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COSA SONO GLI INFOPRODOTTI Gli infoprodotti sono in linea generale dei prodotti informativi che forniscono informazioni su un determinato argomento: come funziona un processo o un software, come risolvere un problema, “come fare per”; l’infoprodotto è la risposta a un problema che l'acquirente...

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Action/Adventure and Manga all blend into this Steampunk saga about interconnected worlds at the mercy of an invasion.. PUBLICATION IN 4 VOLUMES - COMPLETED SERIES. Seven planets linked to one another by the multidimensional gates of a giant ring. Only the passage to Nemo, one of the...

Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Action/Adventure and Manga all blend into this Steampunk saga about interconnected worlds at the mercy of an invasion.. PUBLICATION IN 4 VOLUMES - COMPLETED SERIES. Seven planets linked to one another by the multidimensional gates of a giant ring. Only the passage to Nemo, one of the...

What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers...

Ricciardi has visions. He sees and hears the final seconds in the lives of victims of violent deaths. It is both a gift and a curse. It has helped him become one of the most acute and successful homicide detectives in the Naples police force. But all that horror and suffering has hollowed him out...

Il mito di Ulisse è diventato, nel tempo, una storia infinita, declinata in mille modi, con mille diverse sfumature. Le vicende del suo viaggio - da Troia ad Itaca -, narrate come fantastiche avventure alla corte dei Feaci, hanno posto le basi per trasformare l'uomo del ritorno, il reduce per eccellenza,...

Il Decameron è considerato una delle opere più importanti della letteratura del Trecento europeo e il capostipite della letteratura in prosa italiana. Boccaccio raffigura l'intera società del tempo, integrando l'ideale di vita aristocratico, basato sull'amor cortese, la magnanimità, la liberalità,...

Written in the middle of the 14th century as the Bubonic Plague decimated the population of Europe, "The Decameron" is a satirically allegorical collection of stories by the Italian author Boccaccio. The refined frame narrative of this work allows for ten Florentine women and men to flee the city and...

“Rebhorn deserves our gratitude for an eminently persuasive translation. . . . I celebrate his accomplishment.”—Edith Grossman The year is 1348. The Black Death has begun to ravage Europe. Ten young Florentines—seven women and three men—escape the plague-infested city and retreat...

The Decameron is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to escape the ravages of the plague. Boccaccio's skill as a dramatist is masterfully...

While the Black Death rages through 14th-century Florence, a group of young people retreat to the healthful air of the countryside and amuse themselves by telling tales of romance and adventure. This is the premise of Boccaccio's Decameron, a landmark of early Renaissance literature and one of the...

Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation. This hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories of Boccaccio's masterwork in a fresh, accessible new translation by Peter Hainsworth. It includes...

The third in the very popular Very Christmas series, this volume brings together the best Italian Christmas stories of all time in an elegant and vibrant collection featuring classic tales and contemporary works. With writing that dates from the Renaissance to the present day, from Boccaccio to Pirandello,...