While Italy proved fertile ground for a Renaissance, the Reformation found rocky soil on Rome’s home turf. Where Michelangelo and da Vinci bore their greatest fruit, Luther and Calvin’s otherwise explosive thought was quickly expunged, after brief initial growth, in the face of an intense Inquisition and a failure to bear fruit among the masses. Collected here are several classic works analyzing two of the most powerful movements in Western history, and their disparate ends on the Italian Peninsula.

Percy Bysshe Shelley was a major English Romantic poet, regarded as one of the finest lyric poets in the English language. Tragucakkym, he died in a shipwreck when he was just 29. His vast poetic powers were extinguished before they reached maturity; nevertheless, his work earned him a place among the greatest poets of England. He was not widely recognized during his lifetime, but was idolized in successive generations by Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, W. B. Yeats, Karl Marx, and Upton Sinclair. The Select Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley collection contains all of Shelley’s published poetry and drama, juvenilia, and translations, as well as four classic biographies from respected literary critics and contemporaries. This collection is an ideal way for students of literature to engage the life and work of the great poet.

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