Translations of three poems from DIsturbi del sistema binario by Valerio Magrelli.

Review of Troy Jollimore’s award-winning book of poetry.

Review of Valerio Magrelli’s 2006 volume of poetry

A reading of Boccaccio’s poetics in the Decameron from the perspective of his interpretative strategies in the Genealogy of the Pagan Gods.

A reading of the sixteen poems in Boccaccio’s collection of bucolics.

An analysis of 20th-century Italian poet, Edoardo Sanguineti’s use and abuse of Dante’s works in his poetry and cultural criticism.

This chapter presents an overview of critical approaches to Dante’s Inferno and of Dante’s impact on Anglo-American and Italian literature.

A reading of Boccaccio’s exegeses of Venus in the Genealogy of the Pagan Gods and its implications for understanding erotic desire in the Decameron.

A reconstruction of Boccaccio’s engagement with ancient Greek literature and culture and its significance for distinguishing Boccaccio’s humanism from that of Petrarch.

A new reading of Boccaccio’s methodology for understanding history in the Genealogy of the Pagan Gods.

In readings of orations, letters, and poems about Petrarch’s death composed in Paduan and Florentine intellectual circles, this article shows that the well-known praise of Petrarch in these texts is a function of a political competition over Petrarch’s remains and, with them, over the rightful location of his legacy. Boccaccio’s last letter, which…[Read more]