Book Launch: 'Apennine Crossings: Travellers on the Edge of Tuscany'. THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED, NEW DATE TBC
Event details
Apennine Crossings takes an innovative and wide-ranging approach to writing about this region of Italy.
It is primarily designed for the general reader interested in mountains, walking and Italian culture, but it also provides material and references for those with special interests in the history of the Apennines, the literature of travel, and the development of tourism. It combines a first-hand description of a contemporary journey on foot from east to west along this ridge with the vivid accounts, perceptions and responses of those who have crossed the Apennines in the past.
The rich cast of characters features writers from Dante to Goethe, Shelley and Garibaldi, along with travellers and tourists from the Middle Ages to the twentieth centuries and those who fought as soldiers and partisans in these mountains during the closing years of World War 2. The book also contains 26 illustrations with eight maps and is due to be published by Oxford University Press on 23 May 2024.
About the speaker
Professor Nick Havely
Nick Havely is Emeritus Professor of English & Related Literature. He taught in the Department and the CMS at York from 1971 to 2011. His recent books include Dante and the Franciscans (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Dante’s British Public (Oxford University Press, 2014) and After Dante: Poets in Purgatory (Arc Poetry, 2021).