Letteratura italiana e arti figurative. Atti del XII Convegno dell'Associazione internazionale per gli studi di lingua e letteratura italiana (Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal, 6-10 maggio 1985).

Jerusalem, Keter Publishing House 1985, cm.25x29,5, pp.256, num.tavv.a col.nt. legatura ed.in tutta tela, sopraccop.fig.a col.

Traduzione di Marco Papi e Clara Gibellini. Milano, Mondolibri su Licenza Baldini e Castoldi 2004, cm.15x23, pp.358, legatura editoriale, sopraccoperta figurata a colori.

Foreword by Dominique Ponnau. Los angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum 2002, cm.17,5x25, pp.133, ill.a colori. legatura editoriale cartonata, copertina figurata a colori. During the Middle Ages, kings and nobility frequently commissioned the greatest artists of their day to illustrate-or "illuminate"-their personal prayer books. Intended for private reading and meditation, these so-called "books of hours" were arranged, in keeping with the practice of the Church, so that particular prayers were read at specific times of the day. To our enduring enchantment, the artists who illustrated these books entwined delicate flowers, beautiful fruits, and fanciful creatures with depictions of activities appropriate to each month of the year and with moving illustrations depicting stories from the lives of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and the saints. Presented here are carefully selected pages from over a dozen precious fourteenth- and fifteenth-century manuscripts-most of which have never been published before-found in some of the world's leading museums and libraries. Arranged and described to guide the viewer's eye, these delightful and colorful illustrations invite readers, young and old, to immerse themselves in the medieval imagination. Also included are a glossary and a short history of the noble personages who commissioned the works and the artists who produced them.