WELCOME to the Autumn 2011 edition of What’s New at Italica Press.
The subject of Naples forms bookends for 2011. At the beginning of the year we published Medieval Naples: An Architectural and Urban History by Caroline Bruzelius and William Tronzo as the next volume of our ongoing A Documentary History of Naples. Now, as the year comes to an end, we are also happy to announce the publication of Ronald G. Musto’s Medieval Naples: A Documentary History 400–1400, Historical Texts. This title is one of Italica’s born-digital works and is now offered exclusively on the Kindle platform for both the Kindle itself and other handhelds, such as the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch. It incorporates all the texts available until now on the Medieval Naples section of our website and adds a new general introduction to the period, its historiography, and important research and interpretive issues. It will soon also be available in hardcover and paperback editions.
Both works take full advantage of digital resources: hyperlinking to complete bibliographical information on WorldCat, to Italica Press image galleries, to external web resources, including digital archives and manuscript collections, online reference works and images, and to our own online bibliographies and Interactive Map of Medieval Naples.
Other medieval and Renaissance works include a new edition of Guido A. Guarino’s translation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s On Famous Women, first published in 1963. This was based on the edition of Mathias Apiarius, printed in Bern in 1539. This new edition includes the original woodcut illustrations of the 1539 Apiarius edition, a new bibliographical note and a select bibliography that brings research on this work up to date.
The third medieval and Renaissance text is a new verse translation, by Michael A.H. Newth, of The Song of Roland. Newth’s new edition — the first in fifty years to preserve the full poetic diction of the medieval composition — recaptures the form, feel and flow of the original work in performance by restoring the genre’s “verbal music” to the Song of Roland. This new translation is also available in a performance edition and as a complete audio book from Audible.com and other audio-book distributors.
Our fourth medieval and Renaissance offering this season is a new dual-language edition of Torquato Tasso’s Love Poems for Lucrezia Bendidio, translated and edited by Max Wickert, whose English verse translation of Tasso’s The Liberation of Jerusalem has already become a critically acclaimed standard. This follows up on Italica’s verse translation of Tasso’s Aminta.
Our fifth medieval and Renaissance title is Bernard André’s The Life of Henry VII, translated with an introduction by Daniel Hobbins.
Finally, as part of our Modern Italian Fiction Series, we present the first English translation, by Martha King, of Gianna Manzini’s Full-Length Portrait (Ritratto in piedi), the prize-winning best-seller by one of Italy’s most important literary voices. It follows Italica’s publication of King’s translation of Manzini’s Game Plan for a Novel (Lettera all’editore).
Italica Press has published all of these titles in both hardcover and paperback editions, and also offers them for the Kindle, iPad and other handhelds.
Forthcoming titles for 2012 include Guido A. Guarino's new, original English-language translation of The Works of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
Our latest catalog is now available as a downloadable PDF document. It contains information on all Italica Press publications, including title, author, description, pricing, publication date, shipping weight, cover image, and formats. The catalog also contains hyperlinks to title entries on our web site (with complete title information), as well as an order form. The catalog may be viewed on screen or downloaded, printed, e-mailed or mailed to your colleagues or bookbuyers.
Our titles are available through our own website, through online bookstores like Amazon, through your local or campus bookstore, or through e-book vendors and on handhelds, including the Kindle and iPad. Formats include hardcover and paperback, PDF, EPub and Kindle versions. Our titles are also offered through most major distributors. We hope that you will take a look at our offerings, and we look forward to hearing from you.
This page is being supplemented by an ongoing What’s New at Italica Press blog page. This newer format will allow us to much more easily and quickly inform you of new and forthcoming titles, and the status of ongoing projects.
As always, our thanks and appreciation.
