Tempera Book Prize
The IASEMS “Mariangela Tempera” Book Prize for Early Modern English Studies
Since 2018, IASEMS has awarded a “Mariangela Tempera” Book Prize for books published in the area of Early Modern English Studies. The Book Prize has been awarded to single-authored scholarly monographs or critical editions, in English or Italian, written by IASEMS members in good standing with the payment of the annual fee.
Winners
2018
ex aequo
Angela Andreani. The Elizabethan secretariat and the Signet Office. The Production of State papers, 1590-1596. Routledge, 2017.
Carmen Gallo. “L’altra natura”. Eucaristia e poesia nel primo Seicento inglese. ETS, 2018.
2021
Irene Montori. Milton, the Sublime and Dramas of Choice. Figures of Heroic and Literary Virtue. Studium, 2020.
2024
ex aequo
Domenico Lovascio. John Fletcher’s Rome: Questioning the classics. Manchester University Press, The Revels Plays Companion Library, 2022.
Martina Zamparo. Alchemy, Paracelsianism, and Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Starting from 2026, the Prize will be awarded biennially and will comprise two categories: the “Mariangela Tempera” Book Prize and the “Mariangela Tempera” Early Career Book Prize (see the call for submissions).