Golubkov, A., Ershova, I. and Chekalov, K., eds. (2021). Ad virum illustrem: In honour of Mikhail Leonidovich Andreev’s 70th birthday: A festschrift. Moscow: Delo. (In Russ.)

The review considers the festschrift celebrating the 70th birthday of the scholar M. Andreev. His colleagues and followers have co-authored a summary of his scholarship that showcases the body of knowledge of the contemporary humanities, where Andreev’s achievements feature prominently. The division of the monograph into sections entitled ‘The Theatre and the Theatrical,’ ‘Italy and Italian Studies,’ ‘Translation and Translators: Practice and Theory,’ and ‘The Poetics of Text’ is inspired by the academic interests of the renowned scholar — the book’s dedicatee, with whom every contributor engages, directly or indirectly, in an intellectual dialogue. The festschrift shows exceptional thematic diversity and richness, and covers purely theoretical as well as practical aspects of scholarly research. For example, the section on translation contains both theoretical studies and actual translations — in poetry and prose, from the Italian, English and French languages — supplied with detailed notes.