**It’s fun to boast somewhere of one’s book hauls, so here it is for the March 8 and 9 2024 last splurge i’ll ever do, because now i need to seriously save money on a regular monthly basis.**
**1 – Leopardi’s Moral Fables (earlier got a bilingual Canti edition Jonathan Galassi trans.)**
**2 – Orlando Furioso – Ludivico Ariosto trans. by Guido Waldman**
**3 – Petrarch’s Letters and other works The Petrarch Project, looks like the best way to go, had recently gotten The Canzoniere trans. by Mark Musa**
**4 – Geoffrey Wolff’s Black Sun, which led me to get all i can of Harry Crosby some in physical format, of diaries, poetry, and some Caresse Crosby, and Malcolm Cowley’s Exile’s Return**
**5 – John Evelyn’s Diary along with a bio by John Dixon Hunt, this looks like a more down to earth version of Pepys, which i have and never really knew as much as i do now about him, and so will probably dual read these two fellas**
**6 – Anne Carson’s Wrong Norma upon seeing Leaf by Leaf’s video on it**
**7 – Emily Wilson’s translations of Homer’s The Illiad and The Odyssey plus their respective audiobooks, speaking of audiobooks i snapped up the Arthur Miller collection from LATW**
**8 – The Adventures of Simplicius Simplicissimus – Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, J. A. Underwood – classic war literature the kind with a pizzazz**
**9 – The Manuscript Found in Saragossa – Jan Potocki, Ian MacLean – i love the movie which Luis Bunuel loved a lot too**
**10 – Conversations with Goethe – Johann Peter Eckermann, Ritchie Robertson, Allan Blunden – i grinned when i saw a quote from Nietzsche saying “The best German book there is” or something like that, well hell yeah, i’m ready to get down with GOETHE, i picked up a 2nd good translation of Faust recently as well by Martin Greenberg**
**11 – Confessions of an Italian – Ippolito Nievo, Lucy Riall, Frederika Randall – a more racy book from the time of the next one.**
**12 – The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni, Michael F. Moore – i was torn between translation choices, but thought the more recent one has the edge maybe. This is a fave of the Pope’s btw**
**13 – Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated) (Series Six Book 8)**
**14 – Delphi Complete Works of Walter Pater (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Eight Book 17)**
**15 – Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black – Cookie Mueller, Hedi El Kholti, Chris Kraus, Amy Scholder, Olivia Laing – something a John Waters fan needs**
**16 – Clairvoyant of the Small: The Life of Robert Walser – Susan Bernofsky**
**and 5 short story collections translated by SB, i have most and more in physical format, RW is imo the most delightful prose writer i’ve ever read, well at least that is what i would usually say … first heard of him in a little booklet from a DVD collection of The Brothers Quay short films, from Zeitgeist, they adapted Jakob von Gunten, i didn’t get the ebook of that however, as i need especially just his short stories, and however i LOVE The Robber which isn’t on kindle i would have gotten that if i could have.**
**17 – The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works – Thomas Nashe, J. Steane**
**looks like an interesting and unusual Elizabethan writer, the cover shows people hanging from nooses on a tree branch in a woodcut kind of image.**
**18 – 6 volumes of Samuel Beckett, the fill out his bibliography, recently got the edition of all his Plays**
**19 – The Sagas of the Icelanders: (penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) – Jane Smilely – my favorite pop artist came from Iceland, so it’ll be for that of coarse, but also for it’s mighty standing in world literature, plus Guy Maddin drew a lot of sustenance from this for his debut feature Tales from the Gimli Hospital, a movie i adore to bits.**
**20 – Aristophanes: Four Plays: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly — Aaron Poochigian — had recently got a complete plays translated by Paul Roche, but this looks new and exciting**
**21 – Torquato Tasso’s The Liberation of Jerusalem trans. by Max Wickert – will this be what was quoted from in that infamous slaughterhouse scene in Fassbinder’s greatest film? I’ll find out, it’ll be a great easter egg for me.**
**22 – Women of the Left Bank: Paris, 1900-1940 – Shari Benstock – a tantalizing cornucopia of names to see if i can find books by them, i love to torture myself when i’ve vowed not to splurge ever again.**
**23 – The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa, Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, Archibald Colquhoun – like many i’m an admirer of the Visconti film, so this should be a treat, this is the last splurge so i’m a goin’ cray cray**
**24 – Vita Nuovo – Dante Alighieri, Mark Musa – also Inferno trans. by Stanley Lombardo**
**25 – The English Civil War: A People’s History (Text Only) – Diane Purkiss – looks like an iconic title, as well as The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas During the English Revolution by Christopher Hill**
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