Curriculum Vitae
Professor Sal Di Maria
Biographical Information

Sal's Hometown
Delia, Italy
Early 1950's
 
 
    
  Educational Background
 

Ph. D. 1978 University of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A. 1972 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
B.A. 1970 University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
1970 Diplôme de Langue Française, Université de Lyon, France
1958   Liceo-Domenicani di Linguaglossa (CT), Italy
      
  Academic Specialty
  Medieval and Renaissance literature  
      
  Publications
  Books 
  Ludovico Ariosto: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism, 1956-1980 (with Robert J. Rodini). Columbia: Missouri U P, 1984. Pp. 269.
  The Italian Tragedy in the Renaissance: Cultural Realities and Theatrical Innovations. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2002. Pp.273.
  The Poetics of Imitation in the Italian Theater of the Renaissance (Toronto:  University of Toronto Press, 2013). Pp. 222.
  Towards a Unified Italy: Historical, Cultural, and Literary Perspectives on the Southern Question, New York/London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. Pp.263.
  The Immigrant: A Journey to the American Dream. Xlibris: Bloomington, Indiana, 2020, Pp248.
 

Hanno ammazzato Don Marino (in progress).

  Articles and Book Chapters
  “Structure of the Early Form of the 'Beffa' in the Italian Renaissance,” Canadian Journal of Italian Studies, n. 4 (1980-81): 227-239.
  “Fortune and the  'Beffa'  in  Bandello's  Novelle,”  Italica,  59,  n. 4 (Winter, 1982), 306-315.
  “Nicomaco and Sofronia:  Fortune and Desire in Machiavelli's  Clizia,” Sixteenth  Century  Journal,  XIV,  n. 2  (1983),  201-213.
  “Procedimenti canterini nella Vita di Benvenuto Cellini,” Studi e problemi di critica testuale, n. 19 (ottobre, 1984): 31-52.
  “Struttura dialogica nel Principe di Machiavelli,” M L N, 99, n. 1 (January, 1984): 65-79.
  “Blame-by -praise Irony in the Ecatommiti of Giraldi Cinzio,” Quaderni d'italianistica, VI, n. 2 (Autunno, 1985): 178-192.
  “Linguaggio teatrale nelle commedie di Giovan Maria Cecchi,” Italian Quarterly, XXVII, 104, (Spring, 1986): 5-16.
  “Giovan Maria Cecchi: Another of Molière’s Sources,” Romance Notes, 27, n. 2 (Fall, 1987): 185-190.
  “The Ethical Premises for the Mandragola’s New Society,” Italian Culture, VI-VII (1986-1989): 17-33.
  “Narratorial Strategy in Guicciardini’s Storia d’Italia.” Stanford Italian Review, IX, n. 1-2 (1990): 115-132.
  “Machiavelli’s Ironic View of History: The Istorie Fiorentine, Renaissance Quarterly”, XLV, n.2 (Summer, 1992): 248-70.
  “Studi machiavelliani in America negli ultimi dieci anni,” Esperienze letterarie XVII, n.3 (luglio-settembre, 1992):, 77-94.
  “Divine Order, Fate, Fortune, and Human Action in Guicciardini's Storia d’Italia,” Forum Italicum, vol. 28, no. 1 (Spring, 1994): 22-40.
  “Spazio e tematica nell’Orazia di Pietro Aretino,” Pietro Aretino e la cultura del Rinascimento. A cura di M. Lettieri, S. Bancheri e R. Buranello. Vol. II. Roma: Salerno Editrice, 1995: 803-828.
  “The Dramatic hic et nunc in the Tragedy of the Italian Renaissance,” Italica, 72, no. 3 (1995): 275-297.
  “Toward an Italian Dramatic Stage: Rucellai’s Oreste,” M L N (1996): 123-48.
  “Giovan Maria Cecchi.,” Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Vol.1. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999: 374-75.
  “Renaissance Drama: Tragedy.” Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Vol. 2. NewYork: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999: 182-87.
  “Giambattista Giraldi Cinthio.” Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Vol. 3. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999: 68-69.
  “The Idealogical Debate on Princeship in the Theater of the Renaissance,” Studi Umanisitci Piceni, XXI, 2001: 187-211.
  “Semiotics of Theater in Rucellai’s Oreste: Sounds and Movements,” Miscellanea di Studi in Onore di Claudio Varese. Roma: Vecchiarelli, 2001: .315-330.
  “Dante’s Exile: The Fate of a Doomed Intellectual on the Eve of the Renaissance.” In Medusa’s Gaze: Essays on Gender, Literature, and Aesthetics in the Italian Renaissance. In Honor of Robert J. Rodini. Eds. P..Ferrara, E. Giusti, and J. Tylus._Italiana_ 11 (2004): 215-32.
  “Italian Reception of Greek Tragedy.” in A Companion to Greek Tragedy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 2005: 428-443.
  “Dante’s Exile and the Forces of Globalization ante litteram.” Cross-Cultural Relations and Exile. Eds. S. Bancheri and D. Issa-Sayegh. Legas: Ottawa, 2005: Pp 168-188.
 

“From prose to stage: Machiavelli’s Mandragola,” M L N (2006): 130-53.
  “Machiavelli on Stage: Mandragola and Clizia.” Seeking Real Truths: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Machiavelli. Patricia Vilches and Gerald Seaman,  eds.  Boston: Brill, 2007: 173-198.
  “Imitation and the Continuum of History: The Classical Ancestry of the American Revolution and Fascist Italy.”Rivista di Studi Italiani, vol. 28, no. 2 (Dicembre, 2010):186-204 .
  “Cecchi’s Assiuolo: A Creative Imitation of the Old and a Telling Reflection
of Contemporary Realities.” Forum Italicum. Vol. 45, no.2 (Fall, 2011): 287-310.
  “La questione del Mezzogiorno e la crisi identitaria del Sud,” Italica. Vol. 91, no.4 (Winter, 2014): 803-830.
  “In difesa di Garibaldi.”  M L N. Vol. 131, no.1 (January 2016): 97-118.
  “Mass Emigration and the 1860 Unification of Italy,” Italian Canadiana. Special Issue, Vol. 31 (2017): 7-34.