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.