Curriculum Vitae
Professor Sal Di Maria
Biographical Information

Sal's Hometown
Delia, Italy
Early 1950's
 
 
   

SAL DIMARIA received his early education in the Italian public schools, the B.A. in French from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Ph.D. in Italian from the University of Wisconsin. He taught at the University of Tennessee for 38 years, starting in 1985. In 1984, he co-authored with Robert Rodini, Ludovico Ariosto: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism and has since written books and articles on various Renaissance authors, ranging from Dante and Boccaccio to Machiavelli, Guicciardini, Bandello, Cecchi, and others. He has also written on the founding of the American Republic and on Italian fascism. See Curriculum Vitae at http://web.utk.edu/~sdimaria/

  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, Pp24
 

Hanno ammazzato Don Paolo Tasca. Bonfirraro editore, 2022, Pp.256.

 

Sangue e droga a Fontanarossa. Bonfirraro editore, 2024. Pp. 264.

 

Il passato non dimentica (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.
  La questione del Mezzogiorno: Ieri e oggi, In onore di Michael Lettieri. 2024.