Books published by Italica Press

""Huon of Bordeaux" is the first modern English translation of the late thirteenth-century Old French epic poem. This "chanson de geste" follows the exploits of a medieval knight wrongly exiled from Charlemagne's court. Includes introduction, notes, bibliography, glossary, and list of characters"--

""Huon of Bordeaux" is the first modern English translation of the late thirteenth-century Old French epic poem. This "chanson de geste" follows the exploits of a medieval knight wrongly exiled from Charlemagne's court. Includes introduction, notes, bibliography, glossary, and list of characters"--

Naples was a major center of the Italian Renaissance and capital of the most important state in the Italian balance of power. Under the late Angevins, the Aragonese, and then the Spanish the city grew ever more important as a focus of political and military power, as an exemplar of early modern urbanism, and as a driver of intellectual and cultural life rivaling Florence, Rome, and Venice. It both attracted and nurtured generations of writers, theorists, painters, sculptors, architects and urban planners, whose legacy still graces this city and makes it a major modern attraction.Charlotte Nichols and James H. Mc Gregor offer the first comprehensive English-language collection of sources to treat the city of Naples from the end of the medieval to the early modern period. This book presents 169 readings in English translation drawn from historical, biographical, financial, literary, artistic, religious and cultural documents starting with the later Angevin dynasty and ending at the 17th century.The Introduction provides an up-to-date survey of the period covered with discussions of the historiography and interpretive issues around each major topic, including the humanists, urbanism, architecture, the visual arts, and literary life.This volume presents new English translations of several works. Among these are Giovanni Pontano's The Prince, On Magnificence, and selections from On Splendor; Pietro Summonte's letter to Marcantonio Michiel surveying the condition of the arts and culture in Renaissance Naples; and Loise de Rosa's Praise of Naples. This book also offers extensive selections from a wide variety of authors ranging from Valla, Facio, Panormita, Sannazaro, and Masuccio Salernitano to Notar Giacomo, Ferraiolo, Tansillo, Tasso, Vasari, and important women writers like Vittoria Colonna, Isabella de Morra, and Laura Bacio Terracina.558 pages, 169 readings, preface, introduction, notes and bibliography, appendices, including the Tavola Strozzi with key, Map of Renaissance Naples with thumbnail key, index.86 black-and-white figures, plus 48 thumbnail views. Links to online resources from A Documentary History of Naples, including image galleries with 417 additional images in full color.History, art history, literary history, cultural history, urban studies.

Naples was a major center of the Italian Renaissance and capital of the most important state in the Italian balance of power. Under the late Angevins, the Aragonese, and then the Spanish the city grew ever more important as a focus of political and military power, as an exemplar of early modern urbanism, and as a driver of intellectual and cultural life rivaling Florence, Rome, and Venice. It both attracted and nurtured generations of writers, theorists, painters, sculptors, architects and urban planners, whose legacy still graces this city and makes it a major modern attraction.Charlotte Nichols and James H. Mc Gregor offer the first comprehensive English-language collection of sources to treat the city of Naples from the end of the medieval to the early modern period. This book presents 169 readings in English translation drawn from historical, biographical, financial, literary, artistic, religious and cultural documents starting with the later Angevin dynasty and ending at the 17th century.The Introduction provides an up-to-date survey of the period covered with discussions of the historiography and interpretive issues around each major topic, including the humanists, urbanism, architecture, the visual arts, and literary life.This volume presents new English translations of several works. Among these are Giovanni Pontano's The Prince, On Magnificence, and selections from On Splendor; Pietro Summonte's letter to Marcantonio Michiel surveying the condition of the arts and culture in Renaissance Naples; and Loise de Rosa's Praise of Naples. This book also offers extensive selections from a wide variety of authors ranging from Valla, Facio, Panormita, Sannazaro, and Masuccio Salernitano to Notar Giacomo, Ferraiolo, Tansillo, Tasso, Vasari, and important women writers like Vittoria Colonna, Isabella de Morra, and Laura Bacio Terracina.558 pages, 169 readings, preface, introduction, notes and bibliography, appendices, including the Tavola Strozzi with key, Map of Renaissance Naples with thumbnail key, index.86 black-and-white figures, plus 48 thumbnail views. Links to online resources from A Documentary History of Naples, including image galleries with 417 additional images in full color.History, art history, literary history, cultural history, urban studies.

The pilgrimage route to Compostela is graced with an exceptional witness from its early days: the Liber Sancti Jacobi or Book of Saint James. This book is found most famously in a twelfth-century manuscript from the library of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as well as in various other manuscripts. The text provides an encyclopedia on Saint James the Great and on the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, the traditional site of his burial in Galicia in northwestern Spain.Of the five books included in the manuscript, Books 2 and 3, published here in English translation, deal directly with the cult surrounding Saint James. In twenty-two chapters, Book 2 recounts twenty-five of the miracles attributed to the saint after his death. These occurred across a wide geographic area between the years 1100 and 1135. Although these represent a limited period, it is a very important one in the development of the cult of Saint James and the establishment of his cult site at Compostela.Book 3 gathers elements from a variety of sources and weaves them together into a prologue and four chapters describing the transfer of Saint James's body to Santiago de Compostela from the Holy Land, where legend says he was beheaded by Herod.Together these two books of the Liber Sancti Jacobi provide a comprehensive description of the power and importance of the saint, reflecting his significance and the significance of Santiago de Compostela as one of the three major Christian pilgrimage sites during the Middle Ages.230 pages. Preface, introduction, notes, bibliography, index, and illustrations.

The pilgrimage route to Compostela is graced with an exceptional witness from its early days: the Liber Sancti Jacobi or Book of Saint James. This book is found most famously in a twelfth-century manuscript from the library of the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, as well as in various other manuscripts. The text provides an encyclopedia on Saint James the Great and on the pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, the traditional site of his burial in Galicia in northwestern Spain.Of the five books included in the manuscript, Books 2 and 3, published here in English translation, deal directly with the cult surrounding Saint James. In twenty-two chapters, Book 2 recounts twenty-five of the miracles attributed to the saint after his death. These occurred across a wide geographic area between the years 1100 and 1135. Although these represent a limited period, it is a very important one in the development of the cult of Saint James and the establishment of his cult site at Compostela.Book 3 gathers elements from a variety of sources and weaves them together into a prologue and four chapters describing the transfer of Saint James's body to Santiago de Compostela from the Holy Land, where legend says he was beheaded by Herod.Together these two books of the Liber Sancti Jacobi provide a comprehensive description of the power and importance of the saint, reflecting his significance and the significance of Santiago de Compostela as one of the three major Christian pilgrimage sites during the Middle Ages.230 pages. Preface, introduction, notes, bibliography, index, and illustrations.

The articles in "Patronage, Gender & the Arts in Early Modern Italy" celebrate the work and legacy of Carolyn Valone, professor of Art History, teacher, mentor and friend to many. Valone's publications on "matrons as patrons" and "pie donne" became influential, ground-breaking work in the 1990s. Her continuing research on women as patrons of art and architecture has pioneered a methodological approach that many scholars have followed. Contributions include: Katherine A. McIver & Cynthia Stollhans, Introduction. Brenda Preyer, The "Wife's Room" in Florentine Palaces of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. Katherine A. McIver, Locating Power: Women in the Urban Fabric of Sixteenth-Century Rome. Kimberly L. Dennis, A Palace Built by a Princess? Olimpia Maidalchini Pamphilj and the Construction of Palazzo Pamphilj in Piazza Navona. Lisa Passaglia Bauman, The Rhetoric of Power: Della Rovere Palaces and Processional Routes in Late Fifteenth-Century Rome. Sheila ffolliott, Artemisia Conquers Rhodes: Problems in the Representation of Female Heroics in the Age of Catherine de' Medici. Anne¿Jacobson Schutte, Elite Matrons as Founders of Religious Institutions: Ludovica Torelli and Eleonora Ramirez Montalvo. Marilyn Dunn, Nuns, Agents and Agency: Art Patronage in the Post-Tridentine Convent. Kimberlyn Montford, Musical Marketing in the Female Monasteries of Early Modern Rome. Suzanne B. Butters, A Monster's Plea. Meghan Callahan, Preaching in a Poor Space: Savonarolan Influence at Sister Domenica's Convent of la Crocetta in Renaissance Florence. Cynthia Stollhans, The Pious Act of an Impious Woman: The Courtesan Fiammetta as Art Patron in Renaissance Rome. Elizabeth S. Cohen, More Trials for Artemisia Gentileschi: Her Life, Love and Letters in 1620. Michael Sherberg, Mr. Cellini Goes to Rome. Craig A. Monson, "Un Monsignore troppo abbondo contro le monache": Alfonso Paleotti Meets His Match. Gretchen E. Meyers, Suis manibus fecerat: Queen Dido as a Producer of Ceremonial Textiles. Elissa Weaver, What to Wear in the Decameron and Why It Matters. Includes a Bibliography of Carolyn Valone's Works and a Complete Index. History of art, cultural history, urban studies. 376 pages, 53 illustrations. Katherine A. McIver, one of the editors of this volume, is Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Alabama, Birmingham. She is the author of "Women, Art, and Architecture in Northern Italy, 1520-1580: Negotiating Power" (Ashgate, 2006, winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Award), editor of, and contributor to, "Art and Music in the Early Modern Period" (Ashgate, 2003) and of "Wives, Widows, Mistresses," and "Nuns in Early Modern Italy: Making the Invisible Visible through Art and Patronage" (Ashgate, 2012). She is co-editor of and contributor to "The Ashgate Research Companion to Women and Gender in Early Modern Europe" (2013), and of "Sexualities, Textualities, Art and Music in Early Modern Italy" (Ashgate, 2014). She has also published articles and essays on the artistic patronage of women and about food and dining in Renaissance Italy. Cynthia Stollhans, an editor of this volume, received an M.A. in Art History from Saint Louis University, working under Carolyn Valone, and a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, working under Olan Rand (with Dr. Valone as a reader). She is now Professor of Art History at Saint Louis University, where she teaches a variety of courses in Italian Renaissance Art. She is the author of "St. Catherine of Alexandria in Renaissance Art: Case Studies in Patronage" (Ashgate, 2014) and has published in a variety of journals, including "The Sixteenth Century Journal," "Women's Art Journal" and "Early Modern Women: An International Journal." Currently, she works on Borgia courtesans and mistresses as art patrons in early modern Rome.