BOOKS AND EDITED VOLUMES
Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy. University of Toronto Press, 2017.
- Winner of the MLA Scaglione Award (2016), the Newberry Library Weiss-Brown Award (2017), The Bridge Award (2018), and the Kendrick Book Prize (2018).
- translation into Italian as Parole su misura: Calcolo e scrittura nel Rinascimento. Tr. Davide Grossi. Rome: Salerno Editrice. Forthcoming.
Italian Science Fiction. Ed. with Umberto Rossi and Salvatore Proietti. Science Fiction Studies 126.42.2 (2015). 206pp. (table of contents here; Jstor)
Italian Sound. Ed. with Deanna Shemek. California Italian Studies 4.1 (2014). 403pp. (full issue here)
Open-Theme issue. Ed. with Deanna Shemek. California Italian Studies 4.2 (2014). 329pp. (full issue here)
Longfellow and Dante. Ed. with Giuseppe Mazzotta. Dante Studies 128 (2010). 371pp. (Jstor)
Mathematics and the Imagination. Ed. with Henry S. Turner. Configurations 17 (2009). 195pp. (Project Muse)
Giordano Bruno and the Geometry of Language. London: Ashgate/Routledge, 2005. (Introduction available here)
Images of Quattrocento Florence: Selected Writings in Literature, History, and Art. Ed. with Stefano Baldassarri. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. (Introduction available here)
ARTICLES & ESSAYS
“The Song of the Return: Paradiso 33.” Dante Studies. Forthcoming.
“Interview with Francesco Verso on Solarpunk, or rather, Solartivismo.” Italian Science Fiction and the Environmental Humanities, ed. M. Malvasio, D. Andrew, and E. Guaraldo. Liverpool University Press. Forthcoming.
“Paradiso 28: Entruthing the Image.” Reading Dante through Images. Ed. Matthew Collins. Belgium: Brepols, 2022: 235-305.
"Dante and American Science Fiction." Dante Alive. Ed. Simone Marchesi and Francesco Ciabattoni. London: Routledge. Forthcoming.
"Lupo siderale: Il connettivismo di Giovanni De Matteo e la fantascienza italiana" with Giovanni De Matteo. Narrativa 43 (2021): 271-287.
"The Lantern of the World Rises to Mortals by Varied Paths: Paul Laffoley (1935-2015) and Dante.” Forum Italicum 55.2 2021: 581-626. First 5pp of pre-print version.
"The Textual Nonhumans of Renaissance Humanism.” California Italian Studies 10.1 (2020): 1-15.
“ 'Adrenaline Pulse in the Cables of Reality': A Brief Introduction to Italy's Connettivisti Collective.” Simultanea: The Journal of Italian Media and Pop Culture 1.2 (2020): 1-19.
“Quadrivial Comedy in Alberti’s Musca.” Albertiana 23 (n.s. V) (2020) 2: 191-205. (summary here)
“Hell, Yes! Dante in Contemporary American Satire.” Dante Satiro: The Concept of Satire in the Middle Ages and in Dante’s Works. Ed. Fabian Alfie and Nicolino Applauso. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2020: 171-186.
“Laffoley and Dante's Other Worlds.” The Essential Paul Laffoley. Ed. Doug Walla. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2016: 20-29, 295-296.
"Introduction" to Italian Science Fiction, with Umberto Rossi. Science Fiction Studies 126.42.2 (2015): 209-216.
“Niccolò Tartaglia’s Poetic Solution to the Cubic Equation.” Journal of Mathematics and the Arts 8 (2014): 68-77.
"(Coda) Sound Bytes: Experimental Electronic Music and Sound Art in Italy." Italian Sound. A special issue of California Italian Studies 4.1 (2014). (full article here)
"Introduction" to Italian Sound, with Deanna Shemek. California Italian Studies 4.1 (2014). (full article here)
"The tre giri of Paradiso XXXIII," with Aba Mbirika. Dante Studies 131 (2013): 237-272. (full article here)
• See also, Columbia University's Digital Dante site.
“The Game of Love: Caccia di Diana.” Boccaccio: A Critical Guide to the Complete Works. Ed. Victoria Kirkham, Michael Sherberg, and Janet Smarr. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013: 109-117.
(full article here)
“Flying Saucers Would Never Land in Lucca: The Fiction of Italian Science Fiction.” California Italian Studies 2.1 (2011): 1-47. (full article here)
• translated into Romanian by Cristian Tamas, Rivista Nautilus (2012)
• translated into Italian by Lea Ciccarese, Part I: IF: Insolito & Fantastico 11 (2012): 100-107; Part II: IF: Insolito & Fantastico 12 (2013): 92-98; Part III: IF: Insolito & Fantastico 13 (2013): 94-110.
"The Middle Ages and Early Renaissance." Routledge Companion to Literature and Science. Ed. Bruce Clarke and Manuela Rossini. London: Routledge Press. 2010: 423-437. (full article here)
Introduction to “Mathematics and the Imagination,” with Henry S. Turner. Configurations 17.1-2 (2009): 1-18. (full article here)
“When in (Renaissance) Rome...” Cabinet. A Quarterly Magazine of Artand Culture 35 (2009): 12-15.
“Virtual Reality: Purgatorio XV.” Lectura Dantis: Purgatorio. Eds. Allen Mandelbaum, Anthony Oldcorn, and Charles Ross. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008: 151-166. (full article here)
“The Polyvalent Discourse of Electronic Music.” PMLA 122.5 (2007): 1613-1625. (full article here)
• Featured on Fluid Radio, January 28, 2014
“Flexilinear Language in Giambattista Della Porta’s Elementorum curvilinearoum libri tres.” Annali d’Italianistica 23 (2005): 89-104. (full article here)
“The Giordano Asteroid and Giordano Bruno Lunar Crater: A Tale of Two Namings.” Bruniana & Campanelliana 10.1 (2004): 183-191. (full article here)
“Hyperdimensionality in Salvador Dalí’s Illustrations of Dante’s Paradiso,” with Elliott King. Illuminating Dante (an online database of articles supported by the Dante Society of America and a grant from the Mellon Foundation), April, 2003.
“Ornamental Flourishes in Giordano Bruno’s Geometry.” Sixteenth Century Journal 34 (2003): 730-747. (full article here)
“Un convegno su Bruno a Chicago.” Bruniana & Campanelliana 5 (1999) 1: 213-15.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
anthology: Fantascienza: An Anthology of Italian Science Fiction from the 1860s-1960s, ed. with S. Proietti.
“The Platonic Solids,” essay for The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Renaissance.
NON ACADEMIC WRIING
“A Present Absence: On Collective Forgetting and the Drive to Remember.” Foreword to Kat Mustatea, Voidopolis. An augmented reality book presented at Ars Electronica, 2021: xvii-xxi, forthcoming in 2023 with MIT Press.
"Leonardo da Vinci Saw in Animals 'the image of the world'." The Conversation. April 12, 2019. (Also published in Towle Road, World Economic Forum, SF Gate, The Raw Story, Feedly, News Republic, Flipboard, and elsewhere)
BOOK REVIEWS
Martin McLaughlin. Leon Battista Alberti: la vita, l’umanesimo, le opere letterarie (Florence: Olschki, 2018) for Modern Language Review 113.2 (2018): 414-416.
Paolo d’Alessandro and Pier Daniele Napolitani, ed. Archimede Latino. Iacopo da San Cassiano e il Corpus archimedeo alla metà del quattrocento, con edizione della Circuli Dimensio e della Quadratura Parabolae. Tr. P. d’Alessandro and P. D. Napolitani (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2012) for Renaissance Quarterly 67.3 (2014).
Simonetta Bassi, ed., Bruno nel XXI secolo. Interpretazioni e ricerche. Atti delle giornate di Studio (Pisa, 15-16 ottobre 2009), with a bibliography of Bruno studies from 2001-2010 by Maria Elena Severini (Florence: Olschki, 2012) for Medium Aevum 82.2 (2013): 376.
Anna Laura Puliafito Bleuel, Comica pazzia: Vicissitudine e destini umani nel Candelaio di Giordano Bruno (Florence: Olschki, 2007) for Renaissance Quarterly 62 (Spring 2009): 207-209.
Eugenio Canone and Ingrid Rowland, ed. The Alchemy of Extremes: The Laboratory of The Eroici Furori of Giordano Bruno (Pisa-Rome: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2007) for The Medieval Review. (2008)
Leo Catana, The Concept of Contraction in Giordano Bruno’s Philosophy (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing 2005) for Renaissance Quarterly 59.3 (2006): 833-834.
Pierpaolo Antonello and Simon Gilson, ed., Science and Literature in Italian Culture: A Festschrift for Pat Boyde (Oxford: Legenda, 2005) for Italian Studies 60.2 (2005): 255-257.
Louis Van Delft, Frammento e anatomia: Rivoluzione scientifica e creazione letteraria (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2004) for Renaissance Quarterly 58.3 (2005): 990-992.
Simon Gilson, Medieval Optics and Theories of Light in the Works of Dante (NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2000) and Alison Cornish, Reading Dante’s Stars (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000) for Italian Culture 20.1-2 (2002): 222-225.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES & BIBLIOGRAPHIES
"A Selection of Italian Science Fiction Novels and Short Stories Translated and Published in English," with Salvatore Proietti. Italian Science Fiction. Science Fiction Studies 126.42.2 (2015): 354-356.
The Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies. Ed. Gaetana Marrone and Paolo Puppa. 2 vols. (London: Routledge Press, 2006).
• Folgore da San Gimignano
• Rustico di Filippo
The Encyclopedia of Literature and Science (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002).
• Literature and Science in Italy
• Dante
• Leonardo da Vinci
• Giambattista Vico
TRANSLATIONS
De Matteo, Giovanni. The Connectivist Manifesto. Tr. Arielle Saiber and Salvatore Proietti, 2013.
40 documents co-translated with S. Baldassari for Images of Quattrocento Florence: Selected Writings in Literature, History, and Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
Ordine, Nuccio. Giordano Bruno and the Philosophy of the Ass (1987). Tr. Henryk Baranski and Arielle Saiber (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996).
The diaries of architect Paolo Soleri (1919-2013), 1994 (for the Cosanti Foundation).