Italy, national identity, literature and history, Dante, authorship and authority, Ariosto, Machiavelli, Petrarch, Boccaccio, epic and romance, Renaissance, early modern, Middle Ages

anthropology, Italy, fascism, urban design, architecture, Italian colonialism

art and literature, visual and textual arts and languages in the Renaissance, historiography of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Renaissance Europe, Atlantic History, History of Books and Reading, history of political thought, History of Historiography

feminist theory, psychoanalysis, gender studies, comparative literature, Italian studies, narrative, European decadence, travel writing