Exploring Sixteenth-Century Italy Through the Poems of Giulio Cesare Croce

This volume translates the poems of Giulio Cesare Croce: a sixteenth-century street poet and singer who plied his trade on the bustling streets of Bologna. Though widely popular in his time, Croce's work has been largely neglected by modern scholarship, and his poems remain largely untranslated into English-despite their frequent reference by Italian academics who recognize their value as vivid wi...