I Am a Line of Words: Drawing Identity Across Cultures Diné, Pima, and Italian Visual Languages

Dante Alighieri's epic 14th-century poem describing his journey through Hell (Inferno), Purgatory (Purgatorio), and Paradise (Paradiso). This foundational work of Western literature presents an allegorical vision of the soul's journey toward God while exploring themes of divine justice, redemption, and the human condition.

A visual interpretation of Dante's epic poem, translating the medieval journey through the afterlife into illustrated format, making the classic text more accessible to contemporary readers through the combination of artwork and narrative.

This Norton Critical Edition includes Fifty-five judiciously chosen stories from Wayne A. Rebhorn's translation of The Decameron.

John Ciardi's brilliant and authoritative translations of Dante's three soaring canticles--The Inferno, The Purgatorio, and The Paradiso--have been gathered together in a single volume. Crystallizing the power and beauty inherent in the great poet's immortal conception of the aspiring soul, The Divine Comedy is a dazzling work of sublime truth and mystical intensity.

Accompanying the exhibition at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, this catalog explores one of the most important artists of the Renaissance.

A photographic documentation of Milan's urban landscape during a transformative decade. Basilico captures the city's public housing developments, working-class neighborhoods, and industrial spaces, revealing the social and architectural stratification of the changing metropolitan environment.

Basilico photographs places which are suspended in time, without a history or a future, and this indetermination is precisely where their beauty and interest lay.

Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography based on thousands of pages from Leonardo da Vinci's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work.

This volume demonstrates how the methodologies of cultural anthropology, aesthetics, conservation, political theory, and literary analysis, among others, can be successfully applied to the study of sculpture.

Before Gucci, Prada, and Versace, a new wave of trailblazing Italian designers laid the groundwork for the global fashion empire we know today. In The Origins of Italian Fashion: 1900-1945, acclaimed fashion historian Sofia Gnoli masterfully traces this pivotal, often-overlooked era.

A bilingual collection featuring contemporary Italian poetry by Ferruccio Benzoni (1949-1997), exploring themes of love, nature, memory, solitude, and death. The translations capture Benzoni's blend of romantic sensibility and modernist technique as he documents the changing urban landscape and personal relationships in late 20th-century Italy.

David Young's fresh, idiomatic version of Petrarch's poetry is the most readable and approachable that we have. In his skillful hands, Petrarch almost sounds like a poet out of our own tradition bringing the wheel of influence full circle.

Jhumpa Lahiri's stories steeped in the moods of Italian master Alberto Moravia and guided, in the concluding tale, by the ineluctable ghost of Dante Alighieri, whose words lead the protagonist toward a new way of life.

A photographic tribute to Italian cinema icon Sophia Loren, documenting her impact on film and popular culture through imagery that captures her career and legacy in Italian and international cinema.

A critical examination of Vasco Rossi's cultural significance in Italian rock and pop music. Written by prominent critics including Edmondo Berselli, the book analyzes Rossi as a unique phenomenon who has reflected the sentiments of millions of Italians across generations through his role as a "rebel philosopher."

A comprehensive analysis of Italian rock star Vasco Rossi's musical repertoire, tracing the stories behind his songs from his early years in Zocca and Bologna through over 30 official albums. The book contextualizes more than 150 songs, examining both the music and the life experiences that shaped his artistic evolution.

Gloria Jane Bell reveals the tenacity, mobility, and reception of Indigenous artists, travelers, and activists in 1920s Rome. Animating these conjunctures, the book foregrounds competing claims to sovereignty from Indigenous and papal perspectives.

The only how-to book on Navajo weaving told by Navajo weavers. Navajo blankets, rugs, and tapestries are the best-known, most-admired, and most-collected textiles in North America.

This magnificent volume focuses on nearly 60 works completed in the last decade, including culturally adorned punching bags, three-dimensional figurative works, text-based wall hangings, painted works on rawhide and canvas, and light and video works.

"Lines from a Mined Mind" brings together lyrics and musings from the twenty-five-year recording career of John Trudell, an internationally acclaimed poet, musician, and leader of the American Indian Movement. More than a simple anthology, this collection goes deeper, revealing the incendiary intersection of music and activism.

An exploration of the Martinez family's ceramic artistry heritage, documenting traditional pottery techniques and artistic innovation passed down through five generations of Native American potters.

A fascinating self-portrait of the fairy-tale life of a woman who understood that a committed talent could transform the world around her. "Maria Tallchief and American ballet came of age in the same moment.... Her story will always be the story of ballet conquering America. It was and is an American romance."-Arlene Croce, The New Yorker

A collection showcasing contemporary artistic expressions by modern North American Indigenous artists, highlighting how Native artists interpret traditional cultural themes through innovative and contemporary artistic mediums and perspectives.

Coyote, Eagle-man, quail, bear, and other charaters relate their adventures in two dozen delightful tales Anna Shaw heard her father tell when she was young. The author, a Pima herself, unfolds twenty-four charming Indian tales as passed down from generation to generation. Simple, and beautiful in design and content. A delight for all ages.

Anna Moore Shaw's autobiographical account of Akimel O'odham (Pima) life on Arizona reservations at the turn of the 20th century. Shaw documents traditional tribal customs, family structures, spiritual practices, and the challenges faced by Native Americans navigating between indigenous traditions and European-American culture.

Music historian Craig Harris explores more than five hundred years of Indigenous history, religion, and cultural evolution in Rise Up! Indigenous Music in North America.

Musician, Poet, Prophet. John Trudell's disquieting voice has the power to give ears to the heart. Like most natives raised on a reservation, his early years were a case of living in America but outside of the "American Dream".

A biography of the Tewa Indian woman who revived the dying art of her people, ceramic pottery, and shared her knowledge of pottery making with others.

The Native American activist recounts his struggle for Indian self-determination, his periods in prison, and his spiritual awakening.