Bill Burgwinkle of King’s College, Cambridge writes that “The publication of this lively and accurate translation of the thirteenth-century chanson de geste (epic) Huon de Bordeaux calls for some rejoicing.… This is an altogether excellent and welcome addition to the medieval library in English, and we hope that Italica Press and these translators might someday consider furnishing others in the same vein.”
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Italica Press announces its next title in its Italian Crime Writers Series.
In this second book in the PI Giorgia Cantini series, she investigates the disappearance of Vanessa Liverani, a high-class call girl. There Giorgia uncovers a sordid world of prosperous businessmen, doctors, and lawyers who hire prostitutes for private sex parties.
Much of Nowhere Fast takes place in Bologna and among the sandstone cliffs of Contrafforte Pliocenico Natural Reserve. But even there, Giorgia fails to find an idyllic existence as she gets to know Vanessa Liverani’s family, whose troubled lives remain rooted in the traditions and rhythms of rural life. Between these two worlds, Vanessa’s young son Willy is trapped, surrounded by family but tragically on his own.
Meanwhile, Giorgia herself struggles between memories of her unruly and joyous youth and the bitter realities of her adult life. For Giorgia, growing up is a layer of ice slowly spreading over our ability to have strong feelings and authentic personal lives.
Introduction, first English translation. 192 pp.
Although performances of dramatic works in Florence often featured intermedi — entr’acte musical compositions — in many cases the music composed for them exists only in fragments. But this play is almost unique in the history of the Italian Renaissance theater and music because the intermedio materials survive in their entirety.
The volume includes scholarly editions of Francesco D’Ambra’s and Ugo Martelli’s original Italian texts. Vanni Bramanti uses all the relevant primary sources and provides a critical apparatus to the text and an introduction to the playwright and the play. Linda L. Carroll presents an authoritative facing English annotated translation of the text.
It also offers Alexander Dean’s edition of the entr’acte music and Anthony M. Cummings’ introduction to poet Ugo Martelli’s and composer Francesco Corteccia’s entr’actes.
The Theft is the latest addition to Italica's series of Renaissance and Modern Plays.
Dual-language drama. Preface, introductions, plot summary, appendix, notes, and bibliography. 324 pages.
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