visibility (Constancy was to be the sixth) in serious yet playful essays that reveal Calvino's debt to the comic strip and the folktale. With his customary imagination and grace, he sought to define the virt ..."

The Road to San Giovanni
(Penguin Modern Classics)
by Italo Calvino, Tim Parks, Martin Mclaughlin, Patrick Creagh
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-118971-0, ISBN: 0-14-118971-1

"In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists. He also muses on the social contracts, language and sensations associated with emptying the kitchen rubbish and the shape he would, if asked, consider the world. These reflections on the nature of memory itself are ..."

Numbers in the Dark and Stories
(Modern Classics (Penguin))
by Italo Calvino, Tim Parks, Martin Mclaughlin, Patrick Creagh, William Weaver
Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-14-118974-1, ISBN: 0-14-118974-6

"Paperback. Pub Date :2009-05-01 Pages: 276 Language: English Publisher: Penguin Books Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvinos extraordinary writing career. from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty allegories and wise fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-cat; a pitiable tribe watching the flight paths of guided m ..."

Complete Cosmicomics
(Penguin Modern Classics)
by Italo Calvino, Martin Mclaughlin, Tim Parks, William Weaver, Patrick Creagh
Hardcover, 432 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Books, Limited (Uk)
ISBN-13: 978-1-84614-165-2, ISBN: 1-84614-165-6

by Italo Calvino, Martin Mclaughlin, William Weaver, Tim Parks, Patrick Creagh
Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2009 by Penguin Classics
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ISBN-13: 978-0-14-118972-7, ISBN: 0-14-118972-X

"A couple on an epicurean journey across Mexico are excited by the idea of a particular ingredient, suggested by ancient rituals of human sacrifice. Precariously balanced on his throne, a king is able only to listen to the sounds around him - sure that any deviation from their normal progression would mean the uprising of the conspirators that surround him. And three different men search desperately for the beguiling scents of lost women ..."

Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy
a Festschrift for John Woodhouse: A Festschrift for John Woodhouse
by Martin Mclaughlin, Peter Hainsworth, John Robert Woodhouse
Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2020 by Taylor And Francis 2020-06-30, London
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-60377-9, ISBN: 0-367-60377-2

"This book presents a collection of twelve essays on the interplay between individual lives and life-writing and the wider social and political history of Italy."

Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology
Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti
by Martin Mclaughlin
268 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-351-57493-8, ISBN: 1-351-57493-0

"... gen. ed. conrad eubel (Munster: Libraria Regensbergiana, 1913-[2002]), vol. Iv : A pontificatu Clementi PP. VIII (1592) usque ad pontificatum Alexandri PP. VIII ( 1667), ed. by Patrice gauchat, p. 89. cf. Petri Strozae S.mi Domini Nostri Secretario Apostolici Domestici Responsio, in Amati, pp. 72–73. Pietro strozzi ( 1569–1625), a Florentine, was secretary to Paul v and secretary for the Briefs: see Le istruzioni generali di Paolo ..."

Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology
Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti
by Martin Mclaughlin
Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-351-57492-1, ISBN: 1-351-57492-2

"On imitation in general, see Martin L. McLaughlin, Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance. The Theory and Practice of Literary Imitation in Italy from Dante to Bembo (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995). 34. Pietro Bembo, Lettere, ed. by Ernesto Travi, 4 vols (Bologna: Commissione dei testi di lingua, 1987—93), II, 327 (Padua, 5 January 1526). See also Bembo's 'Avvertimenti' to Fracastoro in Girolamo Fracastoro, Scritti inediti, ..."

Britain and Italy from Romanticism to Modernism
A Festschrift for Peter Brand
by Martin Mclaughlin
216 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-351-19853-0, ISBN: 1-351-19853-X

"2 Gabriele Rossetti, Carteggi, ed. P. R. Horne, Tobia R. Toscano, and J. R. Woodhouse, 5 vols. to date (Naples: Loffredo, 1984—2000), ii. 252. 3 The Works of D. G. Rossetti, with preface and notes by William M. Rossetti (London: Ellis, 1911), 284. 4 Rossetti, Carteggi, i. 17 1, 173, 180, ... William Michael demurs here, but see the exchange in the preface to his edition of Poems and Translations (London: Elkins, 1903). 9 Gabriele R ..."

Biographies and Autobiographies in Modern Italy
a Festschrift for John Woodhouse
by Martin Mclaughlin
200 Pages, Published 2017 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-351-19541-6, ISBN: 1-351-19541-7

"namely her hair and her seductive enticement: 'Quella tenebrosa figura di donna coi capelli neri che le piovevano come serpenti; folti e indomabili [...] con quel sorriso di invito e di abbandono [...] sorriso di sirena e di sfinge' [That dark figure of a woman with black hair clustering round her like snakes; thick and untameable [...] with that smile of invitation and abandonment [...] the smile of a siren and a sphinx.]64 Anothe ..."

The Divine Comedy(Updated)
Inferno (Hesperus Classics)
by Dante Alighieri, Ian Thomson, J.G. Nichols, Martin Mclaughlin
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2005 by Hesperus Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-84391-111-1, ISBN: 1-84391-111-6

"A new verse translation of the first canticle of Dante's moving human drama, a poetic masterpiece of penance and hope, annotated and in a dual-language edition. With a Foreword by Ian Thomson and an Introduction by Martin McLaughlin.Awakening in a dark wood, the poet Dante is forced to confront the "darkness" of his own life, and so he embarks upon a three-day journey towards redemption. His first day is spent traveling through Hell—th ..."

The Hermit in Paris Autobiographical Writings(Updated)
by Italo Calvino, Martin Mclaughlin
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2004 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-928637-0, ISBN: 0-09-928637-8

The Path to the Spiders' Nests(Updated)
by Italo Calvino, Martin Mclaughlin, M. L. Mclaughlin
Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1999 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-947371-8, ISBN: 0-09-947371-2

"'The crucial novel of Calvino' s early years is his first, The Path to the Spiders' Nests, Published in 1947 when he was 24, it draws heavily on his experiences in the war ."

The Path to the Spiders' Nests(Updated)
by Italo Calvino, Martin Mclaughlin
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 1998 by Jonathan Cape Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-224-04031-0, ISBN: 0-224-04031-6

Authority, Innovation and Early Modern Epistemology(1st Edition)
Essays in Honour of Hilary Gatti (Legenda Main)
by Martin Mclaughlin, Elisabetta Tarantino, Ingrid D. Rowland
Hardcover, 268 Pages, Published 2015 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-907975-75-2, ISBN: 1-907975-75-6

"Giordano Bruno (1548-1600), who died at the stake, is one of the best-known symbols of anti-establishment thought. The theme of this volume, which is offered as a collection of essays to honour the distinguished Bruno scholar Hilary Gatti, reflects her constant concern for the principles of cultural freedom and independent thinking. Several essays deal with Bruno himself, including an analysis of the Eroici furori, a study of his recept ..."

Dante the Lyric and Ethical Poet(1st Edition)
Dante lirico e etico (Legenda Main Series)
by Zygmunt G. Bara'nski, Martin Mclaughlin, Professor Zygmunt G. Baranski
Hardcover, 220 Pages, Published 2010 by Legenda
ISBN-13: 978-1-906540-04-3, ISBN: 1-906540-04-7

"This book presents the proceedings of the fifth meeting of the International Dante Seminar. As with previous volumes, the proceedings also include a carefully edited account of the extensive discussions which followed the presentations. The papers, given by some of the leading international scholars of the poet - from Italy, the UK and the USA - address four major topics of particular concern to present-day Dante studies: Dante as a lyr ..."