Other Publications
Monograph
The City of Poetry: Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020).
Edited volume
The Decameron Sixth Day in Perspective (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021).
Co-edited volume
A Boccaccian Renaissance: Essays on the Early Modern Impact of Giovanni Boccaccio and His Works, co-edited with Martin Eisner (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2019).
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
“Placing Petrarch’s Legacy: The Politics of Petrarch’s Tomb and Boccaccio’s Last Letter.” Renaissance Quarterly 71.2 (2017): 435-73.
“Boccaccio’s Hellenism and the Foundations of Modernity.” Mediaevalia 33 (2012): 101-67.
“Boccaccio’s Poetic Anthropology: Allegories of History in the Genealogie Deorum Gentilium Libri.” Speculum 87.3 (July 2012): 724-65.
“Boccaccio’s Three Venuses: On the Convergence of Celestial and Transgressive Love in the Genealogie Deorum Gentilium Libri.” Medievalia et Humanistica 37 (2011): 65-88.
Peer Reviewed Book Chapters
“Egloge.”
Dante’s “Other Works”: Assessments and Interpretations. Ed. Zygmunt G. Barański and Theodore J. Cachey Jr. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2022). 306-32.
“Love and Death in Pistoia:
Decameron IX.1 between Poetry and History.”
The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective. Ed. Susanna Barsella and Simone Marchesi (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2022). 30-53.
“Mythography as Ethnography. Euhemerism in Giovanni Boccaccio’s Explications of Mercury in the
Genealogie Deorum Gentilium Libri.” Euhemerism and Its Uses: The Mortal Gods. Ed. Syrithe Pugh. (London: Routledge, 2021), 127-47.
“The Decameron and Boccaccio’s Poetics.” Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Boccaccio. Ed. Guyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels, and Stephen J. Milner. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2015). 65-82.
“The Changing Landscape of the Self (Buccolicum Carmen).” Boccaccio: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works. Ed. Victoria Kirkham, Michael Sherberg, and Janet Smarr. (Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2013). 155-69 and 406-13.
“Edoardo Sanguineti’s New Dante.” Edoardo Sanguineti: Literature, Ideology and the Avant-Garde. Ed. Paolo Chirumbolo and John Picchione. (London: Legenda, 2013). 40-55.
Dictionary Entries and Instructional Article
“Dante’s Inferno / Critical Reception and Influence.” Critical Insights: Dante’s ‘Inferno’. Ed. Patrick Hunt. (Pasadena: Salem Press, 2011). 63-81.
“Giuseppe Billanovich” and “Bruno Nardi.”
The Handbook of Medieval Studies. Ed. Albrecht Classen. (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2010). 2190-2192 and 2553-2556.
Review Essay
Giovanni Boccaccio. Decameron. Ed. Amedeo Quondam, Maurizio Fiorilla, and Giancarlo Alfano. Milan: BUR, 2013. Francisco Rico. Ritratti allo specchio (Boccaccio, Petrarca). Rome-Padua: Antenore, 2012. The Medieval Review. 14.02.01 (February 2014).
Book Reviews
The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso. By Andrea Moudarres. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2019.
Religion and Literature (forthcoming).
Petrarch’s War: Florence and the Black Death in Context. By William Caferro. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. Renaissance Quarterly 75.1 (2022): 278-79.
Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue in the Italian Renaissance. By L.B.T. Houghton. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2019. In Renaissance Quarterly 74.3 (2021): 1048-49.
Scripto sopra Theseu Re: Il commento salentino al “Teseida” di Boccaccio (Ugento/Nardò, ante 1487), vol 1: Studi, vol. 2: Testo. Ed. Marco Maggiore. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie 399. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2016. Speculum 95.3 (2020): 863-64.
Reconsidering Boccaccio: Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts. Ed. Olivia Holmes and Dana E. Stewart. Toronto UP, 2018. Speculum 95.1 (2020): 257-58.
Courtesy Lost: Dante, Boccaccio, and the Literature of History. By Kristina M. Olson. Toronto: Toronto UP, 2014. Heliotropia 12-13 (2015-2016): 373-77.
Dante and the Greeks. Ed. Jan M. Ziolkowski. Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2014. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.09.47.
Vincenzo Cartari’s Images of the Gods of the Ancients: The First Italian Mythography. Translated and annotated by John Mulryan. Tempe, AZ: ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), 2012. Renaissance Quarterly 67.1 (Spring 2014): 324-35.
Boccaccio’s Decameron and the Ciceronian Renaissance. By Michaela Paasche Grudin and Robert Grudin. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. Renaissance Quarterly 66.1 (Spring 2013): 326-27.
Boccaccio’s Expositions on Dante’s Comedy. Trans., intro., and notes by Michael Papio. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. The Medieval Review 10.06.27 (June 2010).
Disturbi del sistema binario. By Valerio Magrelli. Torino: Einaudi, 2006. Mantis 6 (2007): 198-201.
Tom Thomson in Purgatory. By Troy Jollimore. Chesterfield, MO: MARGIE / IntuiT House, 2006. (Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, 2006). Mantis 6 (2007): 195-197.
Le muse in giardino: il paesaggio ameno nelle opere di Giovanni Boccaccio. By Maria Elisa Raja. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2003. Italian Culture 23 (2005): 170-72.
Literary Translations
Trio for the End of the Millennium (Trio di fine millennio) by Fabrizio Falconi and Justin Bradshaw (Rome: Plant.t.editions, 2012).
“Guace,” “Elegia,” and “Post Scriptum – Addio alla lingua” by Valerio Magrelli (from Disturbi del sistema binario). Mantis 6 (2007): 20-25.
Poems by Luigi Ballerini, Fabrizio Falconi, Valerio Magrelli, Lucio Mariani, Giovanni Raboni (with Robert P. Harrison), Patrizia Valduga (with Susan Stewart and Robert P. Harrison), Andrea Zanzotto, and the collection “
Sette poeti per R.M. Rilke (
Seven Poets for R.M. Rilke)” (with Robert P. Harrison).
TriQuarterly 127 (2007) Special Issue on Contemporary Italian Poetry.
“[Selections] from
Cynthia with her eyes…: An Autobiography of Sextus Propertius” (translation of selections of Pietro Zullino’s
Cinzia con i suoi occhi…: Un’autobiografia di Sesto Properzio) and “Translator’s Note.”
TriQuarterly 123 (2005): 100-123.