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The authors present some of the most important writings of the well-known professor emeritus of Bonn University, Hans Rothe (1928-2021), offering an overview of the main ideas he developed and the methods he applied in his research. Due attention is given to his indefatigable activity as an editor of important, mostly unduly forgotten medieval and early modern texts. His commentary to the first translations of the Bible for many Slavic peoples remains a milestone of Slavic studies. He was a pioneer in fostering research about Slavo-Byzantine liturgical and religious texts, devotional songs, and baroque literature in Russia and Ukraine. No less remarkable are his articles about the Enlightenment and such giants of literature as Lesja Ukrajinka, Deržavin, Puškin and Tolstoj.

The present issue collects six articles written by leading specialists in Ukrainian Modernist literature on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of the renowned Ukrainian writer and poet Lesja Ukrajinka.

Book Review

Book Review

This is an outline of the translations of Ukrainian literary works published in Italy over the last twenty years. The Author also gives some information about translations published in the periods following the First and Second World Wars. Moreover, the Author presents the difficulties translators and publishers face in their efforts to make Ukrainian literature better known in Italy, and briefly touches upon the translations of Russian-language Ukrainian literature and of literature on Ukrainian subjects written in other languages.