Monographs
2012. | Cosmos - Soul - Text. Forms of participation and their literary mediation. Marsilio Ficino, Pierre de Ronsard, Giordano Bruno. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter (New Forum for General and Comparative Literature Vol. 48), 2012. Reviews: S. Kodera, Renaissance Quarterly 66 (2013), pp. 1482-1483 L. Simonis, Comparatio 5 (2013), pp. 341-343 J. Lethbridge, The Spenser Review 44.1.5 (2015) C. Lecouteux, Le Moyen Âge 120 (2014), p. 194 M. Cer, Medioevo latino 35 (2014), 301-302 W. Helmich, Journal for Romance Philology 131/4 (2015), pp. 1078-1082 J.-H. Witthaus, Romanistisches Jahrbuch 64 (2013), pp. 204-207 |
2005. | Archival poetics. The function of knowledge in Goethe's "Faust II". Tübingen: Niemeyer (Hermaea, vol. 108), 2005. Reviews. A. Heydenreich, Germanistik, 50 (2005), p. 290 F. Möbus, Goethe-Jahrbuch 123 (2006), pp. 272-274 A. Vierhufe, "Goethe as creative archivist. Knowledge transformation in Faust II", IASLonline, 25.10.2006. |
Essays
2022 | Ibridismo siciliano e memoria in Retablo di Vincenzo Consolo. In: Brühne, Julia; von Heydendorff, Christiane Conrad; Fanfani, Giulia; Rivoletti, Christian (eds.): Forme ibride e intrecci intermediali. Da Giotto e Dante alla narrativa e alla docufiction contemporanee/Hybridisierung der Formen und intermediale Verflechtungen. From Giotto and Dante to contemporary narrative and docu-fiction. Frankfurt am Main. Peter Lang.from Giotto and Dante to contemporary narrative and docu-fiction. Frankfurt am Main. Peter Lang. 129-141 |
2021 | Introduzione. In: Lettere Aperte. 7/2020,7. 2021. 5-6. |
2021 | Italian literature of the Cinquecento. In: Antje Lobin, Eva-Tabea Meineke (eds.): Handbook Italian. Language - Literature - Culture. For study, teaching and practice. Berlin. Erich Schmid. 2021. 365-375. |
2021 | Goethe's Concept of Archive and Archive Poetics using the Example of a Scene from Faust II. In: Klaus Kastberger, Christian Neuhuber (eds.): Archives in/from literature. The interplay of two media. Berlin. De Gruyte. 2021, 13-27. |
2020. | Self-assurance through dream description. The role of dreams for autobiographical writing in Cardano's 'De vita propria'. In: Leaps in time. 24,3/4. 2020, 329-348. |
2020. | La memoria risorgimentale ne I vecchi e i giovani di Luigi Pirandello. In: Domenica Elisa Cicala/Fausto De Michele (eds.): Pirandello in un mondo globalizzato. Narrazione - Memoria - Identità. Frankfurt a. M. Peter Lang. 2020, 5-23. |
2019. | Judgment and Comedy in the Italian Renaissance and in Giordano Bruno's Candelaio. In: Yearbook of Literary Studies 60 (2019), 181-203. |
2019. | Les sémantisations de la mer dans le roman Partir (2006) de Tahar ben Jelloun. In: Albert Göschl, Yvonne Völkl (eds.): Observations. Observations on Literature and Morality in Romania and the Americas. Vienna Lit. 2019, 321-330 |
2018. | The aesthetics of wonder and amazement in Carlo Gozzi's Fiabe teatrali, especially in L'amore delle tre melarance and L'augellino belverde. In: Natascha Adamowsky, Nicola Gess, Mireille Schnyer, Hugues Marchal, Johannes Bartuschat (eds.): Archaeology of special effects. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink, 2018, pp. 145-159. |
2017. | Metaphysical and social communication as foundations of Marsilio Ficino's philosophical poetics. In: Jutta Eming and Michael Dallapiazza...., pp. 87-100. |
2017. | The lost meaning of action. Manzoni's tragedies in a European context. In: Manzoni's Europe - Europe's Manzoni/L'Europa di Manzoni - Il Manzoni dell'Europa. Edited by Angela oster, Francesca Broggi-Wüthrich and Barbara Vinken. Munich: Herbert Utz, 2017, pp. 209-247. |
2016. | The aesthetics of wonder and amazement in Carlo Gozzi's Fiabe teatrali, especially in L'amore delle tre melarance and L'augellino belverde. |
2015. | The Aesthetic Dimension of Spiritual Beings in the Early Modern Period. In: Steffen Schneider (ed.): Aisthetics of the Spirits - Spirits in Early Modern Science, Religion, Literature and Music. Göttingen/Berlin: V&U unipress (EpiFaNIen - Frühe Neuzeit interdisziplinär, vol. 1), 2015, pp. 9-18. |
2015. | Machina abscondita. The technology of nature and the lack of man in Fontenelle's "Entretiens sur la pluralité des mondes". In: Art and/or technology? Function and Repositioning of a Dialogue in the Literatures and Knowledge Cultures of the Early Modern Period. Edited by Angela Oster. Freiburg i. Br.: Rombach 2015, pp. 265-279. |
2015. | Mysticism and violence in Gustave Flaubert's 'La Légende de saint Julien l'Hospitalier'. In: Comparatio. Journal for Comparative Literature, 7 (2015), pp. 53-74. |
2014. | Writing After Copernicus: Epistemology and Poetics in Giordano Bruno's "Ash Wednesday Supper". In: The Making of Copernicus. Early Modern Transformations of a Scientist and his Science. Edited by Wolfgang Neuber, Thomas Rahn, Claus Zittel. Leiden, Boston: Brill (Intersections. Interdisciplinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, Vol. 36), 2014, pp. 131-154. |
2013. | The performativity of Marsilio Ficino's "De amore". In: Romanistisches Jahrbuch 63 (2012) [2013], pp. 217-244. |
2010. | Faust the restless. Goethe's recourse to an anthropological concept of the early modern period, especially Marsilio Ficino's. In: Faust, homme Renaissance. Edited by Jacques le Rider and Bernard Pouderon. Paris: Beauchesne 2010, pp. 79-92. |
2007. | The popular is nowhere. Mass culture, wish fulfillment and aesthetic reflection in Michel Houellebecq's "Plateforme". In: The Popular of Society. Systems theory and popular culture. Edited by Christian Huck and Carsten Zorn. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 2007. pp. 97-116. |
2007. | The ciphered text of the stars. On the perception, meaning and poetization of the sky in Bruno's "Cabala del cavallo pegaseo con l'aggiunta dell'asino cillenico". In: The Cabala of Pegasus. Approaches to a text by Giordano Bruno. Edited by Steffen Schneider and Philipp Theisohn. Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 2007 (special issue of the Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, issue 52/1 2007), pp. 57-77. |
2007. | Eros and Imagination in Ariosto's "Orlando Furioso". In: Eros. On the Aestheticization of a (New) Platonic Philosophy in Modern Times and Modernity. Edited by Maria Moog-Grünewald. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter (Neues Forum für Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft vol. 32), 2006, pp. 51-71. |