Hallelujah! At last! After three months of back and forth with the printers (and setting up to print with someone else at twice the price), the Fiore Facsimile with translation is now working properly.
Everyone who bought it in December has had their order re-run yesterday, so new copies are being printed and shipped. Now that they have been taken care of, we can open it up for new orders!
The Facsimile
This book reproduces the Getty manuscript in its entirety, in full colour, and as close as possible to the size of the original.
But that's not all:
The second half of this volume is a second reproduction of the manuscript with the original Italian text replaced by my English translation. This recreates the experience of reading the original Italian as closely as possible. The book also includes an introduction to Fiore and his life and times, the provenance of the manuscript, and suggestions for further study.
This way, you get the original, and the translation, in one volume… for the same price as the original facsimile-only edition.
The excellent Katie Mackenzie has done a gorgeous job on the cover and layout:
The translation section includes tags on the pages so you can find the section you want from the page edges.
The Facsimile Companion Volume
If you buy the facsimile you will get a free ebook copy of the companion volume, which includes a complete transcription of the manuscript. Or you can order it as a paperback too (with a discount if you get them both together).
You can find the facsimile here, and the companion volume here.
It has been a long slog to get this to work, for reasons that don't really matter (six defective proofs before we got a good one. The previous record is one). It started with the awful cold-water shock of embarrassment when I realised we had shipped defective books, and ended with an eye-watering bill for reprinting and shipping new ones. But I've done my best to keep everyone informed, and to make good on the trust placed in me by everyone who buys from my store.
So, not the customer experience I was hoping to generate for my people, but we got there in the end!