Evocations of Italy

Pavel Pavlovich Muratov (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

880 Seiten

2026
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8101-4830-7 (ISBN)

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A collector’s edition of a world-historical classic

In 1907, Pavel Muratov, a budding littÉrateur and art connoisseur from Moscow, set off for Italy with his wife, three friends, and a dozen books on the Italian Renaissance. This journey, the first of over a dozen he would make in a decade, inspired an obsession with the country’s art and culture that would produce, in the words of Clive James, “one of the most dazzling books of its type ever written.” First published in Russian between 1911 and 1924, Evocations of Italy(Obrazy Italii) chronicles Muratov’s encounters with the art, myth, and land of Italy. A classic of the Silver Age, it built on the tradition of Italian travelogues by Goethe, Stendhal, John Ruskin, and Henry James and defined the idea of Italy for generations of Russian artists and writers. Finally available in English, this three-volume collector's edition illuminates the personalities, conditions, and dreams that gave us the Italian Renaissance. At once intimate and authoritative, and here richly illustrated with photographs that echo Muratov’s shimmering juxtapositions of image and sensation, Evocations of Italy is as timely and compelling a guide today as it was a hundred years ago.

Pavel Pavlovich Muratov (1881–1950) was a Russian art historian, essayist, critic, and playwright. Lena M. Lencek is a professor emerita of Russian and humanities at Reed College. Gideon Bosker is a photographer and author.

Translator’s Preface
Note on the Text
Note on Photography
Acknowledgments

EVOCATIONS OF ITALY

Author’s Preface to the First Edition

VOLUME 1
Part 1. Venice
The Waters of Lethe
Tintoretto
The Age of the Mask
Casanova

Part 2. The Road to Florence
The Arena Chapel
Andrea Mantegna
Ferrara and Its Artists
Bologna
Mausoleum

Part 3. Florence
From San Miniato
Quattrocento
The Fate of Botticelli
A Captive Spirit
Bronzino and His Age

Part 4. The Cities of Tuscany
Prato and Pistoia
Pisa
Lucca
San Gimignano
Siena
Notes
Bibliography

VOLUME 2
Part 1. Rome
The Aura of Rome
Antiquity
Christian Rome
Melozzo da ForlÌ
The High Renaissance
The Baroque
Piranesi
The Roman Campagna

Part 2. Lazio
The Spirit of Lazio
Ostia
Cori
Ninfa
Subiaco
Olevano
Palestrina
Corneto
Bracciano
Viterbo

Part 3. Naples and Sicily
Life in Naples
Pompeii
Amalfi, Ravello, Paestum
Palermo
Greek Sicily
Notes
Bibliography

VOLUME 3
Part 1. From the Tiber to the Arno
The Umbria Valley
Assisi
Perugia
In the Footsteps of Piero della Francesca
Italian Summer

Part 2. The North
Parma
Days in Milan
Gaudenzio Ferrari
Bergamo
Brescia
Mantua

Part 3. Venetian Epilogue
Verona
Vicenza
Around Venice
Preface to the Third Edition, by Pavel Pavlovich Muratov
Afterword, by Ksenia Muratova
Notes
Bibliography
INDEX

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.1.2026
Übersetzer	Lena M. Lencek
Zusatzinfo	43 color halftones
Verlagsort	Evanston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Reisen ► Bildbände
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-8101-4830-7 / 0810148307
ISBN-13	978-0-8101-4830-7 / 9780810148307
Zustand	Neuware