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Alessandra Petrina è professore ordinario di Letteratura Inglese presso
l’Università degli Studi di Padova. La sua ricerca si volge alla storia
intellettuale tardo-medievale e della prima età moderna, nonché alle
relazioni culturale anglo-italiane e scoto-italiane. Ha pubblicato The Kingis
Quair of James I of Scotland (Unipress, 1997), Cultural Politics in
Fifteenth-century England. The Case of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (Brill,
2004), Machiavelli in the British Isles: Two Early Modern Translations of the
Prince (Ashgate, 2009), e Petrarch’s Triumphi in the British Isles (MHRA,
2020); quest’ultimo volume ha ricevuto il Premio dell’Associazione
Italiana di Anglistica. La sua monografia più recente è Shakespeare: Guida
ad Otello (Carocci, 2022), oltre a una traduzione di Othello per Rizzoli
(2024). Attualmente lavora sulla nozione di tempo nella prima età moderna e
sta completando una traduzione di The Canterbury Tales.

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Alessandra Petrina
List of publications

Monographs

2024
William Shakespeare. Otello, il Moro di Venezia, ed./trans. Alessandra
Petrina, Milano: Rizzoli, 2024. ISBN 978-88-17-18273-7

2022
Shakespeare: guida ad Otello, Roma: Carocci. ISBN 978-88-290-1344-9

2020
Petrarch’s Triumphi in the British Isles, London: Modern Humanities
Research Association. ISBN 978-1-78188-882-7 (HB); ISBN 978-1-78188-881-0
(PB)

2009
Machiavelli in the British Isles. Two Early Modern Translations of The
Prince, Farnham: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-6697-4. Second edition: London /
New York: Routledge, 2019, ISBN 978-0-367-88250-1.

2004
Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-century England: The Case of Humphrey, Duke of
Gloucester, Leiden: Brill. ISBN 90 04 13713 0

1997
The Kingis Quair of James I of Scotland, Padova: Unipress. ISBN 88-8098-072-6


Editions
2025
(with Beatrice Fuga) Moralizing the Italian Marvellous in Early Modern
England, New York: Routledge. ISBN: 978-10-3252-675-1

2023
“Fair Padua, nursery of arts”: Shakespeare and Padua, special issue of
Cahiers Élisabéthains 112. ISSN: 0184-7678; online ISSN: 2054-4715

(with Giuliana Iannaccaro), Speciale Shakespeare: “Sacro specchio della
moda”: William Shakespeare, voce del potere / “A glass of godly form”:
Shakespeare as the voice of established power, special issue of Parole Rubate
27. ISSN: 2039-0114

2021
(with Rocco Coronato and Marilena Parlati), Thinking Out of the Box in
Literary and Cultural Studies. Proceedings of the XXIX AIA Conference,
Padova: Padova University Press. ISBN: 978-88-6938-257-4

2020
(with Federica Masiero), Acquisition through Translation. Towards a
Definition of Renaissance Translation, Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN:
978-2-503-58954-1

2018
(with Clara Calvo), Shakespeare and Popular Culture, special issue of Textus
31. ISSN: 1824-3967; ISBN: 978-88-430-9209-3

(with Ian Johnson), The Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern
Scottish Writing, Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications. ISBN:
9781580442817

2013
The Medieval Translator – Traduire au Moyen Age 15. In principio fuit
interpres, Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN: 9782503549095

(with David Rundle), The Italian University in the Renaissance, special issue
of Renaissance Studies 27. ISSN: 0269-1213

(with Giuseppe Brunetti), Abeunt studia in mores. Saggi in onore di Mario
Melchionda, Padova: Padova University Press. ISBN: 9788897385868

(with Alessandro Arienzo), Machiavellian Encounters in Tudor and Stuart
England. Literary and Political Influences from the Reformation to the
Restoration, Farnham: Ashgate. ISBN: 9781409436720

2012
(with Sebastiaan Verweij, Patrick Hart and Elizabeth Elliott), Natio Scota,
special issue of Journal of the Northern Renaissance 4. ISSN: 1759-3085.

2011
(with John E. Law), Between Italy and the British Isles. Dialogue and
Confrontation from the Dawn of Vernacular Literatures to the Seventeenth
Century, special issue of Textus 24. ISSN: 1824-3967.

MedieVaria. Un liber amicorum per Giuseppe Brunetti, Padova: Unipress. ISBN:
978-88-8098-296-8.

Queen and Country. The Relation between the Monarch and the People in the
Development of the English Nation, Bern: Peter Lang. ISBN: 9783034305518.

(with Laura Tosi), Dall’ABC a Harry Potter: Storia della letteratura
inglese per l’infanzia e la gioventù, Bologna: Bononia University Press.
ISBN: 978-88-7395-630-3.

(with Laura Tosi), Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture,
Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 9780230278172.

2002
(with Mario Melchionda), Imperi moderni: l’eroe tra apoteosi e parodia,
Padova: Unipress.


Articles in journals, chapters in volumes
2025
“Afterword. Music and what it did to Shakespeare”, in Marina Toffetti, A
Couple of Words on Music. Musical Terms and Us, Kraków: Musica Jagellonica,
2025, 135-41. ISBN: 9788370992637.

“Time and Mortality in English Renaissance Translations of Petrarch’s
Italian Poems”, in Translating Petrarch in Early Modern Britain. Canzoniere
and Triumphi, c. 1530-1650, ed. Marie-Alice Belle, Riccardo Raimondo,
Francesco Venturi, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 189-207, ISBN:
978-1-5261-7303-4.

“On the Margins: Early Modern Scottish Writing”, Scottish Literary Review
17, 1-24. ISSN: 2050-6678.

“Semantic Austerity in Petrarch’s Description of Time”, in The Power of
Words in Late Medieval Devotional and Mystical Writing: Essays in Honour of
Denis Renevey, ed. Rory G. Critten, Juliette Vuille, Turnhout: Brepols,
255-74, ISBN: 978-2-503-60292-9.

“‘What, in ill thoughts again?’: Edgar and the Poetics of Endurance”,
in Rinascimento/Rinascimenti. Studi in onore di Rosanna Camerlingo, ed.
Camilla Caporicci, Ilaria Pernici, Cristiano Ragni, Perugia: Morlacchi
Editore, 173-83, ISBN: 978-88-9392-566-2.

“Translation and Invention in Sixteenth-Century Scotland”, Journal of the
Northern Renaissance 15, online publication (www.northernrenaissance.org).
ISSN: 1759-3085.

“‘The immortal part’: Othello, Giraldi Cinzio’s novella, and the
Power of Words”, in Moralizing the Italian Marvellous in Early Modern
England, ed. Beatrice Fuga, Alessandra Petrina, New York: Routledge,133-150,
ISBN: 978-10-3252-675-1

2024
“La lingua inglese e il canto”, in Voci e vocalità nella cultura
occidentale, ed. Valentina Confuorto, Cristina Miatello, Roma: Armando
Editrice, 2024, 395-400, ISBN 9781259846259

2023
“Editorial introduction: From Paradise to Padua”, Cahiers Élisabéthains
112, 3.13. ISSN: 0184-7678; online ISSN: 2054-4715

“‘We’ve had quite a Shakespearean evening, haven’t we?’:
Shakespeare and Dorothy Sayers”, Parole Rubate, 27, 87-111, ISSN: 2039-0114

“Titus (Livius) (Livy, Titus Livius)”, in The Chaucer Encyclopedia, ed.
Richard G. Newhauser, Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2023, 1841-43, ISBN:
9781119087991

2022
“Ariosto in Scotland by Way of France. John Stewart of Baldynneis’ Roland
Furious”, Journal of Early Modern Studies, 11, 17-38, ISSN: 2279-7149.

“Translations Facing Inwards: James VI/I’s Basilikon Doron”, in
Traduire. Tradurre. Translating. Vie de mots et voies des oeuvres dans
l’Europe de la Renaissance, ed. Jean-Louis Fournel, Ivano Paccagnella,
Genève: Droz, 487-504, ISBN: 978-2-600-06315-9.

“The Renaissance in England: A Meeting Point”, in Studying English
Literature in Context. Critical Readings, ed. Paul Poplawski, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 67-83, ISBN: 978-1-108-47928-8.

“Horcrux or Hallow? Magical projections of the psyche in Harry Potter”,
Prospero. Rivista di letterature e culture straniere, 27, 83-101, ISSN:
1123-2684.

“Anglistica”, in La Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia. Duecento anni di
studi umanistici all’Università di Padova, ed. Vincenzo Milanesi, Padova:
Il Poligrafo, 269-76, ISBN: 978-88-9387-227-0.

2021
“Carissime donne: Boccaccio’s fabliaux for a new audience”, Medioevo
Europeo. Rivista di filologia e altra medievalistica, 5, 303-322, ISSN:
2532-6856.

“The Construction of the European Intellectual: Petrarch, Humanism, and
Middle English Literature”, in Current Issues in Medieval England, ed.
Letizia Vezzosi, Berlin: Peter Lang, pp. 87-108, ISBN: 978-3-631-86274-2

“Translation in Love’s Labour’s Lost”, Essays in Criticism 71,
251-268, ISSN: 1471-6852, DOI: 10.1093/escrit/cgab013

“London, 1584: Translation and Cultural Politics”, Revista Ideação 43,
38-52, ISSN: 2359-6384, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.13102/ideac.v1i43

“Natio Anglica e natio Scota: istanze locali e necessità politiche”, in
Intellettuali e uomini di corte. Padova e lo spazio europeo tra Cinque e
Seicento, ed. Ester Pietrobon, Roma: Donzelli, pp. 79-89. ISBN:
978-88-5522-258-7

“Studenti e social mobility: il caso di William Fowler”, in Intellettuali
e uomini di corte. Padova e lo spazio europeo tra Cinque e Seicento, ed.
Ester Pietrobon, Roma: Donzelli, pp. 91-101. ISBN: 978-88-5522-258-7

“Circolazione di manoscritti: Astrophil and Stella tra le Isole Britanniche
e Padova”, in Intellettuali e uomini di corte. Padova e lo spazio europeo
tra Cinque e Seicento, ed. Ester Pietrobon, Roma: Donzelli, pp. 249-257.
ISBN: 978-88-5522-258-7

2020
“Introduction. The Definition of Cultural Identity through Translation”,
in Acquisition through Translation. Towards a Definition of Renaissance
Translation, ed. Alessandra Petrina, Federica Masiero, Turnhout: Brepols,
17-32. ISBN: 978-2-503-58954-1

“‘This opera will win for me a martyr’s crown’: Conflict in
Beethoven’s Fidelio”, The Opera Journal 53, 1-28, ISSN: 0030-3585

“The Court of James VI of Scotland (1566-1625) and its Reception of Italian
Musical Modes”, in Contrafacta. Modes of Music Re-textualization in the
Late Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century, ed. Marina Toffetti, Gabriele
Taschetti, Kraków: Musica Iagellonica, 43-60, ISBN: 978-83-7099-239-2

“Where Would you Fit the Coconuts? The Reinstatement of Sexual Stereotypes
in a Mock-Biopic”, Textus 33, 115-128, ISSN: 1824-3967, ISBN:
978-88-290-0040-1

2019
“Beethoven’s Ninth and Fidelio: An Ineffable Joy”, in Il teatro delle
emozioni: la gioia, ed. Mattia De Poli, Padova: Padova University Press,
123-37, ISBN: 978-88-6938-184-3

“All Petrarch’s Fault: The Idea of a Renaissance”, Memoria di
Shakespeare 6, 145-64, DOI: https://doi.org/10.13133/2283-8759/16405.

“Translation in the classroom: the evidence of Additional 60577”, Status
Quaestionis 17, 1-23, DOI 10.13133/2239-1983/16383.

“Marginal Reactions: Responses to Translations of Machiavelli in Early
Modern English Marginalia”, Canadian Review of Comparative Literature /
Revue Canadienne de Littérature Comparée 46, 252-67, DOI
0319-051x/19/46.2/252

“An Allusion to Machiavelli in Othello”, Notes and Queries 66, 444-47,
ISSN 0029-3970, DOI 10.1093/notesj/gjz089

“Machiavelli’s Principe and the new Ethics of Power”, in The Routledge
Research Companion to Anglo-Italian Renaissance Literature and Culture, ed.
Michele Marrapodi, Abingdon: Routledge, 329-341; ISBN: 978-1-472-41073-3

2018
“Introduction: A Dance Routine Set in a Library”, Shakespeare and Popular
Culture, special issue of Textus 31, 7-14. ISSN: 1824-3967; ISBN:
978-88-430-9209-3

“Translating Machiavelli’s Prince in Early Modern England: New Manuscript
Evidence”, Manuscript Studies 3, 302-333. ISSN: 2381-5329.

“Il vocabolario della politica: traduzione tra Italia e Inghilterra”, in
Rinascimento fra il Veneto e l’Europa, ed. Elisa Gregori, Padova: Cleup,
205-226. ISBN: 9788867879687.

“Approaching Petrarch’s Trionfi: Paratexts in the Early Modern Scottish
Translations”, in Thresholds of Translation: Paratexts, Print, and Cultural
Exchange in Early Modern Britain (1473-1660), ed. Marie-Alice Belle, Brenda
M. Hosington, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 161-82. ISBN : 9783319727714.

“The Aeneid of the North: William Caxton’s Eneydos and Gavin Douglas’s
Eneados”, The Mediaeval Journal 7, 145-162. ISBN: 9782503572437.

“British Library, MS Additional 60577: The Role of Translation in a
Scientific and Didactic Collection”, in Booldly bot meekly. Essays on the
Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages in Honour of Roger
Ellis, ed. Catherine Batt, René Tixier, Turnhout: Brepols, 485-498. ISBN:
9782503553801.

“A View from Afar: Petruccio Ubaldini’s Descrittione del Regno di
Scotia”, in The Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern
Scottish Writing, ed. Alessandra Petrina, Ian Johnson, Kalamazoo: Medieval
Institute Publications, pp. 153-171. ISBN: 9781580442817.

(with Ian Johnson), “Introduction: Scottish Latinitas”, in The Impact of
Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing, ed. Alessandra
Petrina, Ian Johnson, Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, pp.
ix-xviii. ISBN: 9781580442817.

“Ethics from the classroom: Elizabeth I’s translation of Cicero’s Pro
Marcello”, in Elizabeth I in Writing, ed. Donatella Montini, Iolanda
Plescia, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 37-58. ISBN: 978-3-319-71951-1.

2017
“The literary scholar”, in Sharing Perspectives on English-Medium
Instruction, ed. Katherine Ackerley, Marta Guarda, Francesca Helm, Bern:
Peter Lang, pp. 219-223. ISBN: 978-3-0343-2537-0.

“Preface”, in Prophecy and Conspiracy in Early Modern England, ed.
Giuliana Iannaccaro, Massimiliano Morini, Firenze: The British Institute of
Florence, pp. 11-15. ISBN: 978-88-907244-3-5.

“‘A Treatise of several forms of Government’: A Sixteenth-Century
English Translation of The Prince”, in Machiavelli’s Prince. Traditions,
Text and Translations, ed. Nicola Gardini e Martin McLaughlin, Roma: Viella,
pp. 177-90. ISBN: 978-88-6728-843-4.

“Twelfth Night e la Novella II.36 di Matteo Bandello”, in Twelfth Night
dal testo alla scena, ed. Mariangela Tempera e Keir Elam, Bologna: Casa
Editrice Emil di Odoya, pp. 29-49. ISBN: 978-88-6680-226-6

2016
“Duke Humphrey of Gloucester in the eyes of posterity: Lancastrian rule and
Tudor propaganda”, Prospero 21, pp. 15-34. DOI: 10.13137/2283-6438/13401.

“Un giardino pieno di erbacce: allegorie botaniche nel teatro di William
Shakespeare”, in Allegoria e teatro tra Cinque e Settecento: da principio
compositivo a strumento esegetico, ed. Elisabetta Selmi ed Enrico Zucchi,
Bologna: Casa Editrice Emil di Odoya, pp. 95-113. ISBN: 978-88-6680-169-6.

“Iacopo Sannazaro and the Creation of a Poetic Canon in Early Modern
England”, Parole Rubate 14, pp. 95-118. ISSN: 2039-0114

“Petrarca in Inghilterra. Le traduzioni dei Trionfi nella prima età
moderna”, in “Fedeli, diligenti, chiari e dotti”. Traduttori e
traduzione nel Rinascimento, ed. Elisa Gregori, Padova: Cleup, pp. 127-47.
ISBN: 9788867875955

“Speaking the Nation: Identity through Language”, in Forms of Nationhood.
Selected Papers from the “Shakespeare and his Contemporaries” Graduate
Conference. Florence, 10 April 2014, ed. Luca Baratta, Alice Equestri,
Firenze: The British Institute of Florence, pp. 35-60. ISBN: 9788890724435

“Le dottrine politiche: utopie e Realpolitik”, in La letteratura inglese
dall’Umanesimo al Rinascimento. 1485-1625, ed. Michele Stanco, Roma:
Carocci, pp. 53-66. ISBN: 9788843080601

“La prosa: da Malory alle traduzioni della Bibbia”, in La letteratura
inglese dall’Umanesimo al Rinascimento. 1485-1625, ed. Michele Stanco,
Roma: Carocci, pp. 89-100. ISBN: 9788843080601

“Storia: da Elisabetta I a Giacomo I”, in La letteratura inglese
dall’Umanesimo al Rinascimento. 1485-1625, ed. Michele Stanco, Roma:
Carocci, pp. 117-29. ISBN: 9788843080601

2015
(with Sìm Innes) “The Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries”, in The
International Companion to Scottish Poetry, ed. Carla Sassi, Glasgow:
Scottish Literature International, pp. 44-53, 220-25. ISBN: 9781908980151

“The Merry Wives of Windsor / Le allegre comari di Windsor”, in William
Shakespeare. Tutte le opere. Volume II: Le commedie, ed. Franco Marenco,
Milano: Bompiani, pp. 1045-1277. ISBN: 9788845280597

“Nota Introduttiva. The Merry Wives of Windsor / Le allegre comari di
Windsor”, in William Shakespeare. Tutte le opera. Volume II: Le commedie,
ed. Franco Marenco, Milano: Bompiani, pp. 1045-64. ISBN: 9788845280597

(with Katherine Ackerley), “Teaching English Literature to Italians in
English: lecturer and student reflections”, in L’innovazione
nell’apprendimento linguistico all’Università di Padova, ed. Fiona
Dalziel and Geneviève Henrot Sostero, Padova: Padua University Press, pp.
257-72. ISBN: 9788869380471

“Ai margini del testo: Alberico Gentili e la circolazione dell’opera di
Machiavelli in Inghilterra”, in Alberico Gentili. “Responsibility to
Protect”: nuovi orientamenti su intervento umanitario e ordine
internazionale, ed. Vincenzo Lavenia, Macerata: Edizioni Università di
Macerata, pp. 195-214. ISBN: 9788860564252

“Translation and Language Learning: The English Version of Petrarch’s
Triumph of Eternity Attributed to Elizabeth I”, in Early Modern Exchanges:
Dialogues between Nations and Cultures, 1550-1750, ed. Helen Hackett,
Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 55-71. ISBN: 9781472425294

“Machiavelli in Inghilterra: John Wolfe e la stampa elisabettiana”, in
Bibliografia delle edizioni di Niccolò Machiavelli: 1506-1914. I: 1506-1604.
Istorico, comico e tragico, ed. Piero Innocenti and Mariaelisa Rossi, Roma:
Vecchiarelli, pp. 17-31. ISBN: 9788882473716

2014
“A Stranger at the Margins: Giovanni Boccaccio in John Lydgate’s Work”,
in Boccaccio and the European Literary Tradition, ed. Piero Boitani and
Emilia di Rocco, Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, pp. 73-88. ISBN:
9788863727500

“‘Perfit Readiness’: Elizabeth Learning and Using Italian”, in
Elizabeth I’s Foreign Correspondence. Letters, Rhetoric, and Politics, ed.
Carlo M. Bajetta, Guillaume Coatalen and Jonathan Gibson, New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, pp. 93-113. ISBN: 9781137448408

“Damnatio Memoriae and Surreptitious Printing: Niccolò Machiavelli in the
British Isles”, in Enforcing and Eluding Censorship: British and
Anglo-Italian Perspectives, ed. Giuliana Iannaccaro and Giovanni Iamartino,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholar Publishing, pp. 17-30. ISBN:
9781443860581

“Anglo-European Literary Relations in the Sixteenth Century”, in A
Companion to British Literature: Volume II: Early Modern Literature
1450-1660, ed. Robert DeMaria, Jr., Heesok Chang, and Samantha Zacher,
Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 40-53. ISBN: 9780470656044.

(with Giuliana Iannaccaro), “To and From the Queen: Modalities of
Epistolography in the Correspondence of Elizabeth I”, Journal of Early
Modern Studies 3, pp. 69-89. ISSN: 2279-7149.

2013
(with David Rundle), “Introduction”, in The Italian University in the
Renaissance, special issue of Renaissance Studies 27: 480-86. ISSN: 0269-1213

“Challenging the Author: Gavin Douglas’s Eneados”, in Abeunt studia in
mores. Saggi in onore di Mario Melchionda, ed. Giuseppe Brunetti e Alessandra
Petrina, Padova: Padova University Press, pp. 23-33. ISBN: 9788897385868.

“The Humanist Petrarch in Medieval and Early Modern England”, Journal of
Anglo-Italian Studies, 12, pp. 45-62. ISSN: 1560-2168.

“Diventare adulti nell’Inghilterra della prima età moderna”, in
Letteratura e conflitti generazionali. Dall’antichità classica ad oggi,
ed. Davide Susanetti e Nuala Distilo, Roma: Carocci, pp. 188-201. ISBN:
978-88-430-6978-1.

“Introduction”, in The Medieval Translator – Traduire au Moyen Age 15.
In principio fuit interpres, ed. Alessandra Petrina, Turnhout: Brepols, pp.
1-9. ISBN: 9782503549095

“Italian Influences at the Court of James VI: The Case of William
Fowler”, in James VI and I, Literature and Scotland. Tides of Change,
1567-1625, ed. David J. Parkinson, Leuven: Peeters, pp. 27-44. ISBN:
9789042926912

“Machiavelli in Inghilterra e Scozia: il primo secolo del Principe in
lingua inglese”, in Il Principe di Niccolò Machiavelli e il suo tempo.
1513-2013, ed. Alessandro Campi, Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana
Treccani, pp. 186-94. ISBN: 9788812002030

“Reginald Pole and the Reception of the Principe in Henrician England”,
in Machiavellian Encounters in Tudor and Stuart England. Literary and
Political Influences from the Reformation to the Restoration, ed. Alessandro
Arienzo and Alessandra Petrina, Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 13-27. ISBN:
9781409436720

(with Alessandro Arienzo), “Introducing Machiavelli in Tudor and Stuart
England”, in Machiavellian Encounters in Tudor and Stuart England. Literary
and Political Influences from the Reformation to the Restoration, ed.
Alessandro Arienzo and Alessandra Petrina, Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 1-11. ISBN:
9781409436720

2012
“Editorial: Natio Scota”. Journal of the Northern Renaissance 4, online
publication (https://jnr2.hcommons.org/). ISSN: 1759-3085.

“The Medieval Period”, in The Cambridge Companion to Scottish Literature,
ed. Gerald Carruthers e Liam McIlvanney, Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press pp. 27-40. ISBN: 9780521189361

“One bowl, two eaters: medieval eating habits in the ‘babees’
books’”, in A Garland of True Plain Words: saggi in onore di Paola
Bottalla, ed. Annalisa Oboe and Anna Scacchi, Padova: Unipress, pp. 231-47.
ISBN: 9788880983064.

2011
“Contaminare lo spazio dell’innocenza: Machiavelli e gli
elisabettiani”, in Prigioni e paradisi. Luoghi scenici e spazi dell'anima
nel teatro moderno, ed. Elena Randi, Cristina Grazioli, Paola Degli Esposti,
Simona Brunetti, Elena Adriani, Padova: Esedra, pp. 31-43. ISBN:
9788860580702

“On Dialogue and Confrontation”, Textus 24, pp. 415-426. ISSN:
1824-3967.

“Young man, reading: Caxton’s Book of Curtesye”, in MedieVaria. Un
liber amicorum per Giuseppe Brunetti, ed. Alessandra Petrina, Padova:
Unipress, pp. 115-134. ISBN: 978-88-8098-296-8.

“Prima della letteratura per l’infanzia: il tardo Medioevo e la prima
età moderna”, in Dall'ABC a Harry Potter: Storia della letteratura inglese
per l'infanzia e la gioventù, ed. Laura Tosi and Alessandra Petrina,
Bologna: Bononia University Press, pp. 33-54, ISBN: 978-88-7395-630-3.

“Isole misteriose e giardini segreti: il romanzo d’avventura”, in
Dall'ABC a Harry Potter: Storia della letteratura inglese per l'infanzia e la
gioventù, ed. Laura Tosi and Alessandra Petrina, Bologna: Bononia University
Press, pp. 237-261, ISBN: 978-88-7395-630-3.

“Collegi per l’impero, governanti magiche: la school story”, in
Dall’ABC a Harry Potter: Storia della letteratura inglese per l’infanzia
e la gioventù, ed. Laura Tosi and Alessandra Petrina, Bologna: Bononia
University Press, pp. 263-289, ISBN: 978-88-7395-630-3.

“Nuovi mondi, altri universi: la fantasy dal secondo dopoguerra ad
oggi”, in Dall'ABC a Harry Potter: Storia della letteratura inglese per
l'infanzia e la gioventù, ed. Laura Tosi and Alessandra Petrina, Bologna:
Bononia University Press, pp. 317-343, ISBN: 978-88-7395-630-3.

“Introduction”, in Queen and Country. The Relation between the Monarch
and the People in the Development of the English Nation, ed. Alessandra
Petrina, Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 9-20.

“Introduction: a Monarch in Writing”, in Representation of Elizabeth I in
Early Modern Culture, ed. Alessandra Petrina and Laura Tosi, Basingstoke:
Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-10.

2010
“‘With his penne and langage laureate’: The Symbolic Significance of
the Laurel Crown”, Studi Petrarcheschi 23, pp. 161-185.

“Cercare nell’Italia la propria nazione: la traduzione letteraria in
Scozia tra tardo medioevo e prima età moderna”, in Quaderni del Premio
Letterario Giuseppe Acerbi. Letteratura Scozzese, ed. Marco Fazzini and Carla
Sassi, Verona: Fiorini, pp. 53-56, ISBN 978-88-96419-16-8.

“Boccaccio in Kent: le peregrinazioni di Guiscardo e Ghismonda”, in
Comparatistica e intertestualità. Studi di letterature comparate in onore di
Franco Marenco, ed. Giuseppe Sertoli, Carla Vaglio Marengo, Chiara Lombardi,
Alessandria: Dell'Orso, pp. 217-226, ISBN 978-88-6274-186-6.

“Walter Scott of Buccleuch, Italian Poet?”, Renaissance Studies 24, pp.
671-693, ISSN: 0269-1213, doi: 10.1111/j.1477-4658.2010.00646.x

“A Florentine Prince in Queen Elizabeth’s Court”, in The First
Translations of Machiavelli’s Prince. From the Sixteenth to the First Half
of the Nineteenth Century, ed. Roberto De Pol, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi,
pp.83-115, ISBN 978-90-420-2962-0

2009
“Machiavellismo e conflitti religiosi in Inghilterra e Scozia nel XVI
secolo”, in Raccontare la storia. Realtà e finzione nella letteratura
europea dal Rinascimento all'età contemporanea, ed. Stefano Bronzini, Roma:
Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, pp. 23-32. ISBN/ISSN: 978-88-6372-112-6

“Excuse My French: Bilingualism and Translation in Lancastrian England”,
in The Medieval Translator. Traduire au Moyen Age. Volume 12: Lost in
Translation?, ed. Denis Renevey, Christiania Whitehead, Turnhout: Brepols,
pp. 121-131. ISBN: 978-2-503-53139-7.

“Machiavelli Beyond the Channel: The First English Translations of The
Prince”, in Anglo-American Faces of Machiavelli. Machiavelli e
machiavellismi nella cultura anglo-americana (secoli XVI-XX), ed. Alessandro
Arienzo, Gianfranco Borrelli, Monza: Polimetrica, pp. 51-74.

“Mother Power in J. K. Rowling’s Saga”, in What are Little Boys and
Girls Made Of?, ed. Paola Bottalla, Monica Santini, Padova: Unipress, pp.
87-103.

“Translation and Ideology in the Scotland of James VI: The Case of
William
Fowler”, Storia e Politica 1, pp. 228-50.

2008
“Seeing, believing and groping in the dark: a reading of the Reeve’s
Tale”, in Thou sittest at another boke... English Studies in Honour of
Domenico Pezzini, ed. Giovanni Iamartino, Maria Luisa Maggioni and Roberta
Facchinetti, Milano: Polimetrica, pp. 223-35.

“Briseida, Criseida, Cressida: la costruzione di un mito”, in Il
personaggio: Figure della dissolvenza e della permanenza, ed. Chiara
Lombardi, Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, pp. 173-78.

“Border Ballads”, in The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry before
1600, ed. Michelle M. Sauer, New York: Infobase Publishing, p. 92.

“Chronicle”, in The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry before
1600, ed. Michelle M. Sauer, New York: Infobase Publishing, p. 116.

“Pastourelle”, in The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry before
1600, ed. Michelle M. Sauer, New York: Infobase Publishing, p. 311.

“Patronage” (with Adam Bures), in The Facts on File Companion to British
Poetry before 1600, ed. Michelle M. Sauer, New York: Infobase Publishing, pp.
311-12.

“Reeve’s Tale, The”, in The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry
before 1600, ed. Michelle M. Sauer, New York: Infobase Publishing, pp.
340-42.

“Robene and Makyne”, in The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry
before 1600, ed. Michelle M. Sauer, New York: Infobase Publishing, p. 344.

“Siege of Calais, The”, in The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry
before 1600, ed. Michelle M. Sauer, New York: Infobase Publishing, p. 408.

“Boccaccio oltremanica. Il primo approdo del Decameron nelle Isole
Britanniche”, in Premio “Città di Monselice” per la traduzione
letteraria e scientifica, ed. Gianfelice Peron, Padova: Il Poligrafo, pp.
249-70.

“Robert Henryson’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” and Its Sources”,
Fifteenth-century Studies 33, pp. 198-217.

2007
“Magia e tecnologia: l'universo bifronte di Harry Potter”, in Tempi
moderni nella children's literature: storie, personaggi, strumenti critici,
ed. Francesca Orestano, Milano: Cuem, pp. 161-82.

“The Travels of Ideology: Niccolò Machiavelli at the Court of James VI”,
Modern Language Review 102, pp. 947-59.

“Le doti di Cressida”, in Il personaggio nelle arti della narrazione, ed.
Franco Marenco, Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, pp. 25-39.

“Translation and Lancastrian Politics: Duke Humphrey and the Prologue to
Book IV of John Lydgate’s Fall of Princes”, in The Medieval Translator.
Traduire au Moyen Age 10, ed. Jacqueline Jenkins and Olivier Bertrand,
Tournhout: Brepols, pp. 333-48.

“Creative ymagynacioun and Canon Constraints in the Fifteenth Century.
James I and Charles d’Orléans” in Inspiration and Technique. Ancient to
Modern Views on Beauty and Art, ed. Michele Stanco and John Roe, Bern: Peter
Lang, pp. 107-26.

2006
“Forbidden Forest, Enchanted Castle: Arthurian Spaces in the Harry Potter
Novels”, Mythlore 24, pp. 95-110.

“My maisteris dere’: the acknowledgement of authority in The Kingis
Quair”, Scottish Studies Review 7, 9-23.

“Shakespeare and the Middle Ages. An Epitaph for the House of Lancaster”,
in Paper Bullets of the Brain. Experiments with Shakespeare, eds Shaul Bassi
and Roberta Cimarosti, Venezia: Cafoscarina, pp. 125-43.

“Ariosto in Scotland: John Stewart of Baldynneis’s Roland Furious under
the patronage of King James”, Textus 19, 339-51.

2005
“Donne Gentili and Courtly Ladies: A Comparison between Dante's Beatrice
and the Lady of the Kingis Quair,” in Older Scots Literature, ed. Sally
Mapstone, Edinburgh: John Donald, pp. 30-38.

“John Lydgate’s Fall of Princes and the Politics of Translation”, in
Cross-Cultural Encounters: Literary Perspectives, ed. Silvia Albertazzi and
Claudia Pelliconi, Roma: Officina Edizioni, pp. 213-23.

“One Thousand Magical Herbs and Beasts: Medieval Elements in the Harry
Potter Saga”, in Children’s Fantasy Fiction: Debates for the Twenty First
Century, ed. Nickianne Moody and Clare Horrocks, Liverpool: Association for
Research in Popular Fiction, pp. 161-74.

“Humphrey Duke of Gloucester e il primo umanesimo in Inghilterra”, in Le
Scritture e le riscritture. Discorso religioso e discorso letterario in
Europa nella prima età moderna, eds Rosanna Camerlingo and Daniele Borgogni,
Napoli: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, pp. 17-35.

“Medieval Harps and Their Kingly Players”, Textus 18, pp. 249-66.

2004
“The use of the word monastica in the division of moral philosophy in
thirteenth-century Paris and fifteenth-century England”, Studia
Neophilologica 76, pp. 165-75.

2003
“The Middle English Translation of Palladius’s De Agricultura”, in The
Medieval Translator. Traduire au Moyen Age 8, ed. Rosalynn Voaden, Réné
Tixier, Teresa Sanchez Roura and Jennifer R. Rytting, Tournhout: Brepols, pp.
317-28.

2002
“‘Aristeus pastor adamans’: The Human Setting in Henryson's Orpheus and
Eurydice and its Kinship with Poliziano’s Fabula di Orpheo,” Forum for
Modern Language Studies 38, pp.382-95.

“‘A mannes courage’: perverted portrait of a heroine in John
Skelton’s The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng,” in Imperi moderni: l'eroe tra
apoteosi e parodia, eds Alessandra Petrina and Mario Melchionda, Padova:
Unipress, pp. 13-27.

2001
“Children’s Literature and Children’s Education in Late Medieval
England,” in Hearts of Lightness, ed. Laura Tosi, Venezia: Cafoscarina, pp.
27-45.

1999
“Polyglottia and the Vindication of English Poetry: Abraham Fraunce’s The
Arcadian Rhetorike,” Neophilologus 83, pp. 317-29.

“Deviations from Genre in Robert Henryson’s Robene and Makyne,” Studies
in Scottish Literature 31, pp. 107-20.

1997
“Paradossi semantici e artifici retorici: Comus 93-330, 659-813,” in Tra
Shakespeare e Milton, ed. Mario Melchionda, Padova: Unipress, pp. 61-83.

1994
“Some Dream-Related Images in The Kingis Quair,” Studi Medievali 35, pp.
307-16.

“Incubi and Nightmares in Middle-English Literature,” Atti
dell’Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti 152, pp. 391-422.


Reviews
2025
“Demetrio S. Yocum, ed. and trans., Petrarch’s Penitential Psalms and
Prayers”, The Medieval Review, online publication:
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/42608

“Ruth Ahnert and Sebastian E. Ahnert, Tudor Networks of Power”,
Renaissance Quarterly 78.2, pp. 595-596.

2023
“Katherine H. Terrell, Scripting the Nation: Court Poetry and the Authority
of History in Late Medieval Scotland”, The English Historical Review 138,
online publication:
https://academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ehr/cead175/7321596?redirectedFrom=fulltext

“Gordon Braden, Petrarchan Love and the English Renaissance”, Translation
and Literature 32, pp. 245-49.

“Doyeeta Majumder, Tyranny and Usurpation. The New Prince and Lawmaking
Violence in Early Modern Drama”, Journal of the Northern Renaissance,
online publication:
https://jnr2.hcommons.org/2023/7761/

2020
“Lindsay Ann Reid, Shakespeare’s Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval.
Studies in Renaissance Literature”, The Medieval Review, online
publication:
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/31098

2019
“Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant. Shakespeare on Politics”, Memoria di
Shakespeare 6, pp. 199-204.

“Aileen A. Feng, Writing Beloveds: Humanist Petrarchism and the Politics of
Gender”, The Medieval Review, online publication:
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/27003

2017
“Thomas A. Prendergast, Poetical Dust: Poets’ Corner and the Making of
Britain”, The Medieval Review, online publication:
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/23689/29407

2016
“Sheldon Brammall, The English Aeneid. Translations of Virgil,
1555-1646”, International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 23, pp.
162-66; online publication:
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12138-016-0389-3/fulltext.html;
DOI: 10.1007/s12138-016-0389-3

2015
“Nick Havely, ed., Geoffrey Chaucer: The House of Fame”, The Medieval
Review, online publication:
http://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/20112/26208

“Susanna Fein and Michael Johnston, eds, Robert Thornton and his Books.
Essays on the Lincoln and London Thornton Manuscripts”, Renaissance
Quarterly, 68, pp. 365-66.

“Michele Stanco, Rinascimento inglese. Lessico della cultura e tecnologie
della comunicazione”, L’Indice dei libri del mese, 32, online
publication:
http://www.lindiceonline.com/index.php/l-indice/aprile-2015/85-l-indice/aprile-2015/2847-saggistica-letteraria

2014
“Petrarch’s English Laurels, 1475-1700. A Compendium of Printed
References and Allusions. Edited by Jackson Campbell Boswell and Gordon
McMurry Braden”, Translation and Literature 23, pp. 378-82.

“Literature and Religion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland. Essays
in Honour of Alasdair A. MacDonald, ed. by Luuk Houwen”, English Studies,
95, pp. 990–994; online publication:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0013838X.2014.946812

2012
“Chaucer and Italian Textuality, by K. P. Clarke”, The Medieval Review,
online publication https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/14395

2010
“Venus’ Owne Clerk. Chaucer's Debt to the Confessio Amantis by B.W.
Lindeboom”, The European English Messenger, 19, pp. 74-77.

“Through a Classical Eye: Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in
Medieval English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of Winthrop
Wetherbee, ed. by Galloway, Andrew and R. F. Yeager”, The Medieval Review,
online publication
https://scholarworks.iu.edu/dspace/handle/2022/6772

“Lydgate Matters. Poetry and Material Culture in the Fifteenth Century,
ed. by Lisa H. Cooper and Andrea Denny-Brown”, Journal of the Northern
Renaissance, online publication
http://www.northernrenaissance.org/reviews/

2009
“A Companion to Medieval Scottish Poetry, ed. by Priscilla Bawcutt and
Janet Hadley Williams”, Scottish Literary Review 1, pp. 94-95.

“Jane Rickard, Authorship and Authority: The Writings of James VI and
I”, Storia e Politica 1, pp. 175-77.

“John MacQueen, Complete and Full with Numbers: The Narrative Poetry of
Robert Henryson”, Fifteenth-Century Studies 34, pp. 202-06.

2008
“Daniel Wakelin, Humanism, Reading, and English Literature 1430-1530”,
The Review of English Studies, doi: 10.1093/res/hgn014.

2006
“Greg Walker, Writing Under Tyranny. English Literature and the Henrician
Reformation”, Renaissance Quarterly 59, pp. 941-42.

2003
“Susanne Saygin, Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447) and the Italian
Humanists,” Renaissance Studies 17, pp. 309-13.

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