ORIENTATION
PARADISE
- The Cosmography of Paradise: The Other World from Ancient Mesopotamia to Medieval Europe, The Warburg Institute Colloquia, 27 (London: The Warburg Institute, 2016).
- Maps of Paradise (London: British Library; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013); German transl. Gina Beitscher (Darmstatd: Philipp von Zabern, WBG, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2015).
- Alla scoperta del paradiso: Un Atlante del cielo sulla terra (Palermo: Sellerio, 2011).
- Il paradiso in terra: Mappe del giardino dell’Eden (Milan: Bruno Mondadori, 2007).
- Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth (London: British Library; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006).
- ‘Double Standards? Medieval Marriage Symbolism and Christian Views on the Muslim Paradise’, in The Symbolism of Marriage in Early Christianity and the Latin Middle Ages: Images, Impact, Cognition, ed. L. C. Engh (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2019), pp. 179-202.
- ‘Acquiring Wings: Augustine’s Recurrent Tensions on Creation and the Body’, in Et Amicorum: Essays on Renaissance Humanism and Philosophy in Honour of Jill Kraye, eds M. Meserve and A. Ossa-Richardson (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 245-261.
- ‘Giving Birth in the Garden of Eden’, in Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Middle Ages: History, Medicine, and Anthropology, ed. C. Gilson Dopfel (Moraga, CA: Saint Mary's College of California, 2018), pp. 45-55.
- ‘Wedded Bliss? Early Medieval Views on the Place of Marriage in Eden’, in Sacramentum Magnum: Die Ehe in der mittelaterlichen Theologie / Le Mariage dans la théologie médiévale / Marriage in Medieval Theology, ed. P. Blazek (Münster: Aschendorff, 2018), pp. 69-94.
- ‘Luther’s Paradise Flooded’, in Luther, Kolumbus und die Folgen: Welt im Wandel, 1500-1600, eds Th. Eser and S. Armer (Nürnberg: Germanische Nationalmuseum, 2017), pp. 14-21.
- Die Suche nach dem Paradies, directed by Andreas Sawall, Participation, Ifage Filmproduktion (Wiesbaden) for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, 2017.
- Dante’s Heaven; Medieval Mapping; Medieval Maps of Paradise, Serious Science 2017 http://serious-science.org/author/scafi
- All Space Will Pass Away: The Spiritual, Spaceless and Incorporeal Heaven of Valentin Weigel (1533-1588)’, in Boundaries, Extents and Circulations: Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, eds J. Regier and K. Vermeir (Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2016), pp. 209-227.
- ‘Pico e il paradiso: un’idea rinascimentale della perfezione umana’, in Giovanni Pico della Mirandola e la “Dignità” dell’uomo: Storia e fortuna di un discorso mai pronunciato, Schifanoia 46/47 (2014), pp. 93-112.
- Le Paradis? Histoire d’une représentation en Occident, directed by Florence Mauro, Participation, Zadig Productions (Paris) for Arte, 2014.
- ‘After Ptolemy: The Mapping of Eden’, in Ptolemy’s Geography: The Renaissance, eds Z. Shalev and Ch. Burnett (London-Turin: The Warburg Institute-Aragno, 2011), pp. 187-206.
- ‘Epilogue: A Heaven on Earth’, in Paradise in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian views, eds M. Bockmuehl and G. G. Stroumsa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 210-220.
- ‘Atlantis’, in The Classical Tradition, eds A. Grafton and S. Settis (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010), pp. 100-102.
- Between the Ears: A Map of Paradise, co-author and co-speaker, Falling Trees Production for BBC Radio 3, 2008.
- ‘The African Paradise of Cardinal Carvajal: New Light on the “Kunstmann II Map”, 1502-1506’, in Visions/Versions of Africa in Renaissance and Reformation Europe, special issue ofRenaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme, N.S. 31/2 (2008), ed. K. Lowe, pp. 7-26.
- Il paradiso in terra, author and speaker, Alle otto della sera, Rai, Radio Due, 2007.
- ‘Il paradiso terrestre di Egidio da Viterbo, cabalista cristiano’, in Roma nella svolta tra Quattro e Cinquecento, eds M. Calvesi, G. Savarese, S. Colonna (Rome: De Luca, 2004), pp. 209-221.
- ‘L’Île du paradis dans la cartographie médiévale’, in Chemins d’étoiles: Îles funestes, îles bienheureuses, 12 (août 2004), pp. 148-156.
- ‘À la recherche du paradis perdu: Les Mappemondes du XIII siècle’, in Ruptures: De la discontinuité dans la vie artistique, ed. J. Galard (Paris: Musée du Louvre-École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, 2002), pp. 17-57.
- 'Oltre gli stereotipi: Il Rinascimento e la critica cristiana al paradiso di Maometto’, in Il Sacro nel Rinascimento, ed. L. Secchi Tarugi (Milan: Nuovi Orizzonti, 2002), pp. 661-672.
- ‘Paradise Found and Lost around 1500’, in Vasco Da Gama: Men Voyages and Cultures, ed. J. R. Magalhaes, 2 vols (Lisbon: Comissão Nacional para as Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses, 2001), II, pp. 429-446.
- ‘Il paradiso terrestre di Fra Mauro’, in Storia dell’Arte, 93/94 (1999), pp. 219-227.
- ‘Mapping Eden: Cartographies of the Earthly Paradise’, in Mappings, ed. D. Cosgrove (London: Reaktion Books, 1999), pp. 50-70.
- Hebrew translation of ‘Mapping Eden: Cartographies of the Earthly Paradise’, in Zmanim (Tel Aviv), 19/73 (Winter 2000-2001), pp. 19-29.
MAPS & MAPPING
- ‘A Friend of the Wind: Fathi Hassan’s Response to Maps’, in Fathi Hassan: Shifting Sands (London: The Sunderland Collection Art Programme, 2024), pp. 103-107.
- ‘The Christianisation of Alexander on Medieval Maps of the World’, in Alexander the Great: The Making of a Myth, ed. Richard Stoneman (London: The British Library, 2022), pp. 188-197, 287-288.
- Dall’alba dello spazio al tramonto del tempo: Ugo di San Vittore e la geo-storia della salvezza cristiana nella cartografia medievale’, in La scuola di San Vittore e la letteratura medievale, eds C. Bologna and C. Zacchetti (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2022), pp. 37-55, 493-497.
- ‘Saint Brendan’s Island on European Maps (1300–1500)’, in St. Brandan in europäischer Perspektive – St. Brendan in European Perspective/ Textuelle und bildliche Transformationen – Textual and Pictorial Transformations, eds J. Bockmann and S. Holtzhauer (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht; Brill Deutschland GmbH, 2022), pp. 167-194.
- ‘The End is Near: Medieval mappae mundi and the Apocalypse’, in Repertoire of Written Sources and Artifacts of Prognostication in the Middle Ages, eds H. -Ch. Lehner et al. (Berlin and New York: Walter-de-Gruyter, 2020), pp. 768-776.
- ‘Maps | Christianity | Modern Europe and America’, in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), vol. 17, eds Ch. Helmer, S. L. McKenzie, and others (Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2019), pp. 858-860.
- ‘Cosmographical Map’; ‘Cultural and Social Significance of Globes’, in The History of Cartography, IV, Cartography in the European Enlightenment, eds M. H. Edney and M. Sponberg Pedley (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019), pp. 319-320 and 578-582.
- with C. Delano-Smith, ‘Maps’ in The Oxford Encvclopedia of the Bible and the Arts, ed. T. Beal (New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 2015), pp. 10-20.
- ‘Coping with Muslim Jerusalem between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Islam and the Holy City on Christian World Maps’, in Between Jerusalem and Europe: Essays in Honour of Bianca Kühnel, eds R. Bartal and H. Vorholt (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2015), pp. 257-279.
- ‘Mapping the End: The Apocalypse in Medieval Cartography’, Literature and Theology, 26/4 (December 2012), special issue: Apocalypse Now and Then: Prophecy and Imagination from the Anglo-Saxons to the Post-Moderns, pp. 400-416.
- ‘Le premier homme comme microcosme et préfiguration du Christ: la Mappemonde d’Ebstorf et le nom d’Adam’, in Micrologus. Adam. Le premier homme. ed. A. Paravicini Bagliani (Florence: Sismel, 2012), pp. 183-197.
- ‘Soggetti a carattere musicale nella cartografia europea tra Medioevo e Rinascimento’, in Itineraria: Letteratura di viaggio e conoscenza del mondo dall’Antichità al Rinascimento, 6 (2008), pp. 121-144.
- ‘Europe and the Mediterranean: Medieval West Geography and World View’; ‘Medieval West Mapmaking’, in The Oxford Companion to World Exploration, ed. D. Buisseret, 2 vols (New York: Oxford University Press: 2007), I, pp. 271-273 and 273-274.
- ‘Defining Mappae Mundi’, in The Hereford World Map: Medieval World Maps and their Context, ed. P. D. A. Harvey (London: British Library, 2006), pp. 345-354.
- ‘The Image of Persia in Western Medieval Cartography’, in Proceedings of the V European Conference of Iranian Studies (Bologna: Societas Iranologica Europaea, University of Bologna, 2006), pp. 223-234.
- ‘Les Colonnes d’Hercule dans la cartographie médiévale: Limite de la Méditerranée et porte du paradis’, in Le Rivage des mythes: Une géocritique meditérranéenne, I, Le Lieu et son mythe, ed. B. Westphal (Limoges: Presses Universitaires de Limoges, 2001), pp. 339-365.
- ‘Fra Mauro’s World Map’, in Medieval Trade, Travel and Exploration, eds J. B. Friedman and K. M. Figg (New York and London: Garland, 2000), pp. 383-386.
SACRED GEOGRAPHY & PILGRIMAGE
- with V. Della Dora, A. Maddrell and H. Walton, Christian Pilgrimage, Landscape and Heritage: Journeying to the Sacred (New York and London: Routledge, 2015).
- ‘La sopravvivenza della tradizione classica nella geografia medievale’, La Rivista di Engramma (online),150 (October 2017), pp. 407-412.
- with V. Della Dora and A. Maddrell, ‘Sacred crossroads: landscape and aesthetics in contemporary Christian pilgrimage’, in The Changing World Religion Map: Sacred Places, Identities, Practices and Politics, ed. S. D. Brunn, 5 vols (New York-Berlin: Springer, 2015), II, pp. 745-765.
- ‘From Biblical to Non-Biblical Holy Places: The Holy Shrine of Subiaco as a Construct of Jerusalem’, in Visual Constructs of Jerusalem, eds B. Kühnel, G. Noga-Banai and H. Vorholt (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014), pp. 45-55.
- ‘La sopravvivenza dell’apoteosi classica nella tradizione geografica medievale: le Colonne d’Ercole, segno cartografico della divinizzazione cristiana’, in Apotheosis: Becoming God, eds T. Gnoli and F. Muccioli (Bononia University Press: 2014), pp. 427-440.
- ‘Sacred geography’ [with C. Delano Smith], in Sacred Places on Maps, ed. Zs. Török (Pannonhalma: Pannonhalmi Főapátság, 2005), pp. 33-54, 121-140.