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"Published as part of the E.H. Gombrich lecture series, cosponsored by the Warburg Institute and Princeton University Press. The lectures upon which this book is based were delivered in October 2014"--Copyright page.

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It was a refreshing, old-fashioned pleasure to read Julie Scott Meisami's verse translation of, and introduction and notes to, this twelfth-century Persian allegorical romance. Orhan Pahmuk, in the Times Literary Supplement

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This book proposes a new approach to invective and comic poetry in the Middle Ages and opens the way for an innovative understanding of Dantes masterpiece. It also unveils new biographical data from Italian state archives (published in English for the very first time) about important poets from medieval Italy.

The most comprehensive treatment of the Arabian Nights ever published, with more than 800 detailed encyclopedic entries and a wealth of authoritative essays and resources.

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The Iliad and The Odyssey are perhaps the most influential works in the history of western literature. This exquisite analysis of their creation and influence establishes how, precisely, these two poems, written nearly three thousand years ago, have come to resonate throughout the world.