The Arthur of the Italians

'Finally, a volume in English about Arthurian legend in Italy. This will be a welcome addition not only to the libraries of Italianists but also to those of medievalists, comparatists and general readers. New editions of texts as well as manuscript and artistic discoveries long ago outdated the few short chapters in English about Italian Arthuriana published in large part in the early to mid-twentieth century. This volume, with its broad range of interdisciplinary studies and up-to-date bibliography, will be become an essential point of departure for future research in the field.'- Dr Leslie Zarker Morgan, Loyola University Maryland. 'With this volume, Psaki and Allaire elevate the "third tier" of Arthurian literature to appropriate pre-eminence. Too long neglected, Italian Arthuriana is now for the first time in English given the scholarly introduction it deserves. A ground-breaking contribution to Arthurian scholarship, this volume should be essential reading for all students of the corpus.' - Dr Donald Hoffman, Northeastern Illinois University. 'These elegant and insightful essays will be a revelation to many Arthurian scholars, remedying the relative lack of Anglophone writing on the Italian tradition, and making available the fruits of recent scholarship in Italian. It is striking that Tristan was so much more popular in Italy than Lancelot, and interesting to meet new characters such as Morgan le Fay's daughter, the Gaia Donzela. The editors of this excellent volume certainly succeed in their aim of rescuing the Italian tradition from "benign neglect" by Anglophone scholars, and of showing how important it is to an understanding of the wider European Arthurian tradition.' - Professor Elizabeth Archibald, Durham University.