Italian Literature before 1900 in English Translation provides the most complete record possible of texts from the early periods that have been translated into

The Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The outsized reputations of the best-known figures from the peri

Few periods have given civilization such a strong impulse as the Renaissance, which started in Italy and then spread to the rest of Europe. During its brief epo

By the beginning of the 1530s, the governments of many German territories that had abolished Catholicism and established the Reformation had begun to impose str