Mediaevistik Review and Publishers’ Note

We call readers’ attention to a new review by Prof. Albrecht Classen of C. Stephen Jaeger’s Medieval Humanism: Collected Essays that has just been published in Mediaevistik. We thank Prof. Classen for his largely positive review but add a note to the review posted here that clarifies what we view as some oversights in the review.

We invite our readers to read both the review and our Publishers’ Note.

 

Catalog 63, Winter 2026, Now Available for Download

Our Catalog 63, Winter 2026, is now available for download. It presents our entire backlist, with all pricing and ordering information, and all our current series offerings. This season we offer seven new and recent titles ranging from intellectual, architectural, and urban history to cosmological and geographical work, Renaissance drama, dual-language poetry, a contemporary novel, and Italian crime fiction. 

Please have a look.

Gregorio Dati, La Sfera / The Globe Published

Italica Press  is happy to announce the publication of Gregorio Dati's La Sfera /The Globe,

This volume presents the complete text of La Sfera, a parallel English translation, and an array of images from its manuscript tradition.

Seven authors examine the  intellectual and literary genres that influenced Dati, including mapping traditions, medieval cosmology, geography, and natural science, and the traditions of vernacular composition. Their academic disciplines include history, the history of science, literary history, textual criticism, and paleography.

This illustrated edition reproduces images from its many different manuscripts to give readers a clear understanding of Dati’s holistic approach to fifteenth-century poetry, science, art, commerce, and cartography.

Preface, Introduction, complete Italian text of La Sfera with parallel English translation, Notes to the Text and to the Figures, Bibliography, Index. 55 color manuscript images, 1 greyscale image, 1 table, 2 new maps.

Edited by Carrie Beneš, Laura Ingallinella, Laura Morreale, Caterina Agostini, Winston Black, Elena Brizio, and Monica Keane.

History, history of science & literature, cartography, manuscript studies.

Please have a look at: http://www.italicapress.com/index600.html .

Grazia Deledda's The Mother Published

We are happy to announce the publication of a new English translation of Grazia Deledda’s The Mother (La Madre, 1920) by Martha Witt and Mary Ann Frese Witt.

Set in the small Sardinian village of Aar, The Mother powerfully reveals a very contemporary crisis of moral certitude and a spiritual unraveling that leads to unexpected consequences.

D.H. Lawrence alerted English-language readers to Deledda when he wrote the preface to an early translation of La Madre, one of her most important works. However, he failed to understand her power to remain an enduring literary figure. Her ability to blend seemingly ancient morals and codes with the most modern concerns continues to attract readers almost a century after her death.

Please have a look at: http://www.italicapress.com/index598.html

Speculum Review for Huon of Bordeaux

Huon of Bordeaux, translated for the first time into English by Catherine M. Jones and William W. Kibler, has just received a glowing review in Speculum, the pre-eminent journal of medieval studies. 

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.”

Please have a look at: http://www.italicapress.com/index532.html.