Europa Compass (28 Listed volumes)
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Massimo Recalcati
The Night in Gethsemane
In The Night in Gethsemane, Massimo Recalcati, one of Italy’s most highly regarded psychoanalysts, traces the relationship between biblical text and psychoanalytical theory, revealing human life in all its fragility and its agony. -
Jean-Claude Izzo
Garlic, Mint, & Sweet Basil
In a newly designed package, a reissue of one of the most heartbreaking and heartfelt books on the cultures of the Mediterranean ever written. -
Piero Boitani
A New Sublime
Boitani’s presentation of the classics is as entertaining and unexpected as it is informative. He invites the reader to discover the timeless beauty and wisdom of ancient literature, highlighting its profound and surprising connections to the present. -
Sylvain Tesson
Berezina
Take four friends, put them on two Ural motorcycles (complete with sidecars), send them off on a 2,500-mile odyssey retracing history’s most famous retreat, add what some might consider an excessive amount of Vodka, and you’vegot Sylvain Tesson’s Berezina, a riotous and erudite book that combines... -
Andrea Marcolongo
The Ingenious Language
For word nerds, language loons, and grammar geeks, an impassioned and informative literary leap into the wonders of the Greek language. -
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Fernand Braudel
Out of Italy
Two Centuries of World Domination and Demise In the fifteenth century, even before the city states of the Apennine Peninsula began to coalesce into what would become, several centuries later, a nation, “Italy” exerted enormous influence over all of Europe and throughout the Mediterranean. -
Antoine Compagnon
A Summer with Montaigne
On the Art of Living Well In his writing and his person, Michel de Montaigne embodied the Humanist ideal. He stands at the start of the French Renaissance in philosophy and literature. But what does Montaigne have to tell us about how to think and live today? In forty short and lively...