History of Italy
Author of numerous scholarly articles and reviews dealing with Italian and Spanish literature, he published his second academic book, "Lodovico Dolce: Renaissance Man of Letters", in 1997. He is also the author and editor of several academic texts, most notably a pseudonymous study "Beautiful Italy, Beloved Shores. An Illustrated Cultural History of Italy", Vol. 1: "From Prehistoric Times to the Fall of the Roman Empire" and two anthologies of Italian literature with text in Italian and notes in scholarly articles deal with authors such as Giovanni Boccaccio, Angelo Poliziano, Pietro Bembo, Giordano Bruno, Miguel de Cervantes, and Giambattista Marino.