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Notes, review articles and papers presented at conventions can be found in the Curriculum Vitae (pdf, 92kb).

Books

For books in the final stages of completion, as well as books in progress, see Projects.

  • Dante Alighieri. Vita nuova. Italian Text with Facing English Translation. Ed. & trans. Dino S. Cervigni and Edward Vasta. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1995. Pp. 320.

Reviews: 1) James S. Torrens. Christianity and Literature 44 (1995): 225-27. 2) Mario Marti. Giornale storico della letteratura italiana 173:564 (1996): 610-613. 3) Paul Colilli. Italica 74.2 (1997): 249-50. 4) Robert C.Melzi. Rivista di studi italiani 15.1 (1997): 213-15; S. Botterill. Choice (March 1996).

  • Dante's Poetry of Dreams. Biblioteca dell’“Archivum Romanicum.” Firenze: Olschki, 1986. Pp. 228.

Reviews: 1. Aldo Vallone. L’Alighieri 1 (1986): 71-72; 2. Mario Marti. Giornale storico della letteratura italiana 163.522 (1986): 266-69; 3. Corrado Calenda. Esperienze letterarie 11.2-3 (1986): 178-79; 4. Bruno Basile, Lingua e stile 21.4 (1986): 616-17; 5. Rinaldina Russell, Forum Italicum 22:1 (1988): 143-45; 6. Manuscripta 32, no. 1.88: 64; 7. Mario Trovato, Italica 66 (1989): 349-52; 8. Armando Bisanti, Schede medievali 14-15 (1988): 135-36; 9. Giuseppe Tardiola, La rassegna dela letteratura italiana 92.2-3 (1988): 417-18.

  • The “Vita” of Benvenuto Cellini: Literary Tradition and Genre. Ravenna: Longo, 1979. Pp. 185.

Reviews: 1. Ronnie H. Terpening. Critica letteraria 7 (1979): 804-6; 2. Giulio Ferroni. La rassegna della letteratura italiana (Jan.-Aug. 1980): 335; 3. Carlo Cordiè. Paideia 35 (1980): 187; 4. Guido Guarino. Renaissance Quarterly 33 (1980): 755-58; 5. Antonio C. M. Gil. Forum Italicum 15 (1981): 222-23; 6. Stella Gargantini Rabbi. Spicilegio moderno 11 (1979): 190-92; 7. Giornale storico della letteratura italiana 4 (1979); 8. L'umanità 5/10, 1979; 9. Aldo S. Bernardo. Italian Quarterly 24.92 (1983): 122-24; 10. Kenneth R. Bartlett. Canadian Journal of Italian Studies 6.24-25 (1983): 233-34.

 

Volumes Edited: Founder and Editor of Annali d’italianistica (1983 - ).

  • 25 (2007): Literature, Religion, and the Sacred. In preparation.
  • 24 (2006): Negotiating Local, National, and Supranational Identities in Italian Culture. Guest editor: Norma Bouchard. Fall 2006. In preparation.
  • 23 (2005): Literature and Science. Pp. 390.
  • 22 (2004): Petrarch and the European Lyric Tradition. Pp. 560.
  • 21 (2003): Travel Literature/Hodoeporics. With guest ed. Luigi Monga. Pp. 612.
  • 20 (2002): Exile Literature. Fall 2002. (624 pp.)
  • 19 (2001): Literature, Criticism, and Ethics. (464 pp.)
  • 18 (2000): Beginnings/Endings/Beginnings. (572 pp.)
  • 17 (1999): Italian Film. Co-ed. Gaetana Marrone. (394 pp.)
  • 16 (1998): Italian Cultural Studies. Co-ed. R. Dombroski (446 pp.)
  • 15 (1997): Anthropology and Italian Literature. (440 pp.)
  • 14 (1996): Travel Literature. Guest ed. Luigi Monga (744 pp.).
  • 13 (1995): Italian Women Mystics (542 pp.).
  • 12 (1994): The Italian Epic and Its International Context (400 pp.).
  • 11 (1993): Goldoni and the European Theater. Guest ed.: Franco Fido (368 pp.).
  • 10 (1992): Columbus & the New World. Guest ed. A. Mancini (436 pp.).
  • 9 (1991): Italy 1991: The Modern and the Postmodern (438 pp.).
  • 8 (1990): Dante and Modern American Criticism (544 pp.).
  • 7 (1989): Women’s Voices in It. Literature. Guest ed.: R. West (506 pp.).
  • 6 (1988): Film and Literature. Guest ed.: John P. Welle (367 pp.).
  • 5 (1987): D’Annunzio (343 pp.)
  • 4 (1986): Autobiography (320 pp.)
  • 3 (1985): Manzoni (200 pp.)
  • 2 (1984): Guicciardini (136 pp.)
  • 1 (1983): Pulci and Boiardo (176 pp.)
 

Editor of a series entitled Studi e testi sponsored by Annali d’italianistica:

  • Vol. 8. Thomas C. Stillinger and F. Regina Psaki, eds. Boccaccio and Feminist Criticism. Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d’italianistica, 2005. Pp. vi + 273.
  • Vol. 7. Robert C. Melzi. The Conquering Monk: The Story of Al Mansur, An Eighteenth-Century Italian Cleric Who Conquered Chechnya and Daghestan. Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d’italianistica, 2005. Pp. xxxiv + 273. Pp. vii + 94.
  • Vol. 6. Suor Maria Domitilla Galluzzi d’Acqui. Vita da lei narrata (1624). Critical text, introduction and notes by Olimpia Pelosi. Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d’italianistica, 2004. Pp. xxxiv + 273.
  • Vol. 5. Beyond Artemisia. Female Subjectivity, History and Culture in Anna Banti. Ed. Daria Valentini and Paola Carù. Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d’italianistica, 2003. Pp. 196.
  • Vol. 4. Giuseppe Conte. Le stagioni / The Seasons. Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d’italianistica, 2000. Pp. 164.
  • Vol. 3. Massimo A. Maggiari, ed. The Waters of Hermes/Le acque di Ermes. Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d’italianistica, 2000. Pp. 207.
  • Vol. 2. RosaMaria LaValva. The Eternal Child. The Poetry and Poetics of Giovanni Pascoli. Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d’italianistica, 1999. Pp. 335.
  • Vol. 1. The Flight of Ulysses. Studies in Memory of Emmanuel Hatzantonis. Ed. Augustus Mastri. Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d’italianistica, 1997. Pp. 359.

Essays

  • 50. “Vestigial Orality in Dante’s Vita nuova.” Scripted Orality. Ed. Domenico Pietropaolo. Toronto: The U of Toronto P. Forthcoming 2007.
  • 49. “Spazialità e temporalità nella Vita nuova.” Festschrift in Honor of Edoardo Lebano. Edited by Paolo Giordano and Michele Lettieri. Forthcoming. Pp. 11.
  • 48. “Re-Configuring the Self through Suffering, Violence, and Death in Dante’s Vita nuova and Comedy.” Festschrift in Honor of Christopher Kleinhenz. Edited by Fabian Alfie. Forthcoming. Pp. 21.
  • 47. ““[...] ricordandomi di lei, disegnava uno angelo sopra certe tavolette” (VN 34.1): realtà disegno allegoria nella Vita nuova.” Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna, Italy [forthcoming].
  • 46. “Angela da Foligno’s Memoriale: The Male Scribe, the Female Voice, and the Other.” A Special Issue in Honor of Albert N. Mancini. Ed. Andrea Ciccarelli. Italica 82.3 (2005): 339-55.
  • 45. “The Petrarchan Lover’s Non-Dialogic and Dialogic Discourse: An Augustinian Semiotic Approach to Petrarch’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta.” Annali d’Italianistica 22 (2004): 105-34.
  • 44. “Religion and Literature.” Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Ed. Gaetana Marrone, Princeton University. Ca. 15 pp. Forthcoming.
  • 43. “Il tempio peregrino, poema sacroeroico di Giulio Acquaticci (1603-1688) e la continuazione della Gerusalemme liberata.” Acts of the Convention Quei battenti sempre aperti: gli Acquaticci e Treia nella cultura marchigiana. Macerata: Accademia Georgica, 2002. Pp. 43-75.
  • 42. “Literature Criticism Ethics: An Introductory Essay with Some Personal Reflections.” Annali d’Italianistica 19 (2001): 7-23.
  • 41. “Dante’s Fourfold Judeo-Christian Mytho-Poiesis.” Annali d’Italianistica 18 (2000): 143-74.
  • 40. “Beginnings and Endings: An Introduction.” Annali d’italianistica 18 (2000): 7-12.
  • 39. “Pluto’s Words versus Virgil’s Words: The Dantean Hell’s Failure of Self-Referentiality.” Pluralism & Critical Practice. Essays in Honor of Albert N. Mancini. Ed. Paolo A. Giordano and Anthony J. Tamburri. West Lafayette, IN: Bordighera Press, 1999. 32-40.
  • 38. “Dante’s Judeo-Christian Mytho-poiesis.” The Waters of Hermes/Le acque di Ermes. Ed. Massimo Maggiari. Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d’italianistica 2000. 189-95.
  • 37. “The Italian Epic’s English Pantheon.” AdI 17 (1999): 273-81.
  • 36. “Purgatorio 33: Beatrice’s Prophecy, Matelda’s Name, and the Pilgrim’s Renewal.” Lectura Dantis. Purgatorio. Berkeley: U of California P, forthcoming. 15 pp. Forthcoming.
  • 35. “Anthropological Approaches to Italian Literature: An Introduction.” Annali d’italianistica 15 (1997): 7-10.
  • 34. “Segni paragrafali, maiuscole e grafia nella Vita nuova: dal libello manoscritto al libro a stampa”. Rivista di Letteratura Italiana 13.1-2 (1995): 283-362.
  • 33. “From Manuscript to Print: The Case of Dante’s Vita Nuova” (in coll. with Edward Vasta). Dante Now: Current Trends in Dante Studies. Ed. Theodore J. Cachey, Jr. Notre Dame: U of Notre Dame P, 1995. 83-114.
  • 32. “Women Mystic Writers.” Annali d’italianistica 13 (1995): 7-17.
  • 31. “Temporalità e narratività nella Vita nuova.” Atti del congresso, “Simbolo, metafora e senso.” Università di Lecce, Oct. 27-29, 1994.
  • 30. “The Italian Epic and Its Internationsl Context.” Annali d’italianistica 12 (1994): 5-13.
  • 29. “Il triplice io nel Purgatorio VII: parola, silenzio e ascolto nella Commedia.” The Italianist 13 (1993): 7-28; L’Alighieri 33.1 (1992): 3-29.
  • 28. “Images of Columbus and the New World: An Introduction.” Annali d’italianistica 10 (1992): 5-15.
  • 27. “The Modern and the Postmodern: An Introduction.” Annali d’italianistica 9 (1991): 5-31.
  • 26. “Purgatorio 25.” Lectura Dantis: A Forum for Dante Research and Interpretation 12, Supplement (1992): 362-79.
  • 25. “Dante and Modern American Criticism: An Introductory Essay.” Annali d’italianistica 8 (1990): 5-29.
  • 24. “The Muted Self-Referentiality of Dante’s Lucifer.” Dante Studies 107 (1989): 45-74.
  • 23. “Beatrice’s Act of Naming.” Lectura Dantis: A Forum for Dante Research and Interpretation 8 (Spring 1991): 85-99.
  • 22. “La genesi del De vita propria liber di G. Cardano: dal Libellus (1543) al Liber recognitus (1560).” Miscellanea di italianistica in onore di Mario Santoro. Ed. Michele Cataudella. Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 1995. 51-70.
  • 21. “Dante’s Lucifer: The Denial of the Word.” Lectura Dantis: A Forum for Dante Research and Interpretation 3 (1988): 51-62.
  • 20. “L’Acheronte dantesco: morte del Pellegrino e della poesia.” Quaderni d’Italianistica 10.1-2 (1989): 71-89.
  • 19. “L’Eunoè o il ripristino del bene perduto.” Filologia e critica dantesca. Studi offerti a Aldo Vallone. Studi danteschi. Firenze: Olschki, 1989. Vol. 2: 175-98.
  • 18. “The Eunoè or the Recovery of the Lost Good.” Lectura Dantis Newberriana. Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1990. Vol. 2: 59-80.
  • 17. “Purgatorio 8: tempo e spazio come redenzione.” Letteratura italiana e arti figurative. Ed. A. Franceschetti. Biblioteca dell’Archivum Romanicum, 208. 3 vols. Firenze: Olschki, 1988. 1:237-44.
  • 16 “I canti di Cacciaguida: significato della storia e poetica della lingua.” In Dante Alighieri 1985. In Memoriam Hermann Gmelin. Eds. K. Baum and W. Hirdt. Tuebingen: Stauffenburg Verlag, 1985. 129-40.
  • 15. “A Survey of American and Canadian Dissertations in Italian and Italian-Related Subjects.” Italica 60 (1983): 298-314.
  • 14. “Cellini's Vita and Cervantes’ Don Quijote: An Inquiry into Prose Narrative and Genre.” Il Rinascimento: Aspetti e problemi attuali. Firenze: Olschki, 1982. 275-97 (rpt. of no. 7).
  • 13. “Dante’s Poetry of Dreams.” Pacific Coast Philology 17 (1982): 24-30.
  • 12. “Space and Time in the Vita nuova.” L’Alighieri 2 (1981): 3-11.
  • 11. “Everyman, Souls, Angels, and the Serpent in Purgatorio VIII: Antitype of the Adamic Fall and Type of the Redemption.” Esperienze letterarie 2 (1982): 1-27.
  • 10. “Inediti di Jacopo Corsi e del Sannazaro in un ms. della University of Notre Dame.” Studi e problemi di critica testuale 19 (1979): 25-31.
  • 9. “Lazarillo de Tormes and the Vita of Benvenuto Cellini: An Inquiry into Prose Narrative and Genre.” Kentucky Romance Quarterly 27 (1980): 373-98.
  • 8. “Religione e cristianesimo nei Sepolcri.” Canadian Journal of Italian Studies 1 (1978): 249-61
  • 7. “The Two Disenchanted Heroes in Cellini’s Vita and Cervantes’ Don Quijote.” Hispano-Italic Studies 2 (1979): 41-63.
  • 6. “A Survey of American and Canadian Dissertations in Italian and Italian-Related Subjects.” Italica 55 (1978): 36-67.
  • 5. “Lo Spaccio del Bruno e la tradizione utopica.” Critica letteraria 8 (1980): 366-78.
  • 4. “The Pilgrim’s Dream in Purgatorio IX: Its Meaning and Function.” L’Alighieri 19 (1978): 3-17.
  • 3. “Cellini’s Vita or the Unfinished Story of a Disillusioned Hero.” Modern Language Quarterly 39 (1978): 15-26.
  • 2. “Privacy and Concern in Pontormo’s Diario.” Paragone 327 (1977): 116-28.
  • 1. “Demonic and Angelic Forces in Dante’s Second Dream.” L'Alighieri 18 (1977): 29-40.