The Aberdeen Italian Circle is delighted to host the launch of book Apennine Crossings: Travellers on the Edge of Tuscany, the newly published work by Nick Havely on 24th October 2024 at Fountainhall Church Centre.
This captivating book intertwines Havely’s own twenty-first century journey across the Apennine crinale — the ridge connecting Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna—with the historic travels of pilgrims, tourists, and soldiers from the Middle Ages to WWII. His talk will introduce the route taken, some of the travelers who crossed it, their perceptions of the landscape, and the various problems and dangers that they encountered. The event will feature images of the Apennine region, along with selected readings from Apennine Crossings.
Nick Havely is Emeritus Professor at the University of York where he taught medieval and early modern literature. He is at present an Honorary Research Fellow at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford. Among his recent books are Dante’s British Public (2014), After Dante: Poets in Purgatory (2021), and Apennine Crossings (2024). His current projects include The Roads to Florence (an anthology of writing by British and American travellers) and a verse translation of late and unpublished poems by Attilio Bertolucci.
Info on the event here.