CURRICULUM VITAE

Victoria Kirkham

Department of Romance Languages 604 S. Washington Square

521 Williams Hall Hopkinson House, Apt. 207

University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19106

Philadelphia, PA 19104 fax 215-627-3885

tel. 215-898-6028

fax 215-898-0933

e-mail: vkirkham@.sas.upenn.edu

Education

Wellesley College (Italian and French), B.A., 1964.

Università Statale di Milano (part time student), 1964-65.

University of Illinois (Italian), M.A., 1967.

Johns Hopkins University (Romance Languages), M.A., 1969; Ph.D., 1972.

Doctoral dissertation: "The Filocolo of Giovanni Boccaccio with an English Translation of the Thirteen Questioni d'amore," Director, Charles S. Singleton.

Teaching Positions

Full Professor, Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania, 1994 -

Associate Professor, Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania, 1978-94.

Graduate Group, Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania, 1978 -

Assistant Professor, Romance Languages, University of Pennsylvania, 1972-78.

Assistant Professor, Italian, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1970-72.

Teaching Assistant, Italian Literature, Johns Hopkins University, 1967-70.

Teaching Assistant, Italian Language, University of Illinois at Urbana, 1965-67.

Fulbright Teaching Assistant of English, Istituto Tecnico Industriale Statale "Omar," Novara, Italy, 1964-65.

Visiting Professor:

Johns Hopkins Univ., spring semester, 1999, for a weekly graduate seminar: Women in Poetry: From the Troubadors to the Petrarchans.

Honors and Awards

Pendleton Scholarship, 1960-64, Wellesley College.

Fulbright Teaching Assistantship of English, Novara, Italy, 1964-65.

NDEA Graduate Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 1967-70.

University of Pennsylvania Junior Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, 1974.

I Tatti Fellow, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, 1977-78. Project: "Boccaccio's Numerology."

Lilly Endowment Fellow, one of three faculty members selected to represent the University of Pennsylvania at the National Lilly Endowment Workshop in the Liberal Arts, Colorado Springs, July, 1978. (Our project subsequently won a $600,000 grant for undergraduate education at Penn from the Exxon Foundation.)

University of Pennsylvania Center for Italian Studies, Travel and Research grant to Italy from L'Aquila Fund, to consult manuscripts containing portraits of Boccaccio, for Boccaccio Visualizzato, June, 1985.

Visiting Scholar, The Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, Santa Monica, California, for Boccaccio visualizzato, Feb., 1987.

New undergraduate course proposal, "The Medieval Reader," selected for $3,000 Faculty Summer Development Award, 1987, by School of Arts and Sciences.

I Tatti Visiting Professor, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, 1988-89. Project: "Authorial Iconography in the Renaissance."

Elected President, American Boccaccio Association, 1988-90; re-elected President, 1990-92.

University of Pennsylvania Provost's Research Foundation, Faculty Grant of $23,000 awarded to Ivy Corfis and Victoria Kirkham for Penn Text-Image Project, 1989-1991.

University of Pennsylvania, Center for Italian Studies, Salvatori Fund travel grant to present a paper at the conference of the Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana, "Literature and Industry," Turin, Italy, May, 1994.

Visiting Professor, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Jan.-June, 1996. Project: "A Literary Biography of Laura Battiferra."

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1996. Project: "Dante's Phantom, Petrarch's Specter: A Literary Biography of Laura Battiferra." (Interrupted by medical leave and chemotherapy; the last quarter was postponed until early 1997.)

Academic Advisory Board, Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence (Villa I Tatti), 1998-2002.

Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship in Gender Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, Newberry Library, Sept. 1, 2000 - June 30, 2001. Project: "Creative Partners: The Artful Marriage of Laura Battiferra and Bartolomeo Ammannati."

Winner of the Modern Language Association's Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies, for Fabulous Vernacular: Boccaccio's Filocolo and the Art of Medieval Fiction for 2000, University of Michigan Press, 2001.

Collaborative Research Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, "A Tradition Discovered: Women Writers in Italy, France, and Germany 1400-1750," to support work on Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati and her Circle: Selected Poetry, Prose, and Letters, ed. and trans. with intro. and comm. by Victoria Kirkham. May 1, 2002 - April 30, 2003. Project Coordinator, Albert Rabil.

Invited by President and Governing Committee of the Italian Ente Nazionale Giovanni Boccaccio to join the Comitato di Consulenza Scientifica (Academic Advisory Committee), March, 2005.

Guggenheim Fellowship, 2005-2006. Project: "The Marriage of Laura Battiferra and Bartolomeo Ammannati."

Publications

Books

Diana's Hunt. La Caccia di Diana. Boccaccio's First Fiction. Pp. 255. With Introduction (pp. 3-95), Commentary, and Glossaries, ed. and trans. (with Anthony K. Cassell). Middle Ages Series. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991, 255 pp.

Reviewed:

Il Messaggero, by Vittore Branca,16 Sept., 1991.

Lettere Italiane 43 (1991): 480-81.

Parergon 9.2, Max Staples (1991):144-47.

Journal of Medieval History 17.3 (1991): 277.

Studi sul Boccaccio, by Anna Laura Lepschy 20 (1991-92): 423.

Italian Studies, by Jonathan Usher, 47 (1992): 96.

Medium Aevum, by G. H. McWilliam, 61.2 (1992): 350-51.

Italica 71.1, by Eugenio L. Giusti (Spr., 1994): 121-23.

Le Moyen Age 102.2 (1996): 367-69.

Reprinted: Permission granted for reprinting of Introduction, pp. 3-95, to Gale Research, Inc., of Detroit, Michigan, 1995.

The Sign of Reason in Boccaccio's Fiction. Pp. 283. Biblioteca di Lettere Italiane. Studi e Testi, no. 43. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1993.

Reviewed:

Speculum, by Janet Levarie Smarr, 70.3 (July, 1995): 641-43.

Studi sul Boccaccio, by Giuseppe Chiecchi, 23 (1995): 284-87.

MLN, by Pier Massimo Forni, 111.1 (Jan., 1996): 171-80.

Fabulous Vernacular: Boccaccio's Filocolo and the Art of Medieval Fiction. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001. Winner of the MLA Scaglione Prize for a Manuscript in Italian Studies.

Reviewed:

Il Sole-24 Ore, by Vittore Branca, July 15, 2001.

Choice, by Steven Botterill, Dec., 2001

Chronicle of Higher Education, Aug. 10, 2001.

Rassegna della Letteratura Italiana, by Luca Marcozzi, Ser. IX. 106.2 (2002): 588-89.

Renaissance Quarterly, by Mauda Bregoli-Russo, 55.4 (2002): 1380-82.

Italica, by Janet Smarr, 80.1 (2003): 91-92.

Speculum

Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati and her Literary Circle: An Anthology. An anthology with translations, introduction, and commentary of poetry by Laura Battiferra (1523-1589) and her literary correspondents. "The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe," Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Reviewed:

Il Sole 24 Ore, by Carlo Ossola, Dec. 17, 2006.

Lettere Italiane, by Carlo Ossola, 2007.

Renaissance Quarterly, by Virginia Cox, 60.1 (2007): 163-64.

Romance Quarterly, by Renzo Bragantini, 54.3 (2007): 255-58.

Monograph

"L'immagine del Boccaccio nella memoria tardo-gotica e rinascimentale." Essay with catalogue of Boccaccio's Renaissance portraits for a three-volume publication by an international team of scholars, Boccaccio visualizzato: Narrare per parole e per immagini fra Medioevo e Rinascimento, ed. Vittore Branca. 3 vols. Turin: Einaudi, 1999, 1: 85-144.

Reviewed:

Corriere della Sera, by Cesare Segre, Apr. 11, 2000.

Works Edited

Boccaccio 1990. The Poet and his Renaissance Reception (with Kevin Brownlee). For a special double issue of Studi sul Boccaccio 20 (1991-92): 166-397. Selected papers from the conference "Boccaccio 1990," Univ. of Pennsylvania, Oct., 1990.

Pamela Benson and Victoria Kirkham, co-editors. Strong Voices, Weak History: Early Women Writers and Canons in England, France, and Italy. Proceedings of the conference "Strong Voices, Weak History: Medieval and Renassance Women in their Literary Canons. England, France, Italy." Univ. of Pennsylvania, March, 2000. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Reviewed:

Journal of the American Academy of Religion, by Heather Campbell, 75 2007): 704-706.

Renaissance Studies, by Sarah M. Dunnigan, 21.1 (2007): 136-38.

Sixteenth Century Journal, by Judy Kem, 38.1 (2007): 285-86.

In progress:

Petrarch: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works, ed. Victoria Kirkham and Armando Maggi. Volume collecting one essay on each of Petrarch's major works by an international team of scholars. Forthcoming, University of Chicago Press, Dec., 2008.

The Decameron: Second Day in Perspective. Readings Sponsored by the American Boccaccio Association. Essays by ten scholars on the ten tales of the second Day of the Decameron, from readings that I arranged at national conferences during 1990-1993, for the Lectura Boccaccii series, an ABA project to sponsor and publish readings of all the tales in the Decameron in ten volumes. The first volume has been accepted by the University of Toronto Press; vol. 2 is pending.

Published Lecture

Dante, the Book Glutton, or, Food for Thought from Italian Poets. Invited talk for the Bernardo Lecture Series, State University of New York at Binghamton, October, 2002. Binghamton: Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2004.

Articles

"Reckoning with Boccaccio's Questioni d'amore," MLN 89.4 (1974): 47-59.

Reviewed:

Studi sul Boccaccio 13 (1981-82): 405-406.

"Amore e virtù: Two Salvers Depicting Boccaccio's Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine in the Metropolitan Museum" (with Paul F. Watson), Metropolitan Museum Journal 10 (1975): 35-50.

Reviewed:

Studi sul Boccaccio 13 (1981-82): 406.

"Numerology and Allegory in Boccaccio's Caccia di Diana," Traditio 34 (1978): 303-29.

Reviewed:

Studi sul Boccaccio 13 (1981-82): 406-407.

"Love's Labors Rewarded and Paradise Lost (Decameron III,10)," The Romanic Review 72.1 (Jan., 1981): 79-93.

"'Chiuso parlare' in Boccaccio's Teseida." In Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio. Studies in the Italian Trecento in Honor of Charles S. Singleton, edited by Aldo S. Bernardo and Anthony L. Pellegrini, 305-51. Binghamton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1983.

Reviewed:

… Fredi Chiappelli

"Painters at Play on the Judgment Day (Decameron VIII, 9)," Studi sul Boccaccio 14 (1983-84): 256-77.

"An Allegorically Tempered Decameron," Italica 82.1 (Spr., 1985): 1-23.

"Boccaccio's Dedication to Women in Love." In Renaissance Studies in Honor of Craig Hugh Smyth, edited by Andrew Morrogh, Fiorella Superbi Gioffredi, Piero Morselli, Eve Borsook, 1: 333-43. 2 vols. Florence: Giunti Barbéra, 1985.

"Savonarola and Castiglione at Philadelphia's Rosenbach," Lettere Italiane 38.4 (1986): 514-24.

"A Preliminary List of Boccaccio Portraits from the 14th to the Mid-16th Centuries," in Vittore Branca, Paul F. Watson, and Victoria Kirkham, "Boccaccio visualizzato I," Studi sul Boccaccio 15 (1985-86): 167-88.

"The Word, The Flesh, and the Decameron," Romance Philology 41.2 (Nov., 1987): 127-49.

Reprinted:

Short Story Criticism, ed. Dave Segal. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1993.

"Reflections on the 'Arabic' World: Boccaccio's Ninth Stories" (with María Rosa Menocal), Stanford Italian Review 7.1-2 (1987): 95-110.

"First Addenda and Corrigenda to A Preliminary List of Boccaccio Portraits," in Vittore Branca, Susy Marcon, Paul F. Watson, Victoria Kirkham, "Boccaccio visualizzato II," Studi sul Boccaccio 16 (1987): 275-83.

"Renaissance Portraits of Boccaccio: A Look into the Kaleidoscope," Studi sul Boccaccio 16 (1987): 284-305.

"I quindici gradi del regno di Catone." In Letteratura italiana e arti figurative. Atti del XII Convegno dell'Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana. Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal, 6-10 maggio, 1985, edited by Antonio Franceschetti, 229-36. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1988.

"Eleven is for Evil: Measured Trespass in Dante's Commedia," Allegorica 10 (1989): 27-50.

"Quanto in femmina foco d'amor dura!" Letture Classensi 18 (1989): 235-52.

Reviewed:

Maria Corti, "Il dantismo americano: tra poeti e critici," La rivista dei libri, Dec., 1991.

"A Canon of Women in Dante's Commedia," Annali d'Italianistica 7 (1989): 16-41.

"The Last Tale in the Decameron," Mediaevalia 12 (1992 for 1989): 205-23.

"The Classic Bond of Friendship in Boccaccio's Tito and Gisippo (Decameron X,8)," inThe Classics in the Middle Ages. Papers of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, edited by Aldo S. Bernardo and Saul Levin, 223-35. Binghamton: Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies 69, 1990.

"The Parallel Lives of Dante and Virgil," Dante Studies 110 (1992): 233-53.

"Purgatorio 28." In Dante's Divine Comedy. Introductory Readings II: Purgatorio, ed. Tibor Wlassics. Special issue of Lectura Dantis 12, supplement (Spr., 1993): 411-32.

"John Badmouth: Fortunes of the Poet's Image." In Boccaccio 1990. The Poet and his Renaissance Reception, ed. Kevin Brownlee and Victoria Kirkham, Studi sul Boccaccio 20 (1991-92): 355-76.

"The Word, the Flesh, and the Decameron," reprinted from Romance Philology 41 (1987). In Short Story Criticism, ed. Dave Segal. Detroit: Gale Research, Inc., 1993.

"Morale," in Lessico critico decameroniano, edited by Renzo Bragantini and Pier Massimo Forni, 249-68. Turin: Bollati Boringhieri Editore, 1995.

"Dante's Polysynchrony: A Perfectly Timed Entry into Eden," Filologia e Critica. Special issue, "To Charles S. Singleton, In Memoriam," 20.2-3 (May-Dec., 1995): 329-52.

"The Autograph of Laura Battiferra's Canzoniere," Lettere italiane, 1996, no. 2, 252-53.

"Breve storia del chianti <<Boccaccio>>," in Letteratura e industria. Atti del XV Convegno dell'Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e di Letteratura Italiana. Torino, 14-18 maggio, 1994, edited by Giorgio Barberi-Squarotti and Carlo Ossola, 1217-26. Florence: Olschki, 1997.

"Laura Battiferra's 'First Book' of Poetry: A Renaissance Holograph Comes out of Hiding," Rinascimento, n.s., 35 (1996): 351-91.

"A Pedigree for Courtesy, or, How Dante's Purser Cured a Miser (Decameron I,8)," Studi sul Boccaccio 25 (1997): 213-38.

"Decoration and Iconography of Lydgate's Fall of Princes (De casibus virorum illustrium) at the Philadelphia Rosenbach," Studi sul Boccaccio 25 (1997): 297-310.

"Iohannes de Boccaccio: La firma dell'autore," in Atti del Convegno "Gli Zibaldoni di Boccaccio: memoria, scrittura, riscrittura." Florence: Franco Cesati Editore, 1998, pp. 455-68.

"Dante's Phantom, Petrarch's Specter: Bronzino's Portrait of Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati," in "Visibile parlare: Images of Dante in the Renaissance," edited by Deborah Parker. A special issue of Lectura Dantis 22-23 (Spr.-Fall, 1998): 63-139.

"The Fall of Princes (De casibus virorum illustrium), libera traduzione inglese in versi di John Lydgate. Filadelfia, Rosenbach Museum and Library, Ms. 439/16." In Boccaccio visualizzato. Turin: Giulio Einaudi, 1999, 3: 283-86.

"'BV': Boccaccio visualizzato (and Branca, Vittore, of course)." Italian Quarterly 37.143-46 (Fall, 2000): 13-14. Special Issue on Vittore Branca, edited by Laura Sanguineti White.

"Early Portraits of Boccaccio. A Doorway to the Decameron," in Approaches to Teaching Boccaccio's Decameron, ed. James McGregor. New York: Modern Language Association, 2000, 149-63.

"Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati benefattrice dei Gesuiti fiorentini," in Committenza artistica femminile, edited by Sara F. Matthews Grieco and Gabriella Zarri, 331-54. Quaderni storici, 104.2 (2000).

"Cosimo and Eleonora in Shepherdland: A Lost Eclogue by Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati" (essay with an edition and translation of the eclogue), in The Cultural Politics of Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, edited by Konrad Eisenbichler, 149-75. Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2001.

"Poetic Ideals of Love and Beauty," in Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo's "Gineva de' Benci" and Renaissance Portraits of Women," edited by David Alan Brown, 48-60. Washington and Princeton: National Gallery of Art and Princeton University Press, 2001.

"Creative Partners: The Marriage of Laura Battiferra and Bartolomeo Ammannati." Renaissance Quarterly 55 (2002): 498-558.

"La poetessa al presepio: Una meditazione inedita di Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati," Edition and literary analysis of a long prose prayer inspired by the Spiritual Exercises of Loyola (Macerata, Biblioteca Comunale Mozzi-Borgetti, cod. 137). Filologia e critica 27.2 (2002): 258-76.

"Il canonista e la sua dama: Iconografia della Fiammetta, in Autori e lettori di Boccaccio. Atti del Convegno internazionale di Certaldo (20-22 settembre 2001), edited by Michelangelo Picone, 377-86. Florence: Franco Cesati Editore, 2002.

"The Tale of Guiglielmo Borsiere (I,8)," in The Decameron First Day in Perspective. Volume One of the Lectura Boccaccii, edited by Elissa B. Weaver, 179-206. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.

"Dante's Ravenna and Antonioni's Red Desert," in Dante, Cinema, and Television, edited by Amilcare Iannucci, 106-28. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004.

"Sappho on the Arno: The Brief Fame of Laura Battiferra," in Strong Voices, Weak History: Early Women Writers and Canons in England, France, and Italy, edited by Pamela Benson and Victoria Kirkham, 176-98. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.

"Benigni's Storehouse of Culture," in Beyond Life is Beautiful: Comedy and Tragedy in the Cinema of Roberto Benigni, edited by Grace Russo Bullaro, 152-76. Leicester: Troubador Publishing Ltd., 2005.

Victoria Kirkham and Jennifer Tonkovich, "How Petrarch Became Boccaccio: A Bronze Bust from the Morgan Library." Studi sul Boccaccio 33 (2005): 269-98. By invitation, special commemorative issue for Vittore Branca, 2005.

"Maria a.k.a. Fiammetta: The Men Behind the Woman." In Boccaccio and Feminist Criticism, ed. Thomas C. Stillinger and Regina Psaki, 13-27. Studi & Testi no. 8. Chapel Hill, NC: Annali d'Italianistica, 2006.

Forthcoming:

"Petrarch, Boccaccio, and the Paduan Jurist: Plague Tales by Marco Mantova Benavides." In Festschrift for Christopher Kleinhenz, ed. Fabian Alfie. Tempe, AZ: MRTS (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies), forthcoming.

“Petrarchismo e storia europea: I sonetti alati di Laura Battiferra.” Forthcoming in proceedings of the Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letterature Italiana, Trieste-Capodistria-Padova-Pola, 19-24 September, 2006.

“The Unboxable Boccaccio.” In Reinventing History: Italian Literature Between Philology and Theory, ed. Fabio Finotti and H. Wayne Storey. In proceedings of the Fourth Annual Joseph and Elda Coccia Conference, University of Pennsylvania, Dec., 2007, Leiden: Brill, forthcoming.

“The Cook’s Decameron, or, Boccaccio to the Rescue of the British Diet.” Forthcoming Studi sul Boccaccio, 2009.

“Il poeta visualizzato.” Forthcoming among papers from the conference “Vittore Branca e Boccaccio,” Certaldo, May, 2008, in Studi sul Boccaccio.

“La sorellanza lirica (RVF 70-72) nella tradizione dei commenti da Bembo a Tasso.” Atti del Convegno Internazionale, Université de Genève, Il poeta e il suo pubblico. Lettura e commento dei testi poetici nel Cinquecento.” Geneva, May 15-17, 2008.

Encyclopedia Articles

The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, ed. Gaetana Marrone and Paolo Puppa. New York-London: Routledge, 2007: 1: 239-61. All entries for Boccaccio: "Boccaccio, Giovanni," "Boccaccio's Latin Works," "Decameron," "Filocolo," "Filostrato," "Teseida"; also "Battiferri Ammannati, Laura," 1:143-45.

Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance. Italy, France, England. ed. Diana Robin. Santa Barbara, Cal.: ABC-CLIO, 2007, 1: 143-45. "Battiferra Ammannati, Laura."

The Classical Tradition, ed. Anthony Grafton, Glen Most, and Salvatore Settis. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007: "Giovanni Boccaccio." (forthcoming).

In Memoriam:

"Vittore Branca (Savona, 1913 - Venice, 2004): In memoriam." American Boccaccio Association Newsletter, Spr., 2005; online link through Heliotropia 2.2 (2004): http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/heliotropia/abanews.shtml. 1,237 words.

Anthony Kimber Cassell (March 31, 1941 - October 9, 2005). Modern Language Notes 121.1 (Jan., 2006): 49-52.

"In memoriam: Vittore Branca." Teodolinda Barolini, Robert Hollander, Victoria Kirkham. Speculum, 2006.

Review Articles

"Two New Translations: The Early Boccaccio in English Dress," Italica 70.1 (Spr., 1993): 79-89.

Maurizio Vitale and Vittore Branca, Il capolavoro del Boccaccio e due diverse redazioni, in an online forum for Boccaccio research and interpretation, Heliotropia 2.1 (Summer, 2004): 57,430 bytes.

Reviews

André Rochon, ed. Ville et campagne dans la littérature italienne de la Renaissance: Le Paysan travesti. Paris: Univ. de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, 1976. In Bibliothèque d'Humanisme et de Renaissance 40 (1978): 57-61.

Robert S. Dombroski, ed. Critical Perspectives on the Decameron. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1976, and

Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron. A New Translation. 21 Novelle, Contemporary Reactions, Modern Criticism. Sel., tr., and ed. Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella. New York: Norton, 1977. In Italica 57.3 (Fall, 1980): 208-210.

Thomas G. Bergin. Boccaccio. New York: Viking, 1981. In American Boccaccio Association Newsletter, Fall, 1982.

Marga Cottino-Jones. Order From Chaos. Social and Aesthetic Harmonies in Boccaccio's Decameron. Washington, D.C.: Univ. Press of America, 1982. In Italica 61.4 (Winter, 1984): 353-54.

Alfonso Paolella. Rettorica e racconto. Argomentazione e finzione nel Novellino. Naples: Liguori, 1987. Speculum 64.4 (1989): 1019-21.

David Anderson, Before the Knight's Tale: Imitation in Classical Epic. Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1988. In Studi sul Boccaccio 17 (1989): 407-409.

John Guzzardo, Dante: Numerological Studies. New York: Peter Lang, 1987. In Lectura Dantis 7 (1990): 146-48.

Francesco Bruni, Boccaccio e l'invenzione della letteratura mezzana. In Speculum 68.1 (Jan., 1993): 113-16.

Ciccuto, Marcello. Figure di Petrarca. Giotto, Simone Martini, Franco Bolognese. Naples: Federico & Ardia, 1991. Speculum 69.1 (Jan., 1994): 123-24.

Giuseppe Mazzotta, The World at Play in Boccaccio's Decameron. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1986. Renaissance Quarterly 7.2 (Aut., 1994): 653-56.

Grossvogel, Stephen. Ambiguity and Allusion in Boccaccio's Filocolo. Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 1992. Speculum 70.2 (Apr., 1995): 376-78.

Forni, Pier Massimo. Adventures in Speech. Rhetoric and Narration in Boccaccio's Decameron. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996. Renaissance Quarterly 51.2 (Sum., 1998): 613-14.

Ricketts, Jill M. Visualizing Boccaccio. Studies on Illustrations of The Decameron from Giotto to Pasolini. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Renaissance Quarterly 51.4 (Win., 1998): 1352-53.

Eugenio L. Giusti. Dall'amore cortese alla comprensione. Il viaggio ideologico di Giovanni Boccaccio dalla <<Caccia di Diana>> al <<Decameron>>. Milan: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diritto, 1999. Quaderni d'Italianistica, 2001.

Grignani, Maria Antonietta, ed. Isabella Morra, Rime. Rome: Salderno Editrice, 2000; and

Mitchell, Irene Musillo, ed. Isabella Morra, Canzoniere. A Bilingual Edition. West Lafayette, IN: Bordighera Press, 1998. Quaderni d'Italianistica 22.1 (2001): 161-64.

Deborah Parker, Bronzino. Renaissance Painter as Poet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. 233. Renaissance Quarterly 55 (2002): 698-99.

Pedroni, Matteo, and Antonio Stäuble, eds., Il genere "Tenzone" nelle letterature romanze delle Origini. Memoria del Tempo. Collana di studi e testi medievali e rinascimentali diretta da Michelangelo Picone, 15. Ravenna: Longo, 1999. Quaderni d'Italianistica 22.1 (2001): 166-67.

Italo Pantano. "La fonte di ogni eloquenzia": Il canzoniere petrarchesco nella cultura poetica del Quattrocento ferrarese. Rome: Bulzoni, 2002. Renaissance Quarterly 57.1 (Spr, , 2004): 170-71.

Guido Casoni, Della magia d'amore, ed. Armando Maggi. Palermo: Sellerio editore, 2003. Italica 82.1 (2005): 127-29. (published 2006)

Patrizia Bettella, The Ugly Woman: Transgressive Aesthetic Models in Italian Poetry from the Middle Ages to the Baroque. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. Renaissance Studies 21.2 (2007): 134-36.

In progress:

Elissa B. Weaver, Convent Theater in Early Modern Italy. Spiritual Fun and Learning for Women. Cambridge Studies in Italian History and Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Italian Culture.

Roush, Sherry, Hermes' Lyre: Italian Poetic Self-Commentary from Dante to Tommaso Campanella. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Kennedy, William J. The Site of Petrarchism. Early Modern National Sentiment in Italy, France, and England. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003.

Certaldo: Poesia del Medioevo. Alla scoperta delle chiese, delle torri, dei palazzi nel paese di Giovanni Boccaccio, ed. Francesca Allegri and Massimo Tosi, Intro. Robert Hollander. Certaldo: Federighi Editore, 2002.

Research in Progress

Books

Creative Partners: The Marriage of Laura Battiferra and Bartolomeo Ammannati.

A joint biography of an early modern creative couple, an eminent women poet (d. 1589) and her husband, a distinguished sculptor and architect (d. 1592), whose marriage is a microhistory of Catholic Reformation Italy.

Dante Quintet. A volume integrating Dante essays previously published with long chapters presenting new material Dante's Renaissance portraits and lives in the context of the emerging canon of the Three Crowns of Florence; an illustrated historiography of maps of Dante's Inferno, 15th-20th c. Appendix with my translation of a medieval treatise on numbers, Rabanus Maurus, "De numero," from his De universo.

Articles

"Morante vs. Moravia, or, Two Women who Became History."

"Virgils in Skirts. Female Personification of 'Manly Reason' from Antiquity to the Late Renaissance."

Papers Presented

"The Moral Lesson of Boccaccio's 'Most Immoral' Tale," Medieval Studies Group, Univ. of Pennsylvania, 1974.

"Boccaccio's First Numerical Composition," Northeast Modern Language Assoc., Montreal, Apr., 1975.

"The Numerology of Marriage in Boccaccio's Teseida," session for the 600th Anniversary of Boccaccio's Death, Midwest Modern Language Assoc., Chicago, Nov., 1975.

"Boccaccio's Decameron: The Hundred and First Tale," invited lecture, Bryn Mawr College, 1975.

"Numerology and Allegory in Boccaccio's Teseida," Renaissance Seminar, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Nov., 1975.

"Learning From Alibech, Rustico, and Dioneo," American Boccaccio Assoc., Modern Language Assoc., San Francisco, Dec., 1975.

"Numerology in Boccaccio's Decameron," symposium on "Joyful Symmetry: Measure and Pattern in Renaissance Literature," Amherst College, Jan, 1977.

"Boccaccio's Numerology," Villa I Tatti, Florence, Spr., 1978.

"On Number and Time in the Decameron," Middle Atlantic Renaissance Conf., Bryn Mawr College, 1978.

"The Numerological Calendar of Boccaccio's Decameron," invited lecture, Wayne State Univ., Detroit, 1978.

"The 'Vanti del pavone' in the Filocolo: Juno's Bird and a Bride to Be," International Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1979.

"Maestro Simone and the Day of Judgment (Decameron VIII,9)," American Assoc. Univ. Professors of Italian, Urbana, 1980.

"'History' Twice Told: Moravia and Morante's 'Two Women'," Modern Language Assoc., Houston, Dec., 1980.

"The Women in the Divine Comedy," invited lecture, Ohio Wesleyan Univ., 1981.

"Boccaccio's Amorosa visione Reconsidered," Midwest Modern Language Assoc., Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, 1981.

"Painters at Play in the Decameron," invited lecture co-sponsored by Romance Languages and History of Art, Univ. of Chicago, May, 1982.

"The Word, the Flesh, and the Decameron," Midwest Modern Lang. Assoc., Cincinnati, Nov., 1982.

"The Male Narrators of the Decameron Reconsidered," American Boccaccio Assoc., Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, Dec., 1982.

"Seven Suggestions for Skunking the Skeptics," Colloquium, Dept. of Romance Languages, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Feb., 1983.

"Painters at Play in Boccaccio's Decameron," invited lecture, Elvehjem Museum of Art, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, 1983.

"Pseudonyms into Symbols: the Decameron's Seven Virtue Narrators," Midwest Modern Language Assoc., Minneapolis, 1983.

"Boccaccio's Dedication to Women in Love," American Assoc. of Italian Studies, Tampa, Fla., Apr., 1985.

"I quindici gradi del regno di Catone," Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana, Toronto, May, 1985.

"The Last Tale in the Decameron," New England Renaissance Society, Amherst, Mass., Nov., 1985.

"Dante's Purgatorial Ladder to Heaven," Modern Language Association, Chicago, Dec., 1985.

"Boccaccio's 'Arabic World': The Ninth Tales in the Decameron" (with María Rosa Menocal), American Boccaccio Assoc., Modern Language Association, Chicago, Dec., 1985.

"Renaissance Portraits of Boccaccio: A Look into the Kaleidoscope," Renaissance Society of America, Philadelphia, Mar., 1986.

"The Poet as Peacock: What Dante's Mother Dreamed in Boccaccio's Trattatello," International Medieval Institute, Kalamazoo, May, 1986.

"The Classic Bond of Friendship in Boccaccio's Tito and Gisippo (Decameron X,8)," 20th Annual Conference, Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, Binghamton, NY, Oct., 1986.

"Renaissance Portraits of Boccaccio: Views of the Poet and a Visual Genre," invited lecture, Johns Hopkins Univ., Nov., 1986.

"Boccaccio Visualized: Renaissance Portraits of Boccaccio," Univ. of Pennsylvania Renaissance Seminar, Nov., 1986.

"The Renaissance Portraits of Boccaccio: Views of the Author anad a Visual Genre," invited lecture for Renaissance and Reformation Studies and Department of Italian, McGill Univ., Montreal, Feb., 1987.

"Boccaccio visualizzato," Colloquium presented with Vittore Branca, Department of Italian, Univ. of California at Los Angeles, Feb., 1987.

"The First Monument to Dante: A Modern for the Ages," Conference on "The Legitimacy of the Middle Ages," Univ. of Pennsylvania, Mar., 1987.

"Boccaccio's Griselda and the Trecento Virtue of Humility," American Assoc. of Italian Studies, Pittsburgh, Apr., 1987.

"Boccaccio illustrato" (on the "Penn Boccaccio Project"), Colloque/Convegno: Le Riviste di Italianistica nel Mondo, Associazione Internazionale per gli Studi di Lingua e Letteratura Italiana, Université de Paris-Sorbonne - Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris, June, 1987.

"Lectura Boccaccii: Decameron I,8," American Boccaccio Assoc., Modern Language Association, San Francisco, Dec., 1987.

"Renaissance Portraits of Boccaccio," invited lecture, Bryn Mawr College, Feb. 1987.

"The Penn Boccaccio Project," American Assoc. of Italian Studies, Provo, Utah, Apr., 1988.

"Accounting for Females in Dante's Commedia," American Assoc. of Italian Studies, Brigham Young Univ., Apr., 1988.

"Counting Women in Dante's Commedia," invited lecture, Cornell Univ., Apr., 1988.

"Quanto in femmina foco d'amor dura!" Giornata Internazionale di Studi in Onore di Charles S. Singleton, 667th Anniversary of Dante's Death, Opera di Dante, Ravenna, Italy, Sept., 1988.

"Quanto in femmina foco d'amor dura! Le donne nella Divina Commedia," Dipartimento di Italianistica, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Jan., 1989.

-----------, Istituto di Filologia e Letteratura Italiana, Università di Padova, Padua, Apr., 1989.

-----------, Dipartimento di Italianistica e Filologia Moderna, Università di Venezia, Venice, Apr., 1989.

"Under the Laurel: Poets and their Portraits," Villa I Tatti, Florence, Apr., 1989.

"Gluttons for Books: Lore of the Poet as Bibliolator," Plenary speaker, Pennsylvania Renaissance Symposium, Philadelphia, Oct., 1989.

"The Parallel Lives of Virgil and Dante," symposium on Poetry and Scholarship in the Tradition of Virgil, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Nov., 1989.

"A Canon of Women in Dante's Commedia," roundtable on "Women's Voices in Italian Literature," American Assoc. of Teachers of Italian, Boston, Nov., 1989.

"Boccaccio's Humanism as Biographer," invited speaker, Sixth International Colloquium on Comparative Medieval Studies, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study and Conference Center at Lake Como, Italy, Nov., 1989.

"Under the Laurel. Poets in their Renaissance Portraits," invited speaker, Princeton Italian Studies Colloquium, Princeton Univ., Feb., 1990.

--------------, invited speaker, Renaissance Colloquium, Sarah Lawrence College, Apr., 1990.

"The Parallel Lives of Dante and Virgil," American Assoc. of Italian Studies, Univ. of Virginia, Apr., 1990.

"John Badmouth. Fortunes of the Poet's Image," for "Boccaccio 1990. The Poet and his Renaissance Reception," colloquium at the University of Pennsylvania, Fall, 1990.

"Dante, the Book Glutton, or, Food for Thought from Italian Writers," Univ. of Pittsburgh, invited speaker for the Nicholas G. Tucci Lecture in Italian Language and Literature, Apr., 1991.

"Dante the Book Glutton, or, Food for throught from Italian Writers," invited lecture for the Eleventh Seminar in Italian Studies, Charles S. Singlton Center for Italian Studies, Villa Spelman, Florence, June, 1991.

"Morante vs. Moravia, or, Two Women who became History," American Association of Italian Studies, Chapel Hill, Apr., 1992.

"Boccaccio and the Three Crowns of Florence," for the symposium "Making New Classics: Canon Formation in the Renaissance," Harvard Univ., Apr. 4, 1992.

"Portraits of Dante and Boccaccio in the Renaissance," invited lecture at Univ. of Maryland, Apr., 1992.

"Morality," invited lecture for the conference "Boccaccio's Decameron: Toward a Critical Lexicon," Johns Hopkins Univ., Apr., 1992.

"Gluttons for Books: Author Portraits from Dante to Benjamin Franklin," invited lecture, Univ of Chicago, May, 1992.

"An Introduction to Purgatorio: Canto 28," invited lecture for the Lectura Dantis series, Univ. of Virginia, Sept., 1992.

"Space in Dante's Inferno," invited lecture for the Univ. of Pennsylvania Ph.D. Program in Architecture, Mar., 1993.

"Four times Seven Makes Eden: Dante's Entry into the Earthly Paradise," American Association of Italian Studies, Austin, Texas, Apr., 1993.

"Vasari's Dante Society (Six Tuscan Poets)," invited lecture co-sponsored by the Medieval Studies Program and the Dept. of French and Italian, Univ. of Minnesota, Oct., 1993.

"Laura Battiferri: The Female Body as Corporate Entity," for a colloquium at the University of Pennsylvania, "The Politics of the Body in Italian Literature and Culture," Oct., 1993.

"Boccaccio's Decameron," invited lecture, NEH funded faculty series on great western authors, Community College of Philadelphia, Nov., 1993.

"Dante's Phantom, Petrarch's Specter: Bronzino's Portrait of the Poet Laura Battiferri," Colloquium on Women in the Renaissance, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., Dec., 1993.

"What did Boccaccio Look Like? Early Modern Image Storage and Transmission," conference on "The Image of Technology," Colorado Springs, Mar., 1994.

"Dante's Phantom, Petrarch's Specter: Bronzino's Portrait of the Poet Laura Battiferri," Renaissance Society of America, Dallas, Texas, Apr. 1994.

"Space in Dante's Inferno," invited paper for session sponsored by the Dante Society of America, American Association of Italian Studies, Madison, Wisc., Apr., 1994.

International Dante Colloquium, Princeton University, Oct. 1994. Invited discussant.

"Classics at the Supermarket: From the Preraphaelites to Boccaccio Chianti," American Association of Teachers of Italian, Atlanta, Nov., 1994.

"The Lost Image. Boccaccio's Likeness in Renaissance Memory," Modern Language Association, San Diego, Dec., 1994.

"Dante's Phantom, Petrarch's Specter: The Sixteenth-Century Florentine Poet Laura Battiferri," Univ. of Pennsylvania Faculty Women's Club, Feb., 1995.

"Dante's Phantom, Petrarch's Specter: Bronzino's Portrait of the Poet Laura Battiferra," American Association of Italian Studies, Tempe, Ariz., Apr., 1995.

"Pentecostal Passions: Petrarch's Debt to Boccaccio's Fiammetta?" International Medieval Conference, Kalamazoo, Mich., May, 1995.

"'Iohannes de Certaldo': la firma dell'autore," Gli Zibaldoni di Boccaccio: memoria, scrittura, riscrittura, Florence, Apr., 1996.

"In Memory of Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati: The Silenced Manuscript of her Jesuit Poetry," Renaissance Society of America, Vancouver, B.C., Apr., 1997.

"Dante's Phantom, Petrarch's Specter: Bronzino's Portrait of the Poet Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati," invited lecture, Istituto di Cultura Italiana, Allentown, PA, Oct., 1997.

"Signed Pieces: Boccaccio's Authorial Fantasy," invited colloquium for the Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Nov., 1997.

"An Italian Album Film: Dante's Ravenna and Antonioni's Red Desert," for "Cinema Across the Disciplines: A Colloquium on Film in Italian Studies," Univ. of Pennsylvania, Phildelphia, Mar., 1998.

"Creative Marriage: The Interactive Careers of Bartolomeo Ammannati and Laura Battiferra," Renaissance Society of America, College Park, MD, Mar., 1998.

"The Epistolary Web of Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati: From Sonneteer to Humanist Secretary," American Association of Italian Studies, Chicago, Apr., 1998.

"Leonardo Bruni's Parallel Lives of Dante and Petrarch," Conference on Translation and Cultural Transformation, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Mar., 1999.

"Let's Play Shepherd at the Pitti: Cosimo, Ammannati, and other Rustics in an Unpublished Eclogue by Laura Battiferra," Renaissance Society of America, Los Angeles, Mar., 1999.

"Rhymeful Moments: Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati and her Renaissance Circle," invited colloquium for the Dept. of Hispanic and Italian Studies, Johns Hopkins Univ., Apr., 1999.

"I sorrisi di Madre Chiesa e l'imbrogliato patrimonio di Laura Battiferra: La chiusura di un circolo perfetto," invited talk for a conference on women and patronage, "Committenza femminile e Patronato Muliebre in Italia all'Epoca Moderna," 29 May, 1999, Syracuse University in Florence.

"Benigni's Holocaust and the Rainbow of Culture," presented at a conference on Benigni's film La vita e' bella, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Oct., 1999.

"Seven Suggestions for Saving the Classics." Session on "The Future of Italian Studies," sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of Italian. Modern Language Association, Chicago, 1999.

"Sappho on the Arno: The Brief Fame of Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati," for the conference "Strong Voices, Weak History: Medieval and Renaissance Women in their National Literary Canons," Univ. of Pennsylvania, Mar., 2000.

"Poetry as Diplomacy: Three Sonnets by Laura Battiferra." American Association of Italian Studies, New York City, Apr., 2000.

"Creative Partners: The Artful Marriage of Laura Battiferra and Bartolomeo Ammannati," Fellows Colloquium, Newberry Library, Chicago, Oct., 2000.

"Creative Partners: The Artful Marriage of Laura Battiferra and Bartolomeo Ammannati," Renaissance Workshop, University of Chicago, Jan., 2001.

"Sappho on the Arno: A Literary Portrait of Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati (1523-1589)"; "How Shall we Restore the Ladies to Mainstream Literary History: Documents from the Battiferra File," Rockefeller Colloqium, Newberry Library, Feb. 2, 2001.

"Sappho on the Arno: The Brief Fame of Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati." Keynote speaker, University of Chicago Italian Studies Collective, Feb. 10, 2001.

"Creative Partners: The Artful Marriage of Laura Battiferra and Bartolomeo Ammannati," University of Wisconsin, Madison, Mar., 2001.

"Su nombre ornado: Poetry Dedicated to Eleonora de Toledo," Renaissance Society of America, Chicago, Mar., 2001.

"The Birth of the Tuscan Canon," paper for session on "The Italian Lyric Anthology," American Association of Italian Studies, Philadelphia, Apr., 2001.

"Il canonista e la sua dama: Iconografia della Fiammetta," Convegno Internazionale su Giovanni Boccaccio, Certaldo, Italy, Sept. 2001 (I was unable to attend due to Sept. 11, but my paper was read at the conference and is forthcoming in the proceedings.)

"How Shall We Restore the Ladies to Mainstream Literary History: Documents from the File on Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati (1523-1589)," Italian Studies Center Colloquium, Univ. of Pennsylvania, Oct., 2001.

"Boccaccio Visualized: From Self-Portrait to John Badmouth," invited lecture, Wake Forest University, Nov., 2001.

"Plague Tales from the Villa of a Paduan Jurist: Marco Mantua Benavides (1489-1582)," Modern Language Association, New Orleans, 2001.

"The Choral Lyric Anthology: Voice of the Community, Virtual Salon," Renaissance Society of America, Scottsdale, Arizona, 2002.

"Dante the Book Glutton, or, Food for Thought from Italian Poets." Invited speaker for the annual, endowed Aldo Bernardo Lecture, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, SUNY, Binghamton, October, 2002.

"Lost and Found: The Rediscovery of Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati," Invited lecture, Duke University, Feb., 2003.

"The Virtues of Heliotrope," Invited participant in session to launch the new electronic Boccaccio journal, American Association of Italian Studies, Washington, D.C., Mar., 2003.

"The Artist as Humanist: Ammannati's Intellectual Itinerary," Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, Apr., 2003.

"The Amazing Life of Bartolomeo Ammannati," Penn-Bryn Mawr Summer Program in Florence, Florence, June, 2003.

Invited participant in a Liberty Fund Colloquium, "Individual Freedom and Human Destiny in the Political Thought of Dante Alighieri," Duke University, Nov., 2003.