The Chronicle of an Anonymous Roman

THE CHRONICLE of an Anonymous Roman is a treasure of history writing and of medieval Italian literature. It offers the most important narrative of late medieval Rome during the Avignon papacy. Most famously, it provides our most detailed account of late medieval Rome’s most famous son, Cola di Rienzo. Written in Romanesco, the chronicle leads us through the streets, rioni, and palaces of Rienzo’s Rome. It also offers keen observations on Milan, Florence, Naples, and the Romagna; on Iberia, the eastern Mediterranean, France, and Hungary. James A. Palmer presents the first complete English translation of this masterpiece. His introduction captures the style, spirit, and wry irony of this master historian. Palmer brings us a primer on fourteenth-century Italy. 6 maps, introduction, annotated English translation, bibliography, index. History, Historiography, Rome, Italian Studies, Mediterranean Studies Petrarch, Francesco LFM 1 Letters on Familiar Matters 1.1 (HC) MAKES AVAILABLE to English-speaking readers Petrarch’s earliest and perhaps most important collection of prose letters in an elegant and affordable paperback edition. Petrarch was the consummate artist,whether in writing poetry, or being crowned poet laureate, or in confessing his faults, describing the dissolution of the kingdom of Naples, summoning up the grandeur of ancient Rome, or in writing to pope or emperor. He was always conscious that his private life and thoughts were the object of high art and public interest. Translated by Aldo S. Bernardo. Books I–VIII. Introduction, notes, bibliography. Petrarch, Francesco LFM 2 Letters on Familiar Matters 2.1 (HC) MAKES AVAILABLE to English-speaking readers Petrarch’s earliest and perhaps most important collection of prose letters in an elegant and affordable paperback edition . Petrarch was the consummate artist,whether in writing poetry, or being crowned poet laureate, or in confessing his faults, describing the dissolution of the kingdom of Naples, summoning up the grandeur of ancient Rome, or in writing to pope or emperor. He was always conscious that his private life and thoughts were the object of high art and public interest . Translated by Aldo S. Bernardo. Books IX–XVI. Introduction, notes, bibliography.— Google Books