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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  2. 2.
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    The New Life
    by Dante
  3. 3.
    Petrarch's Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics
    by Francesco Petrarch
  4. 4.
    Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works
    by Francesco Petrarch
  5. 5.
    The Decameron (Signet Classics)
    by Giovanni Boccaccio
  6. 6.
    Orlando Innamorato/Orlando in Love
    by Matteo Maria Boiardo
  7. 7.
    Orlando Furioso (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Ludovico Ariosto
  8. 8.
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    Sonnets and Madrigals
    by Michelangelo Buonarroti
  9. 9.
    The Prince
    by Niccolo Machiavelli
  10. 10.
    The Mandrake.
    by translated by Wallace Shawn Niccolo Machiavelli
  11. 11.
    The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Leonardo da Vinci
  12. 12.
    The Book of the Courtier (Dover Value Editions)
    by Baldassare Castiglione
  13. 13.
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    Stampa's Sonnets and Madrigals

  14. 14.
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    Lives of the Painters (Everyman's Library, Vol. 4)
    by Gilorgio Vasari
  15. 15.
    The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
    by Benvenuto Cellini
  16. 16.
    Jerusalem Delivered; An Heroic Poem
    by Torquato Tasso
  17. 17.
    The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast (New Edition)
    by Giordano Bruno
  18. 18.
    The City of the Sun
    by Tommaso Campanella
  19. 19.
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    Poems of Tommaso Campanella

  20. 20.
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    Principles of a New Science
    by Giambattista Vico
  21. 21.
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    The Servant of Two Masters
    by Carlo Goldoni
  22. 22.
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    Saul
    by Vittorio Alfieri
  23. 23.
    The Lusíads (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Luís Vaz de Camões
  24. 24.
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    Poetry of Antonio Ferreira

  25. 25.
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    Coplas
    by J. Manrique
  26. 26.
    La Celestina (Spanish Edition)
    by Fernando de Rojas
  27. 27.
  28. 28.
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    Visions, (Centaur classics)
    by Francisco de Quevedo
  29. 29.
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    Satirical Letters of Censure
    by Francisco de Quevedo
  30. 30.
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    Poems of Fray Luis de Leon

  31. 31.
    The Poems of St. John of the Cross
    by St. John of the Cross
  32. 32.
    Les sonnets
    by Gongora
  33. 33.
    Gongora: Soledades (Spanish Texts Series)
    by Luis de Gongora
  34. 34.
    Don Quixote
    by Miguel De Cervantes
  35. 35.
    Exemplary Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
    by Miguel Cervantes
  36. 36.
    La Dorotea
    by Lope De Vega
  37. 37.
    Fuente Ovejuna/Lost in a Mirror (Absolute Classics)
    by Lope de Vega
  39. 39.
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    The Trickster of Seville
    by Tirso de Molina
  40. 40.
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    The Mayor of Zalamea
    by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
  42. 42.
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    The Mighty Magician
    by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
  43. 43.
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    The Doctor of His Own Honor
    by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
  44. 44.
    The Canterbury Tales
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
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  46. 46.
    Troilus and Criseyde (Penguin Classics)
    by Geoffrey Chaucer
  47. 47.
    Le Morte D'Arthur: Complete, Unabridged, Illustrated Edition
    by Sir Thomas Malory
  48. 48.
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    The Poems of William Dunbar (Oxford English Texts)
    by William Dunbar
  49. 49.
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    John Skelton, the Complete English Poems (English Poets)
    by John Skelton
  50. 50.
    Utopia: Thomas More
    by Thomas More

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