Summer 2010 Catalog Now Online

Our Summer 2010 catalog is now available as a downloadable PDF document. It contains information on all Italica Press publications, including title, author, ISBN, description, pricing, publication date, shipping weight, cover image, and formats. The catalog also contains hyperlinks to title entries on our web site (with complete title information), as well as an order form. The catalog may be viewed on screen or downloaded, printed, e-mailed or mailed to your colleagues or bookbuyers.

Of special note this Summer are several new and forthcoming titles. Foremost among these is Eileen Gardiner’s The Pilgrim’s Way to St. Patrick’s Purgatory, which was published this July.

Forthcoming titles include the chanson de geste, Elye of Saint-Gilles, presented in a dual-language edition with facing French and English. It is edited and translated by A. Richard Hartman and Sandra C. Malicote. Also forthcoming is Bernard André’s The Life of Henry VII, translated with an introduction by Daniel Hobbins.

Worth noting again are three recent publications: Medieval Renaissance Baroque edited by David A. Levine and Jack Freiberg; Camillo Agrippa’s Fencing: A Renaissance Treatise, translated and edited by Ken Mondschein; and Fierabras and Floripas: A French Epic Allegory, translated and introduced by Michael A.H. Newth.

Our titles are available through our own website, through online bookstores like Amazon.com, through your local or campus bookstore, or through e-book vendors and on handhelds, including the Kindle and iPad. Formats include hardcover and paperback, PDF, EPub and Kindle versions. Our titles are also offered through most major distributors. We hope that you will take a look at our offerings, and we look forward to hearing from you.

Gardiner’s Pilgrim’s Way Published

The print and digital editions of Eileen Gardiner’s Pilgrim’s Way to St. Patrick’s Purgatory have now been published. These offer both a complete, up-to-date guide for the modern traveler and pilgrim from Dublin to Lough Derg in northern Ireland, and a detailed analysis of the pilgrimage phenomenon in the Middle Ages, the place of St. Patrick’s Purgatory in both the spiritual geography and the taxonomy of medieval pilgrimage, and a study of the primary sources and historical traditions surrounding the site and medieval routes to it.
Includes an introduction to the topic of medieval pilgrimage and an overview of what the early pilgrims have told us about this route and the site. This book features descriptions of the monuments, relics and saints along the way, as well as a stage-by-stage description of the journey itself. Provides travelers’ information, photos, maps, plans, a bibliography, a chronology, index and links to online resources and photo galleries. The e-book offers full color images and maps, enlargeable images, searchable text and hyperlinks to external resources, including bibliography and other scholarly resources, travel information and details about the sites and towns along the route.


54 photos, 23 maps and plans. 204 pages
ISBN 978-1-59910-187-3 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-59910-167-5 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-59910-164-4 (e-book)


We are also delighted to report that Dr. Gardiner and her work on St. Patrick‘s Purgatory will be featured on a forthcoming History Channel program on portals to the underworld. Stay tuned for details of broadcast dates and times.

James Hester on Mondschein, Fencing: A Renaissance Treatise

We’re happy to report that Ken Mondschein’s translation and edition of Camillo Agrippa’s Fencing: A Renaissance Treatise has just received an outstanding review. James Hester of the Royal Armouries Museum writes, “Fencing historian Ken Mondschein has done the Western martial arts community a great service by translating into English the fencing treatise of the iconic ‘Renaissance man’ turned fencing master, Camillo Agrippa.... This text is a valuable resource for historians, art historians, science historians, and scholars of masculine identity in 16th-century Italy....
“Mondschein succeeds in producing a translation that is modern and accessible without sacrificing the literary flavour of the period in which it was written. It is also heartening to see this text contribute to the growing trend of treating fencing manuals not just as resources for today’s aspiring swordsmen, but also as a useful primary source for in-depth research within the wider academic community.”  
For the full review see De Re Militari.

What’s New at Italica Press

The big news at Italica Press is that we’ve changed our What’s New at Italica page to a blog format. This newer format will allow us to more easily and quickly inform you of forthcoming and new titles and of the status of our ongoing projects. In addition, you’ll also be able to comment, send us suggestions, and subscribe to notices via RSS feeds and other subscriber models.
We hope that you’ll enjoy the new format and will take advantage of its features to help us communicate with you better.
As always, our thanks and appreciation for your continued interest and support.

Eileen Gardiner Publisher	Ronald G. Musto Publisher

Gardiner’s Pilgrim’s Way Now Online

The first edition of Eileen Gardiner’s The Pilgrim’s Way to St. Patrick’s Purgatory is now available online. This traces the medieval pilgrim’s route that began in Dublin and ended at Lough Derg in County Donegal. Today the Pilgrim’s Way stretches across the boundaries of the Irish Republic and Northern Ireland and brings the modern traveller on a journey through the medieval past and the fragmentary riches that remain today. It provides a cultural itinerary that can be travelled by car or bike, on foot, and even partly by boat, through one of the loveliest landscapes of Ireland and Europe.
This online edition is enhanced with descriptive text; analysis of the textual, visual and archaeological evidence; photos, plans and elevations; an interactive map of the route; bibliography and discussion of the European pilgrimage phenomenon, including a “Taxonomy of Medieval Pilgrimage.”
A new print edition will soon be available in both hardcover and paperback. Please subscribe to our Status postings for updates. This site is one part of Eileen Gardiner’s ongoing Hell-on-Line project.