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

"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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1. The Divine Comedy: Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso (Everyman's Library)
by Dante Alighieri
  
2.
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 The New Life
by Dante
  
3. Petrarchs Lyric Poems: The Rime Sparse and Other Lyrics
by Francesco Petrarch
  
4. Selections from the Canzoniere and Other Works
by Francesco Petrarch
  
5. The Decameron (Signet Classics)
by Giovanni Boccaccio
  
6. Orlando Innamorato/Orlando in Love
by Matteo Maria Boiardo
  
7. Orlando Furioso (Oxford World's Classics)
by Ludovico Ariosto
  
8.
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 Sonnets and Madrigals
by Michelangelo Buonarroti
  
9. The Prince
by Niccolo Machiavelli
  
10.
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 The Mandrake.
by Niccolo Machiavelli
  
11. The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Oxford World's Classics)
by Leonardo da Vinci
  
12. The Book of the Courtier (Dover Value Editions)
by Baldassare Castiglione
  
13.
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 Stampa's Sonnets and Madrigals  
14.
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 Lives of the Painters (Everyman's Library)
by Gilorgio Vasari
  
15. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
by Benvenuto Cellini
  
16. Jerusalem Delivered; An Heroic Poem
by Torquato Tasso
  
17. The Expulsion Of The Triumphant Beast
by Giordano Bruno
  
18. The City of the Sun
by Tommaso Campanella
  
19.
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 Poems of Tommaso Campanella  
20.
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 Principles of a New Science
by Giambattista Vico
  
21.
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 The Servant of Two Masters
by Carlo Goldoni
  
22.
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 Saul
by Vittorio Alfieri
  
23. The Lusiads (Oxford World's Classics)
by Luis Vaz de Camoes
  
24.
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 Poetry of Antonio Ferreira  
25.
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 Coplas
by J. Manrique
  
26. LA Celestina
by fernando De Rojas
  
27. Lazarillo de Tormes (Dual-Language) (Dual-Language Book)
by Anonymous
  
28.
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 Visions, (Centaur classics)
by Francisco de Quevedo
  
29.
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 Satirical Letters of Censure
by Francisco de Quevedo
  
30.
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 Poems of Fray Luis de Leon  
31. The Poems of St. John of the Cross
by St. John of the Cross
  
32. Les sonnets
by Gongora
  
33. Gongora: Soledades (Spanish Texts Series) (Spanish Texts Series)
by Luis De Gbongora Y. Argote
  
34. Don Quixote (P.S.)
by Miguel de Cervantes
  
35. Exemplary Stories (Oxford World's Classics)
by Miguel Cervantes
  
36.
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 LA Dorotea
by Lope De Vega
  
37. Fuente Ovejuna/Lost in a Mirror
by Lope de Vega
  
38.
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 The Knight of Olmedo
by Lope Felix De Vega Carpio
  
39.
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 The Trickster of Seville
by Tirso de Molina
  
40. Life Is a Dream/La Vida es Sueno: A Dual-Language Book
by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
  
41.
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 The Mayor of Zalamea
by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
  
42.
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 The Mighty Magician
by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
  
43.
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 The Doctor of His Own Honor
by Pedro Calderon de la Barca
  
44. The Canterbury Tales (Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
45.
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 Poems of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz  
46. Troilus and Criseyde (Penguin Classics)
by Geoffrey Chaucer
  
47. Le Morte D'Arthur: Complete, Unabridged, Illustrated Edition
by Sir Thomas Malory
  
48.
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 The Poems of William Dunbar (Oxford English Texts)
by William Dunbar
  
49.
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 John Skelton, the Complete English Poems (English Poets)
by John Skelton
  
50. Utopia: Thomas More
by Thomas More
  
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Created by stagebunny on Oct 27, 2006.