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Mario Praz
Mario Praz (; 6 September 1896, Rome – 23 March 1982, Rome) was an Italian critic of art and literature, and a scholar of English literature. His best-known book, ''The Romantic Agony'' (1933), was a comprehensive survey of the decadent, erotic and morbid themes that characterised European authors of the late 18th and 19th centuries (see ''Femme fatale'' for a reference of one of his chapters). The book was written and published first in Italian as '''' in 1930; and the most recent edition was published in Florence by Sansoni in 1996.
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The romantic agony 2nd ed. [reissued with corrections];
Published: Oxford U.P., 1970Description: xxv, 479 pages ; 21 cm.Book -
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The romantic agony
Published: Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1933Description: xvii, 454 pages, 1 leaf including frontispiece ; 23 cm.Book -
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Studies in seventeenth-century imagery 2d ed., considerably increased.
Published: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1975Description: 607 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Book -
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The flaming heart : essays on Crashaw, Machiavelli, and other studies in the relations between Italian and English literature from Chaucer to T.S. Eliot [1st ed.]
Published: Doubleday, 1958Description: 390 pages ; 19 cm.Book