Lena Lenček
12 февр. 2026 г.
Northwestern University Press Announces first English translation of Pavel Pavlovich Muratov’s magisterial Obrazy Italii published under the title Evocations of Italy, translated and annotated by Lena Lenček, with afterword by Ksenia Muratova, and photographs by Gideon Bosker
Northwestern University Press is proud to announce the publication of Evocations of Italy, the first English translation of Pavel Pavlovich Muratov’s acclaimed three-volume classic, Obrazy Italii (1911–1924). This monumental achievement, rendered into English by Lena Lenček, marks a new chapter in literary scholarship and offers readers worldwide an extraordinary guide to the beauty and history of Italy, freshinsight into the humanist culture of the Russian Silver Age that inspired it, and an essential guide to “how to look at art.”
Book Details
Title: Evocations of Italy
Original Author: Pavel Pavlovich Muratov
Translator: Lena Lencek
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication Date: 2026
Significance and Relevance
Muratov’s Obrazy Italii / Evocations of Italy has long been celebrated as a genre-defying masterpiece, weaving insightful explorations of Italian Renaissance figures with evocative descriptions of Italy’s landscapes and cities. The work stands as a ‘Paideia’—a formative guide to Italy’s enduring beauty, culture, and intellectual heritage, and an essential cultural companion for art historians, literary scholars, and all lovers of the great beauty that is Italy. Lena Lenček’s translation opens this seminal text to a wider audience, reinforcing its place as a touchstone for anyone passionate about the Renaissance, Italy, aesthetic journeys, and world literature.
Edition Features
The three-volume set, encased in a beautiful slipcase, features the entire text of Muratov’s authoritative 1924 Grzhebin edition. Scrupulously annotated and indexed, it includes the translator’s Preface, an Afterword by Ksenia Muratova, maps, and lavish, full-color photographs by visionary photographer Gideon Bosker,
Evocations of Italy is available as both a collector’s edition and an e-book, indispensible to bibliophiles, scholars of Russian modernism, the Italian Renaissance, the genre of the aesthetic journey, and, above all, to lovers of the art, architecture, culture and history of Italy as seen through the lens of its past grandeur..
Availability
Evocations of Italy is available for purchase through Amazo. comn and directly from Northwestern University Press. <https://nupress.northwestern.edu/9780810148307/evocations-of-italy/>
For further information, review copies, or interviews, please contact Northwestern University Press.