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An English translation of a key Italian history of the Kingdom of Naples from the death in 1250 of the German Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen who ruled Naples and Sicily, down through the reign of King Ferdinand of Naples in the late 1480s, shortly before Naples became a province of Spain, The author, Angelo di Costanzo (1507-1591), was one of the greatest Italian lyric poets of the 16th Century. Yet he is better remembered for his History which he first published in its entirety in 1581. In his work he describes straightforwardly, event-by-event, the pageant of medieval and renaissance...

A biography of Joseph of Copertino ( Cupertino), famous as "the monk who could fly." It was written by Brother Paolo Antonio Agelli and published in 1753, the year of Joseph's beatification but several years before his canonization in 1767. It was translated into English in 2014 by Christopher David Costanzo. This biography describes Joseph of Copertino with vivid frankness, including his childhood, his relationship with his mother, his physical and mental shortcomings, his humiliation at the hands of family and acquaintances, and his later asceticism and self-mortification. It is clear that...