European Studies: Italian Studies (6)

• Biography
• European Studies
• European Studies: Italian Studies
• Literature
• Philosophy

Pietro Giannone. Autobiography. The Tragedy of a Historian and the Inquisition: Translated with commentary by Thérèse Ridley

• Thérèse Ridley

This edition, translated and annotated by Therese Ridley, not only renders the full autobiography accessible to English readers for the first time, but contextualizes it within modern Italian scholarship. Each chapter is enriched with appendices that include critical sources, commentary, and related correspondence, illuminating the people, events, and philosophical struggles that defined Giannone’s world.

• European Studies: Italian Studies
• History of the Book
• Music

Sounding the Bookshelf 1501: Music in a Year of Italian Printed Books

• Tim Shephard
• Oliver Doyle
• Ciara O’Flaherty
• Annabelle Page
• Laura Ştefănescu

This volume explores how everyday texts in Renaissance Italy engaged with music, sound, and hearing. Of the 358 known editions printed in 1501, only a few contained formal music notation or specialist theory. Yet a surprising wealth of musical knowledge emerges from religious texts, classical commentaries, lifestyle guides, poetry, and more. These sources—rarely penned by professional musicians—reflect the broader cultural presence of music in early 16th-century life, touching on themes like music’s moral influence, its role in education, and its scientific understanding.

• European Studies
• European Studies: Italian Studies
• Literature

Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy: Volume 3

• George Corbett
• Heather Webb

This collection in three volumes offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the Dante's Comedy. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante.

• European Studies
• European Studies: Italian Studies
• Literature

Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy: Volume 2

• George Corbett
• Heather Webb

This collection offers an unprecedented repertoire of vertical readings for the whole poem. As the first volume exemplifies, vertical reading not only articulates unexamined connections between the three canticles but also unlocks engaging new ways to enter into core concerns of the poem. The three volumes thereby provide an indispensable resource for scholars, students and enthusiasts of Dante.

• European Studies
• European Studies: Italian Studies
• Literature

Vertical Readings in Dante's Comedy: Volume 1

• George Corbett
• Heather Webb

Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy is a reappraisal of the poem by an international team of thirty-four scholars. Each vertical reading analyses three same-numbered cantos from the three canticles: Inferno i, Purgatorio i and Paradiso i; Inferno ii, Purgatorio ii and Paradiso ii; etc. Although scholars have suggested before that there are correspondences between same-numbered cantos that beg to be explored, this is the first time that the approach has been pursued in a systematic fashion across the poem.

• Asian Studies
• European Studies: Italian Studies
• History
• History of the Book
• Music

The Khan’s Pifferi: Reading about the Musics of Asia in Late Fifteenth-Century Italy

• Tim Shephard
• Chenxi Xiao

FORTHCOMING

This volume explores what Italian readers of the 1480s and 1490s could learn about Asian music through the expanding medium of print.