Three Prose Writers of the Italian Renaissance: Edited with an Introduction and Notes (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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It is hoped that the present edition of Italian prose classics will prove helpful to advanced students of Italian, in acquainting them with some of the literary and political interests of the Italian Renaissance, and that it will stimulate such students to further reading of these prose-masters. With this in view, the editor has, in preparing the selections, chosen consecutive Chapters from the beginning of Il Cortegiano and Il Principe in order that, when there is a de sire to read further in either of these works, the continuity of thought may remain unbroken.
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