Boccaccio and the Consolation of Literature (In progress)

Petrarch’s Humanism and the Care of the Self. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010 (paperback 2014). (Reviewed: Renaissance Quarterly 64.1 (spring 2011): 159-60; Speculum 86.4 (2011): 1138-9; The Medieval Review 11.12.06 (2011-12); Modern Language Review 107.4 (2012): 1224; European History Quarterly 42.2 (2012): 379-80; Canadian Journal of History 47.3 (2012): 367; Italian Culture 30.2 (2012): 142-4).

“Renaissance Humanism and the Ambiguities of Modernity,” Special Issue edited with Raz Chen-Morris and Hanan Yoran, The European Legacy 20.5 (2015). 

“Love, Heroism, and Masculinity in Decameron 4.4,” in The Decameron Fourth Day in Perspective, ed. Michael Sherberg (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019), forthcoming.

"'Umana cosa è aver compassione': Boccaccio, Compassion, and the Ethics of Literature," I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 22.1 (2019): 5-20.

“Between Ghismonda and Massinissa: Boccaccio, Petrarch, and the Uses of Tragedy,” Heliotropia 15 (2018): 233-251.

“Boccaccio’s Ulysses and the Limits of Heroism,” in Astonisment: Essays on Wonder in Honor of Piero Boitani, ed. Emilia Di Rocco (Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2018), 179-195.

“Boccaccio’s Fiammetta and the Consolation of Literature,” Modern Language Notes 131.1 (2016): 1-19. 

“The Ethics and Poetics of Consolation in Petrarch’s Bucolicum carmen,” Speculum 91.1 (2016): 36-62.

“Petrarch's Griselda and the Ends of Humanism,” Le tre corone 2 (2015): 173-191.

“Renaissance Humanism and the Ambiguities of Modernity: Introduction,” (with Raz Chen-Morris and Hanan Yoran), The European Legacy 20.5 (2015): 427-435.

“Boccaccio and Petrarch,” in The Cambridge Companion to Boccaccio, eds. Steven Milner, Guyda Armstrong, Rhiannon Daniels (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 139-155.

“Petrarch and the Ancients,” in The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch, eds. Albert R. Ascoli and Unn Falkeid (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 141-154.

“Humanism as a Way of Life: Leon Battista Alberti and the Legacy of Petrarch,” I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 17.2 (2014): 217-240.

“Modes of Self-writing from Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages,” In The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature, eds. Ralph Hexter and David Townsend (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012), 485-507.

“A Humanist in Exile: Ovid’s Myth of Narcissus and the Experience of Self in Petrarch’s Secretum,’ in Metamorphosis: The Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, eds. Alison Keith and Stephen Rupp (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2007), 204-32.

“’Recollecting the Fragments of the Soul’: Narrative, Fragmentation and the History of Autobiography.’ Hamidrasha 8 (2005): 27-48. (In Hebrew).

‘Il progetto autobiografico delle familiares di Petrarca.’ Roberta Antognini. Renaissance Quarterly, 63.1 (spring 2010): 181.

“Boccaccio at 700,” American Boccaccio Association Newsletter 41.2 (2014): 3-6.

"האב הבלתי מעורער של השפה והספרות האיטלקית" (על "הקומדיה האלוהית" של דנטה), תרבות וספרות, הארץ, 18 באפריל 2014.

"יצירת המופת של מבשר ההומניזם הרנסנסי רלוונטית גם לימינו" (על ה"דקאמרון" של בוקאצ'ו), תרבות וספרות, הארץ, 22 בנובמבר 2013.

 “The Alchemist of an Era: On Bob Dylan’s Chronicles, Vol. 1”, Haaretz Books Supplement, 12 November 2004.

Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, ‘Identification, Passion, Compassion: Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio and the Ethics of Pietà.’ March 25, 2018.

The Annual Dante Lecture, Yale University, ‘Identification, Passion, Compassion: Dante, Petrarch, and the Ethics of Pietà.’ October 19, 2017.

Italian Studies, University of Pennsylvania, ‘Humanist Ethics: Petrarch to Machiavelli.’ March 29, 2012.

‘The Implications of Reading Brian Stock,’ An International Conference, Toronto, Ontario, March 14, 2019 (organized with Sarah Powrie)

‘Compassion in Dante’s Inferno: Literary and Philosophical Encounters,’ An International Conference, Jerusalem, Israel, December 26-28, 2017 (organized with Mimmo Cangiano, Yoav Rinon, and Tzachi Zamir)