Felsina Pittrice. Lives of the Bolognese Painters. A critical edition and annotated translation. Volume I. Early Bolognese Painting

In this new critical edition by Lorenzo Pericolo, careful analysis of many literary and archival sources will make it possible to reevaluate Malvasia's status as an historian, and provide new information about the construction of the Felsina pittrice as a book. Malvasia's text presents great difficulties even to modern Italian readers, and a full translation of the Felsina pittrice into English has never been attempted. The goal of the project is to produce a translation that is useful to the general reader while remaining faithful to the complexities of the original. Individual volumes will be published in order of completion. Each of the fifteen volumes proposed will include one or two introductory essays in addition to the critical edition and translation. The series will be extended to include a sixteenth volume with a critical edition and translation of Malvasia's Il Claustro di San Michele in Bosco (1694), accompanied by an essay and historical notes