Recent & Forthcoming Publications

  • ‘Italian’, in Literary Beginnings in the European Middle Ages, ed. by Chris Young and Mark Chinca (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022), pp. 203-227. ISBN: 9781108477642.

  • ‘Inferno 1: Openings and Beginnings’, in Reading Dante with Images: A Visual Lectura Dantis, ed. by Matthew Collins (Turnhout: Harvey Miller, 2021), pp. 33-53. ISBN: 9781912554508.

  • ‘The Tale of Gulfardo and Ambruogia (VIII.1)’, in The Decameron Eighth Day in Perspective, ed. by William Robins (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020), pp. 20-38. ISBN: 9781487506902; DOI: 10.3138/j.ctv138wq9g.5

  • ‘Boccaccio and the Poetics of the Paratext: Rubricating the Vernacular’, in Le Tre Corone, VI (2019), 69-106. ISSN: 2283-5768.

  • ‘The Italian Context’, in Chaucer in Context, ed. Ian Johnson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 126-131. ISBN: 9781107025645.

  • ‘Text and (Inter)Face: The Catchwords in Boccaccio’s Autograph of the Decameron’, in Reconsidering Boccaccio: Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts, ed. by Olivia Holmes & Dana E. Stewart (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 2018), pp. 27-47. ISBN: 978-14875-01785.
​
  • ‘Author-Text-Reader: Boccaccio’s Decameron in 1384’, in Heliotropia 14 (2017), 101-115, special issue ed. by Guyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels and Stephen Milner. ISSN: 1542-3352.
 
  • ‘Griselda’s Curious Husband: Petrarch, Boccaccio, and Seniles 17’ in Studi sul Boccaccio XLIV (2016), 301-312.
 
  • ‘Sotto la quale rubrica: Pre-reading the Comedìa’, in Dante Studies CXXXIII (2015), pp. 147-176.
 
  • ‘Florence’, in Europe: A Literary History, 1348-1418, edited by David Wallace, 2 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), Vol. 1, pp. 687–707. ISBN: 978-0-19-873535-9. See the project website here; and see here.
 
  • ‘Humility and the (P)arts of Art: The Cantos Ten’, in Cambridge Vertical Readings in Dante’s Comedy, ed. by George Corbett and Heather Webb, 3 vols (Cambridge: Open Book Publishers, 2015-2017), Vol. 1, pp. 209-227. Available here.​
 
  • ‘Canto XI: St Francis and Poverty’, in Lectura Dantis: Paradiso, Lectura Dantis Californiana, ed. Anthony Oldcorn et al. (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press). Forthcoming.
 
  • ‘On Copying and Not Copying Griselda: Petrarch and Boccaccio’, in Boccaccio and the European Literary Tradition, ed. by Piero Boitani and Emilia Di Rocco, Tema e testi 134 (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2014), pp. 57-71.
 
  • On Light, ed. by K P Clarke and S Baccianti, Medium Ævum Monographs (Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literatures, 2014). Available to download here.
 
  • ‘Leggere il Decameron a margine del codice Mannelli’ in Boccaccio e i suoi lettori. Una lunga ricezione, a cura di Gian Mario Anselmi, Giovanni Baffetti, Carlo Delcorno & Sebastiana Nobili (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2013), pp. 195-207. ISBN: 8815247092.
 
  • ‘In Keeping (Up) With Dante: Theology, Ethics, Vernacular’, Italian Studies 68 (2013), 295–302. [Review article].
 
  • ‘Marrying Word and Image: Visualizing Boccaccio at the Spannocchi Wedding, Siena, 1494’, Studi sul Boccaccio XL (2012), 315–390.
 
  • ‘A Good Place for a Tale: Reading the Decameron 1358-1363’, MLN 127.1 (2012), 65–84. ISSN: 0026-7910.
 
  • ‘Chaucer and Italy: Contexts of/and Sources’, Literature Compass 8.8 (2011), 526–533. ISSN: 1741-4113. DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2011.00820.x  See here.
 
  • Chaucer and Italian Textuality, Oxford English Monographs (Oxford: Oxford University Press). ISBN: 978-0199607778. Pp. 248.  [Reviews: TLS 27 Jan 2012, p. 27 (ASG Edwards); Il Sole 24 Ore, 1 April 2012 (Piero Boitani); The Medieval Review Apr 2012 (Alessandra Petrina); Studies in the Age of Chaucer 34 (2012), 384-387 (Karla Taylor); Medium Ævum LXXXII.2 (2013), 336-337 (Peter Brown); JEGP 112/4 (2013), 536-538 (Warren Ginsberg); Heliotropia 10.1-3 (2013), 93-98 (Cristina Pangilinan); Studi sul Boccaccio 41 (2013), 391-394 (Anna Pegoretti); Speculum 89/3 (2014), 760-761 (Robert R. Edwards)]
 
  • ‘Taking the Proverbial: Reading (at) the Margins of Boccaccio’s Corbaccio’, Studi sul Boccaccio 32 (2010), 105–144. ISSN:0585-4997.
 
  • On Allegory: Some Medieval Aspects and Approaches, ed. by Mary Carr,  K P Clarke and Marco Nievergelt (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008). ISBN (13): 9781847184009. Pp. 269 + viii. A collection of essays drawn from the 2005 Lincoln College Conference I co-organized; articles include a survey introduction by Prof. E.G. Stanley, and an afterword by Prof. Vincent Gillespie. [See here]
 
  • ‘Reading/Writing Griselda: A Fourteenth Century Response (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, MS Plut. 42,1)’, in On Allegory: Some Medieval Aspects and Approaches, ed by Mary Carr, K P Clarke and Marco Nievergelt (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2008), pp. 183–208.
 
  • “Boccaccio”, “Envoi”, “Petrarch”, The Fact on File Companion to Pre-1600 British Poetry, ed. by Michelle M. Sauer (New York: Facts on File, 2008), ISBN: 9780816063604; (pp. 86–7; 163; 317).[See here]
 
  • ‘Eagles Mating with Doves: Troilus and Criseyde II. 925-931, Inferno V and Purgatorio IX’, Notes & Queries 53 (2006), 297–299. ISSN 00293970.

Reviews

  • Kathryn L. McKinley, Chaucer's House of Fame and Its Boccaccian Intertexts: Image, Vision, and the Vernacular (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2016), in Medium Ævum, LXXXVIII.1 (2019), 167-168. [See also here]
  • Janet M. Cowen, ed., On Famous Women: The Middle English Translation of Boccaccio’s De mulieribus claris, edited from London, British Library, MS Additional 10304 (Heidelberg: Winter, 2015), in Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 117/2 (2018), 255-256. ISSN: 1945-662X.
  • Marco Santagata, Dante: The Story of His Life (Harvard: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2016), in Renaissance Quarterly, 70/3 (2017), 1203-1205. ISSN: 0034-4338.
  • Francesco Ciabattoni, Elsa Filosa, and Kristina Olson, Boccaccio 1313-2013 (Ravenna: Longo, 2015), in Studi sul Boccaccio XLIV (2016), 429-432.
  • Katherine A. Brown, Boccaccio’s Fabliaux: Medieval Short Stories and the Function of Reversal (Gainesville, FL.: University Press of Florida, 2014), in Times Literary Supplement No. 5844, April 3 2015, p. 25.
  • Maria Luisa Ardizzone, Dante: il paradigma intellettuale: un'inventio degli anni fiorentini (Florence: Olschki, 2011), in Medium Ævum LXXXIV.I (2015), 186-187.
  • Martin Eisner, Boccaccio and the Invention of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch, Cavalcanti, and the Authority of the Vernacular (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), in Medium Ævum LXXXIV.I (2015), 187-188.
  • Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron, a cura di A. Quondam, M. Fiorilla, e G. Alfano (Milano: BUR, 2013), in Studi sul Boccaccio XLII (2014).
  • Giovanni Boccaccio, Decameron, a cura di V. Mouchet (Roma: Salerno, 2006), in Heliotropia 11.1-2 (2014), pp. 175-178.
  • George Edmondson, The Neighboring Text: Chaucer Boccaccio, Henryson (Notre Dame, IN.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011), in Review of English Studies 63 (2012), 146-147.
  • Giovanni Boccaccio, The Latin Eclogues, trans. by David R. Slavitt (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010), in Studi sul Boccaccio 39 (2011), pp. 416-418.
  • Victoria Kirkham and Armando Maggi, (eds), Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works, (Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2009), in Italian Studies 67 (2012), 152-153. (ISSN: 0075-1634)
  • Rita Copeland and Peter T. Struck, (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Allegory, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), in Notes & Queries 59 (2012), 112-113. (ISSN: 0029-3970).
  • Rhiannon Daniels, Boccaccio and the Book: Production and Reading in Italy 1340-1520, Italian Perspectives 19 (Oxford: Legenda, 2009), forthcoming in Medium Ævum LXXIX.2 (2010), 387-388. ISSN: 0025-8385.
  • Guy P. Raffa, The Complete Danteworlds: A Reader's Guide to the Divine Comedy (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press), in Notes and Queries 57 (2010), 580-581. ISSN: 0029-3970. (DOI: 10.1093/notesj/gjq170) [link] 
  • Jason M. Houston, Building a Monument to Dante: Boccaccio as Dantista (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010), in Studi sul Boccaccio 32 (2010), 326-329. ISSN: 0585-4997.
  • Carol Falvo Heffernan, Comedy in Chaucer and Boccaccio (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2009), in Review of English Studies, 61 (2010), 631-632. ISSN: 00346551. (DOI: 10.1093/res/hgq039) [link]
  • Teodolinda Barolini, Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture (New York: Fordham University Press, 2006), in Heliotropia, 7, 1-2, (2010), 163-167. ISSN: 1542-3352. [PDF]
  • Esther Casier Quinn, Geoffrey Chaucer and the Poetics of Disguise (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2008), in Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 32 (2010), 454-457. ISSN: 0190-2407.
  • Nick Havely, Dante, Blackwell Guides to Literature (Oxford; New Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2007) in Notes and Queries, 56 (2009), 643-644. ISSN 0029-3970.(DOI: doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjp174) [link] 
  • Albert Russell Ascoli, Dante and the Making of a Modern Author (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) in Review of English Studies, NS 60 (2009), 806-808. ISSN: 00346551 (DOI: 10.1093/res/hgp038) [link]
  • Robert M. Correale & Mary Hamel (eds), Sources and Analogues of the Canterbury Tales II, Chaucer Studies 35 (Cambridge: Brewer, 2005) in Notes & Queries, NS 55 (2008), 523-524. ISSN 0029-3970
  • John M. Fyler, Language and the Declining World in Chaucer, Dante and Jean de Meun, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, 63 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), in Review of English Studies, NS 59 (2008), 456-457.  ISSN 00346551
  • Marion Turner, Chaucerian Conflict: Language of Antagonism in Late Fourteenth-Century London, Oxford English Monographs (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2007), in Review of English Studies, NS 58 (2007), 555-557. ISSN 00346551
  • Alcuin Blamires, Chaucer, Ethics, and Gender (Oxford: Oxford University Press), in Review of English Studies, NS 57 (2006), 796-798. ISSN 00346551.
  • John A. Scott, Understanding Dante, The William and Katherine Devers Series in Dante Studies, v. 6 (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004), in The Sixteenth Century Journal, 37 (2006), 912-913. ISSN 03610160 
Shorter notices in Medium Ævum LXXIX.2 (2010), 372; LXXXI.1 (2012), 189-190, 191-192.