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 .

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