Books

Reading for the Food:  Art, Literature, and the Hungry Eye (forthcoming, 2019)

Berlin for Jews: A Twenty-First Century Companion (Chicago UP, 2016)

Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures (Princeton UP, 2012)

Michelangelo: A Life on Paper (Princeton UP, 2010)

Saytr Square: A Year, a Life in Rome (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006)

Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture (Yale UP, 1999)

Transuming Passion: Ganymede and the Erotics of Humanism (Stanford UP, 1991)

The Gods Made Flesh: Metamorphosis and the Pursuit of Paganism (Yale UP, 1986)

Nature’s Work of Art: Human Body as Image of the World (Yale UP 1975)

Books Edited

The Forms of Renaissance Thought: New Essays on Literature and Culture (in collaboration with Sean Keilen and Bradin Cormack), Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Renaissance Drama:  New Readings and Re-Readings,  Northwestern University Press, 1985

Renaissance Drama:  Modes, Motifs, Genres, Northwestern University Press, 1984

Renaissance Drama:  Relations and Influences, Northwestern University Press,1983

Renaissance Drama:  Drama and Society, Northwestern University Press, 1982

Renaissance Drama:  Comedy, Northwestern University Press,  1979

Renaissance Drama in the Theater, Northwestern University Press, 1978

Renaissance Drama:  The Celebratory Mode, Northwestern University Press, 1977

Articles

“Ingestion:  What’s for Dinner?” Cabinet 63 (2017)

“Rom, Geschichte, und die Spolien des Geistes,” in Ruinen in der Moderne, Reimer Verlag, 2011

“La voce di Michelangelo,” in l’Atlante della letteratura italiana Einaudi, Vol. 2, 2012

“Dante, Michelangelo, and What We Talk About When We Talk About Poetry,” in Laureations:  Essays in Memory of Richard Helgerson, Delaware University Press, 2012

“Enlisting in Harry Berger’s Imaginary Forces,” chapter in A Touch More Rare, ed. D. L. Miller, Fordham University Press, 2009

“Praxiteles’ Aphrodite and the Love of Art,” in The Forms of Renaissance Thought

“Picture This,” Parnassus, 2007

“Time, Space, and Burgundy,” The Yale Review, January 2004

“Merchants of Venice,” Michigan Quarterly Review, 2002

Reprinted in Jewish in America, ed. S. Blair and J.E. Freedman, U. of Michigan Press, 2004

“What did Shakespeare Read?” chapter in New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare, ed. S. Wells, M. deGrazia, 200 1, Reprinted online at www.fathom.com, 2002,  Reprinted in QPB Reader’s Guide to Shakespeare, 2002

“Ruins and Visions:  Spenser, Pictures, Rome,” in Edmund Spenser: Essays on Culture and Allegory, ed. J. K. Morrison and M. Greenfield, Ashgate, 2000

“The Heritage of Zeuxis:  Painting, Rhetoric, and History,” in Antiquity and its Interpreters, ed. A. Kuttner, A.Payne, and R. Smick, Cambridge University  Press, 2000, rpt. 2012

“Feasts for the Eyes, Foods for Thought,” Social Research, Spring 1999

“The Renaissance Undead:  Renaissance and Antiquity Face to Face,” Res, Fall, 1998

“La classicità mai morta:  l’antico e il Rinascimento a confronto,” in La rappresentazione dell’Altro nei testi del rinascimento, ed. S. Zatti, Morgana, Maria Pazzini Facci editore, 1998

“Cosmas and Damian:  Of Medicine, Miracles, and the Economies of the Body,” in Organ Transplantation:  Meanings and Realities, ed. S. Youngner, R. Fox, and L. O’Connell, University of Wisconsin Press, 1996

“Making Pictures Speak:  Italian Art, Elizabethan Literature, Modern Scholarship,” Renaissance Quarterly, 1995

“The Beholder’s Tale:  Ancient Sculpture, Renaissance Narratives,”  Representations, Fall 1993

“Rome’s Other Population,” Raritan, Fall 1991

Introduction, Roman Family Portraits, Photographs by Patrick Faigenbaum, Art Institute of Chicago, 1988

“‘Living Sculptures’:  Ovid, Michelangelo, and The Winter’s Tale, ELH, 1981

Reprinted in Shakespeare and the Arts, ed. S. Orgel and S. Keilen, Garland, 1999

“Diana and Actæon:  The Myth as Synthesis,” English Literary Renaissance, 1980

“The Theatrical Consistency of Richard II,” Shakespeare Quarterly, 1978

“The Imperialist Arts of Inigo Jones:  A Review Article,” Renaissance Drama, 1976

Reviews and other shorter writings (a selection)

“Apollo Belvedere,” “Ganymede,” “Laocoön,” “Rome,” “Torso Belvedere,” entries for Harvard Dictionary of the Classical Tradition, Harvard University Press, 2010

“An Appetite for Scholarship:  In search of Michelangelo and a Cheese Named Marzolino,” Chronicle of Higher Education, Academic Life Section, 12 September 2008

“Ganymede,” entry for Encyclopedia of Lesbian and Gay Histories and Cultures, Garland, 2000

Thomas Hyde, The Poetic Theology of Love, Modern Philology 1988

Edmund Creeth, Mankynde in Shakespeare, Modern Philology, 1980

S.K. Heninger, The Cosmographical Glasse, Shakespeare Quarterly, 1979

Journalistic Writing (selection)

“Borgogna nella Côte de Nuits,” Pane e vino (Italy), 1990

Regular column, “Foraging,” for Gambero Rosso USA, 1994-2013

“Mangiaci ancora, Sam,” Gambero Rosso, 1993

“New York:  la mecca del kosher,” Gambero Rosso (1996)

“The First Italian-American,” Gambero Rosso USA (1996)

Regular Column for East Hampton Star, “Vintage L.I.,” 1998-2001

Regular music criticism for East Hampton Star, 1998-2000

“Border Crossings,” Beard House Magazine, 2000

Regular Articles for Hamptons Country, 2000