We are pleased to announce the publication of Michael A.H. Newth’s first modern English translation of Fierabras and Floripas: A French Epic Allegory. This was the most successful French epic tale — or chanson de geste — among audiences in medieval England, not excluding the great Song of Roland, and it continued to resonate through the work of Rabelais, Cervantes, and into the 20th century. This translation continues Italica’s successful collaboration begun with Newth’s Aymeri of Narbonne: A French Epic Romance.
We will soon also be publishing the first English edition of the medieval French epic romance, Elye de Saint Gille. This dual-language text has been edited and translated by A. Richard Hartman and Sandra C. Malicote.
We are happy to report the great success of the first English edition of Fencing: A Renaissance Treatise by Camillo Agrippa, translated and edited by Ken Mondschein. Agrippa’s work is one of the most important texts in the history of European martial arts — and a milestone of Renaissance intellectual history — and Mondschein’s translation and edition set an equally high standard.
An important addition to our Studies in Art and History has been published. Medieval Renaissance Baroque: A Cat’s Cradle in Honor of Marilyn Aronberg Lavin celebrates this renowned scholar’s breakthrough achievements in both the print and digital realms of art and cultural history. Fifteen friends and colleagues present tributes and essays that reflect every facet of Lavin’s brilliant career.
We’re very pleased to announce the publication of Caroline Bruzelius’ Art History: Naples in the High and Late Middle Ages. This is the first comprehensive review of the city’s architecture, art and urban development in the high and late Middle Ages in English since the author’s The Stones of Naples.
William Tronzo’s Art History: Naples in the Early Middle Ages is now in production and will be available soon.
Meanwhile, the history chapters of A Documentary History of Naples. Vol. 2: Medieval Naples, 400–1400 make steady progress. Please have a look at our progress to date and subscribe to our Status postings.
The first edition of our The Pilgrim’s Way to St. Patrick’s Purgatory is now available online. This traces a cross-boundary route for the modern pilgrim from Dublin to Lough Derg in County Donegal. It brings pilgrims on a journey through the medieval past and the fragmentary riches that remain, providing a cultural itinerary that can be travelled by car or bike, on foot, and even partly by boat, through one of the loveliest landscapes of Ireland and Europe.
It is enhanced with descriptive text, photos, plans and elevations, bibliography and Eileen Gardiner’s analysis of the pilgrimage phenomenon, including her “Taxonomy of Medieval Pilgrimage.”
Please subscribe to our Status postings. This site is only one part of Eileen Gardiner’s ongoing Hell-on-Line.
Aldo S. and Reta Bernardo continue their — and Italica Press’s — work on Petrarch with the first English translation and edition of the pseudo-Petrarch Lives of the Popes and Emperors, completed c. 1534. The book will be introduced, with notes, by Tania Zampini.
Please see the Italica Digital Library for an expanding list of e-book versions of books, chapters, stories and essays in both Kindle and downloadable PDF formats.
Italica Press now publishes more broadly than it has in the past to reflect our interest in new subjects and fields. If you are an author, editor or translator thinking of publishing with us, please have a look at our updated Submission Guidelines.
We remind readers that our complete Catalog is also available for download and printing.
Our Winter 2010 Home Page offers a bird’s eye view of Naples from Castel Sant’Elmo past the Certosa of San Martino and the Bay of Naples toward Mount Vesuvius.
