Michael Gamer is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Romanticism and the Gothic (2000), Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry (2017), and (with the Multigraph Collective) Interacting with Print (2018). He is the author of over fifty articles and five editions and was awarded a five-year British Academy Global Professorship in 2019.

• List of illustrations; List of tables; General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Publication, reception, and a note on the text; The Italian; Or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents; Explanatory notes; Editorial emendations; List of variants; Appendix: reviews and mentions of The Italian; Select bibliography.

Michael Gamer is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Romanticism and the Gothic (2000), Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry (2017), and (with the Multigraph Collective) Interacting with Print (2018). He is the author of over fifty articles and five editions and was awarded a five-year British Academy Global Professorship in 2019.

• List of illustrations; List of tables; General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Publication, reception, and a note on the text; The Italian; Or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents; Explanatory notes; Editorial emendations; List of variants; Appendix: reviews and mentions of The Italian; Select bibliography.

Michael Gamer is Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Romanticism and the Gothic (2000), Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry (2017), and (with the Multigraph Collective) Interacting with Print (2018). He is the author of over fifty articles and five editions and was awarded a five-year British Academy Global Professorship in 2019.

• List of illustrations; List of tables; General editors' preface; Acknowledgements; Chronology; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Publication, reception, and a note on the text; The Italian; Or, The Confessional of the Black Penitents; Explanatory notes; Editorial emendations; List of variants; Appendix: reviews and mentions of The Italian; Select bibliography.