Research/teaching interests

• French and Italian Renaissance and Baroque literature
• Early modern travel writing
• historiography

Most useful journals

• Studi Secenteschi
• Annali d’Italianistica
• Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance

Intro guides, books

Italian Literary Histories:

• Storia Letteraria D’Italia- Vallardi
• Storia della Letteratura Italiana (Cecchi-Sapegno)-Garzanti
• Letteratura Italiana Laterza (LIL)- (Muscetta)
• Letteratura Italiana Enaudi (Asor Rosa)

General Guides:

• Orientamenti culturali. Letteratura italiana-Marzorati
• Guida allo studio della letteratura italiana (E. Pasquini)-Il Mulino
• L’attività letteraria in Italia (G. Petronio)

Favorites and classics:

• Cachey, Theodore. Introduction to his edition of Petrarch’s Guide to the Holy Land. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002.
• Dionisotti, Carlo. Geografia e storia della letteratura italiana. Turin: Einaudi, 1967.
• Genette, Gérard. Figures. Paris: Seuil, 1966.
• Getto, Giovanni. Barocco in prosa e poesia. Milan: Rizzoli, 1969.
• Greenblatt, Stephen. Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991.
• Guglielminetti, Marziano. Storia della civiltà letteraria italiana.
• Manierismo e Barocco. Turin: UTET, 1990.
• ---. Viaggiatori del '600. Turin: UTET, 1967.
• Leed, Eric J. The Mind of the Traveller: From Gilgamesh to Global Tourism. New York: Basic Books, 1991.
• Pasquali, Adrien. Le tour des horizons. Paris: Klincksieck, 1994.
• White, Hayden. Tropics of Discourse. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1978.

Dictionaries

• Dizionario Letterario Bompiani
• Dizionario Enciclopedico della Letteratura Italiana (Petronio)-Laterza
• Dizionario Critico della Letteratura Italian (Branca)-UTET
• Enciclopedia dello Spettacolo (S. D’Amico)

Websites

• Italian Studies (Western European Studies Section, Yale U Library)
• Renaissance Society of America
• Monthly Newsletter of the International Society for Travel Writing
• General discussions on travel writing (White Horse Press)
• Centre de Recherches sur les Littératures de Voyage, Sorbonne
• H-Travel listserv

Research/teaching interests

• Medieval Italian and French literature
• Dante
• Boccaccio
• lyric
• chivalric romance in French and Italian
• medieval feminist scholarship
• translation

Most useful journals

medieval

• Speculum
• Romania
• Medioevo Romanzo
• Exemplaria
• Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Scholarship

literary in general

• PMLA
• Comparative Literature
• Representations

Italian

• Lettere italiane
• Italian Quarterly
• Rassegna della letteratura italiana

feminist scholarship

• Signs
• Medieval Feminist Forum
• Feminist Studies

Intro guides, books

• La scrittura e l'interpretazione: storia della letteratura italiana nel quadro della civiltà e della letteratura dell'Occidente. Romano Luperini and Pietro Cataldi. Palermo: Palumbo, 1999. 3 vols.
• Letteratura italiana: le opere. series editor Alberto Asor Rosa. Torino: Einaudi, 1992
• La Letteratura italiana nell'orizzonte europeo : dalle origini all'Ottocento. Ed. Michele Tortorici et al. Milano: Oberon, 1993.
• Storia della letteratura italiana. Series editor Enrico Malato. Roma: Salerno editrice, 1995
• The Cambridge History of Italian Literature. Eds. Peter Brand and Lino Pertile. Cambridge University Press, 1996 / 1999.
• The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Alex Preminger and T.V.F. Brogan, co-editors; Frank J. Warnke, O.B. Hardison, Jr., and Earl Miner, associate editors. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993.
• A History of Women's Writing in Italy. Eds. Letizia Panizza and Sharon Wood. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
• Introduction to Scholarship in Modern Languages and Literatures, 2/e. Ed. Joseph Gibaldi. NY: The Modern Language Association, 1992.
• Literary Theory: An Introduction, 2/e. Terry Eagleton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996.

• The MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, 6/e. Joseph Gibaldi. NY: The Modern Language Association, 2003.

Dictionaries

• See Rita Gagliano's suggestions below.

Websites

• Il dizionario italiano online
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index (excellent bibliographical start)
• Early Occitan Literature (with links to Medieval [North] French Lyric Poetry portal as well)
• The Labyrinth: one of the oldest and largest portal sites for Medieval Studies
• The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
• Italian Studies Web: "The Italian Studies Web is designed to provide access to scholarly resources in Italian Studies. We do not strive for exhaustiveness but rather for quality. The resources organized here have undergone a selection and evaluation process. If needed, annotations have been provided augmenting the research value of these resources to scholars."

• The Decameron Web
• The Princeton Dante Project

Research/teaching interests

• 20th-century Italian narrative
• Italian cinema

Most useful journals

• Studi Novecenteschi
• Italica
• Review of Contemporary Fiction

Intro guides, books

• Enciclopedia della letteratura (Garzanti)
• Enciclopedia di filosofia (Garzanti)
• Il sistema letterario, ed. Guglielmino/Grosser
• Il materiale e l'immaginario, ed. Ceserani/DeFedericis

Dictionaries

• Dizionario della lingua italiana ed Devoto / Oli
• Dizionario inglese-italiano, ed. Ragazzini
• Dizionario di retorica, ed. Marchese
• Dizionario Garzanti dei sinonimi e contrari
• OED (Oxford English Dictionary)
• Rogets Thesaurus

Websites

• www.garzantilinguistica.it
• www.aber.ac.uk/media/Documents/S4B/semiotic.html
• alice.it
• www.jstor.org
• www.muse.jhu.org
• www.ilgiardinodeipensieri.com
• www.theory.com
• www.philosophyonline.ca.uk
• www.popcultures.com
• www.mla.org
• www.aais.info/aais_bene.html
• www.italianstudies.org/aati
• www.english.upenn.edu/CFP