The I Tatti Renaissance Library
JOURNALISTS CONTACT:
Contact: Megan Adams, Publicist The I Tatti Renaissance Library Series can be likened, in the words
of in-house editor Jennifer Snodgrass, to "a distant cousin of the Press's
distinguished Loeb Classical Library series." The I Tatti series presents
current scholarship in an attractive and convenient format. Each volume
provides a reliable Latin text together with an accurate, readable English
translation on facing pages, an editor's introduction, notes on the
text, a brief bibliography, and an index. In principle, the series will
publish only complete texts, not excerpts, although it may also publish
volumes consisting of selections from large collected works as well
as thematic volumes containing work from a variety of authors.
Forthcoming volumes include Francesco Petrarch's Secret, Lorenzo Valla's
Dialogues, the Latin poetry of Angelo Poliziano, Flavio Biondo's Rome
Restored, Cristoforo Landino's dialogues on the active and contemplative
lives, Leon Battista Alberti's Momus, and Giannozzo Manetti's Lives
of Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio. The series issues 2-3 new volumes
per year.
The Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance
Studies, was created as a result of a donation by Bernard Berenson,
the eminent historian and art critic. The bequest included his 16th
Century villa near Florence, Italy, with its vast collection of books,
photographs, and works of art. The Villa I Tatti institute is dedicated
to scholarship and the exchange of ideas in a variety of disciplines
within Italian Renaissance studies.
Phone. 617.495.8589
Fax. 617.496.2550
Harvard Publishes Landmark Renaissance Text Series
In Spring 2001, Harvard University Press
launched its distinguished I Tatti Renaissance Library series. The series
is the first and only to make available to a broad readership the major
literary, historical, philosophical, and scientific works--in English
and in Latin--of the Italian Renaissance. Series General Editor James
Hankins (Professor of History at Harvard University) confirms the importance
of this series to scholars worldwide: "No similar comprehensive series
of bilingual Renaissance texts exists. Many of the most basic works, fundamental
to an understanding of the period, are unobtainable or untranslated or
exist only in unsatisfactory or prohibitively expensive editions."
For additional information, please contact Megan Adams, Publicist, Harvard University Press, Phone: 617.495.8589, Email: megan_adams@harvard.edu