Michael Sherberg

Michael Sherberg received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles. His areas of interest include Italian literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as well as Italian prose after the Unification, particularly children’s literature. He has published articles on Boccaccio, Boiardo, Tasso, and Machiavelli, the canto carnascialesco tradition in Florence, and the Italian questione della lingua in the sixteenth century. He is the author of Rinaldo: Character and Intertext in Ariosto and Tasso (Anma Libri, 1993) and editor of Tasso’s Rinaldo (Longo, 1990). More recently he edited Approaches to Teaching Collodi’s Pinocchio and Its Adaptations for the MLA’s Approaches to Teaching World Literature series. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled The Governance of Friendship: Law and Gender in the Decameron, for which he received an NEH senior fellowship during the 2006-2007 academic year.