Stagebunny's "Harold Bloom's Western Canon: The Aristocratic Age"

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"It is a span of five hundred years from Dante’s Divine Comedy through Goethe’s Faust, Part Two [1321-1832], an era that gives us a huge body of reading in five major literatures: Italian, Spanish, English, French, and German." (p. 534) Bloom’s <i>The Western Canon</i>

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    The New Life
    by Dante

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    Petrarchs Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics
    by Francesco Petrarch

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    Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works
    by Francesco Petrarch

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    The Decameron (Signet Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio

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    Orlando Innamorato/Orlando in Love
    by Matteo Maria Boiardo

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    Orlando Furioso (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ludovico Ariosto

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    Sonnets and Madrigals
    by Michelangelo Buonarroti

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    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

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    The Mandrake.
    by Niccolo Machiavelli

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    The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Leonardo da Vinci

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    The Book of the Courtier (Dover Value Editions)
    by Baldassare Castiglione

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    Stampa's Sonnets and Madrigals

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    Lives of the Painters (Everyman's Library)
    by Gilorgio Vasari

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    The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
    by Benvenuto Cellini

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    Jerusalem Delivered; An Heroic Poem
    by Torquato Tasso

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    The Expulsion Of The Triumphant Beast
    by Giordano Bruno

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    The City of the Sun
    by Tommaso Campanella

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    Poems of Tommaso Campanella

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    Principles of a New Science
    by Giambattista Vico

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    The Servant of Two Masters
    by Carlo Goldoni

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    Saul
    by Vittorio Alfieri

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    The Lusiads (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Luis Vaz de Camoes

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    Poetry of Antonio Ferreira

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    Coplas
    by J. Manrique

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    LA Celestina
    by fernando De Rojas

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    Visions, (Centaur classics)
    by Francisco de Quevedo

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    Satirical Letters of Censure
    by Francisco de Quevedo

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    Poems of Fray Luis de Leon

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    The Poems of St. John of the Cross
    by St. John of the Cross

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    Les sonnets
    by Gongora

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    Gongora: Soledades (Spanish Texts Series) (Spanish Texts Series)
    by Luis De Gbongora Y. Argote

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    Don Quixote (P.S.)
    by Miguel de Cervantes

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    Exemplary Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Miguel Cervantes

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    LA Dorotea
    by Lope De Vega

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    Fuente Ovejuna/Lost in a Mirror
    by Lope de Vega

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    The Knight of Olmedo
    by Lope Felix De Vega Carpio

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    The Trickster of Seville
    by Tirso de Molina

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    Life Is a Dream/La Vida es Sueno: A Dual-Language Book
    by Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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    The Mayor of Zalamea
    by Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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    The Mighty Magician
    by Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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    The Doctor of His Own Honor
    by Pedro Calderon de la Barca

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    The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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    Troilus and Criseyde (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer

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    Le Morte D'Arthur: Complete, Unabridged, Illustrated Edition
    by Sir Thomas Malory

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    The Poems of William Dunbar (Oxford English Texts)
    by William Dunbar

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    John Skelton, the Complete English Poems (English Poets)
    by John Skelton

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    Utopia: Thomas More
    by Thomas More

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