Marina Warner begins with the gospels, noting the slight allusions to Mary, and the curious confusions between the two women of that name. ...
Continue Reading →Some of the most significant currents in modern intellectual and cultural history pass by way of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1816). By choosing in ...
Continue Reading →Initially published by Penn State Press in 1965, Catherine Enggass’s translation of Filippo Baldinucci’s Life of Bernini was the first English-language edition of ...
Continue Reading →Originally published in 1984, The Clothing of Clio is concerned with the wide variety of ways in which the past was represented in ...
Continue Reading →‘French Classicism’ remains an oddly elusive concept, not least because there appears to be an unbridgeable divide between the undisputed greatness of the ...
Continue Reading →Lina Bolzoni’s impressive study of the memory culture of sixteenth-century Italy appears here for the first time in English translation. Since its original ...
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