A team of four authors examine the methods and results created by the major geometers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, for upper-level undergraduate students of mathematics. Students are presumed to know the foundational elements of projective geometry and the geometry of projective space and its subspaces, and to be familiar with the elements of analysis and the basic structures of algebra. A coursed based on the text could serve as a foundation for more advanced study at the graduate level. The original Letture su curve, superficie e varietà proiettive speciali--Un'introduzione alla geometria algebrica was published by Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, in 2003. The translation is by Francis Sullivan. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)