Pascoli’s Songs of Castelvecchio Published

We’re happy to announce the publication of Giovanni Pascoli’s Songs of Castelvecchio (Canti di Castelvecchio) in a new complete English translation by Elena Borelli and Stephen Campiglio.

Songs of Castelvecchio is an epic of the countryside and of humanity’s place among the cycle of seasons. Pascoli weaves into the Songs his own autobiographical experience of loss, trauma, and closure. Castelvecchio becomes a symbolic space where past and present coexist, where the poet revisits and relives such emotional moments.

Despite Songs of Castelvecchio’s powerful influence on Anglophone poetry, fewer than a third of the poems in this collection have ever appeared previously in English. Here, for the first time, we present a new translation of the complete work.

“One of the greatest poets of all times.” — Seamus Heaney

Songs of Castelvecchio is the third of Pascoli’s works published by Italica Press and is the newest title in our Poetry in Translation series.

Tronzo, Four Mediterranean Capitals Published

We are happy to announce the publication of William Tronzo's Four Mediterranean Capitals: Rome, Constantinople, Palermo, Venice. Essays in Architecture and Visual Experience.

Tronzo brings together insights into four major late ancient and medieval capitals — Rome, Constantinople, Palermo, and Venice — to uncover their common visual vocabulary of civic space, architecture, and symbolic meaning. Drawing on decades of his own and others’ previous research and publication, he offers new approaches into well-known urban contexts and architectural settings, delving into the viewer’s experience of mosaic, sculpture, drapery, revetment and stone, of wall, dome, and portal, of street and forum to reexamine how historic buildings helped shape the experience of the civic, the imperial, and the divine manifested in urban life and daily movement.

218 pages, 68 color and b&w images, introduction, notes, bibliography, index.

A new title in Italica’s Studies in Art & History series.

 

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 .