Italica Press was founded in New York in 1985 by Eileen Gardiner and Ronald G. Musto. The press, now in its fourth decade, publishes English translations of works from the Middle Ages and Renaissance and English translations of contemporary Italian literature. It also publishes essays and collected essays in the study of art and history. It specializes in urban studies, medieval pilgrimage, medieval romances and chansons de geste, women writers, fiction, poetry, short stories and plays. Over the years it has maintained its editorial goal of publishing an average of six titles a year, and its catalog now lists about 130 titles with nearly 400 authors, editors and translators. Italica's list is developed directly from submitted proposals. Italica has published works by Torquato Tasso, Giovanni Boccaccio, Guido Cavalcanti, Francesco Petrarch, Gaspara Stampa, Grazia Deledda, Luigi Pirandello, Massimo Bontempelli, Aldo Palazzeschi, Vasco Pratolini, Anna Maria Ortese, and Dacia Maraini among many others. Italica also publishes a series of scholarly essays, "Studies in Art & History," with volumes dedicated to scholars such as Aldus Manutius, Paul Oskar Kristeller, Eugene F. Rice, Jr., William S. Heckscher, Irving Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg Lavin and Sarah Blake McHam. As a small press in the 1980s, Italica was recognized for its innovative approach to publishing, making early use of Macintosh computers and laser printers to produce pages with the look of hot type and other elements of traditional fine printing, while many university and scholarly presses were shooting from camera-ready pages produced on typewriters. In the early days of Italica Press, the only digital fonts available were Courier, Helvetica, Times and Symbol, but slowly a full range of fonts became available. Its first book, The Revolution of Cola di Rienzo, appeared in 1986 complete with one of the first full book indexes generated electronically. Italica's pages were produced physically on a laser printer and then sent for tradition offset printing to one of the several specialized printers then in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Art was produced on Velox paper by photostat machines and traditional methods and pasted onto "flats." In 1992, Italica produced its first book created entirely in Aldus Pagemaker; appropriately it was a tribute to the Renaissance scholar and printer Aldus Manutius. It contained dozens of illustrations and a foreword by the president of Aldus Corporation, Paul Brainerd, citing the importance of this Italica Press publication. In 1993, Italica Press became one of the earliest ebook