• Le muse, le maschere e il sublime. Giambattista Vico e la poesia nell'età della "ragione spiegata" 

  Lollini, Massimo (Guida, 1992)

  This book studies Vico’s reflection on the evolution of poetry, poetics and rhetoric from Renaissance to Baroque. Vico believes that poetry, having lost its mythological origins, no longer has any eternal or fixed content. ...
• Intrecci mediterranei. La testimonianza di Vincenzo Consolo 

  Lollini, Massimo (Italica, 2005)

  The essay studies the relationship between the sea and the orientation towards the infinite, between the sea and war that is established in Greek culture. Vincenzo Consolo in his writings reflects on the ecological and ...
• Norberto Bobbio e l'autobiografia intellettuale contemporanea 

  Lollini, Massimo; Lollini, Massimo (Il Mulino, 2007)

  "Il saggio studia la disaffezione alla scrittura autobiografica in prima persona in forme che in maniera sia pure diversa manifestano la comune tendenza «oggettivante» a trasformare l'io in un Sé come un altro, come direbbe ...
• Il vuoto della forma. Scrittura, Testimonianza e Verità 

  Lollini, Massimo (Marietti, 2001)

  The book examines the formation of a philosophical and religious idea of testimony in antiquity by focusing on some selected texts from Plato, the Bible and Augustine. Then it studies the emergence of the literary notion ...
• Vico's More than Human Humanism 

  Lollini, Massimo, 1954- (Annali d'Italianistica, 2011)

  This essay considers how in Vico the alterity of nature plays a role in the formation of humanity, as part of the complexity and interconnectivity of life, resisting acritical historicization and reduction to purely human ...
• "I narratori di Pasolini e l'angolo d'incidenza della vita" 

  Lollini, Massimo, 1954- (Il Piccolo Hans, 1994)

  A study of "Petrolio" by Pier Paolo Pasolini
• Letteratura e trauma in Primo Levi 

  Lollini, Massimo, 1954- (Peter Lang, 2008)

  This article studies the importance of literature for Primo Levi's survival in Auschwitz.
• Antropologia ed etica della scrittura in Italo Calvino 

  Lollini, Massimo, 1954- (Annali d'Italianistica, 1997)

  This article studies the relationships between anthropology and phenomenology in the works of Italo Calvino.
• "Il Mediterraneo dalla contingenza metafisica di Montale all'apertura etica di Saba" 

  Lollini, Massimo, 1954- (Presses Universitaires Paris Ouest,, 2009)

  This article studies the relationships of Eugenio Montale's and Umberto Saba's poetry to the Mediterranean sea.
• "La luce che si è spenta. Gramsci interprete di Renato Serra" 

  Lollini, Massimo, 1954- (Italian Culture, 1992)

  This article studies the relationship between Antonio Gramsci and Renato Serra in the context of early Nineteenth-Century Italian Culture.
• Perché si scrive? Primo Levi e Paul Celan 

  Lollini, Massimo, 1954- (Rivista di letterature moderne e comparate, 1999)

  This articles examines Primo Levi's relationship with Paul Celan's poetry and discusses the notion of "testimony" in literature
• Poetic Inspiration and the Ethics of Writing as a Source of Higher Narrative in Cervantes and Manzoni 

  Lollini, Massimo, 1954- (Pearson Education, India, 2010)

  This essay addresses the problematic nature of the elevated style within the modern novel; it focuses on Cervantes' Don Quixote —a fundamental point of reference for modern and post-modern theories of the novel— and on ...
• Humanism in the Digital Age 

  Lollini, Massimo, 1954- (Humanist Studies &the Digital Age, 2011)

  The importance of writing and reading in Humanist Studies from manuscript to digital culture.
• Return to Philology and Hypertext in and around Petrarch’s Rvf 

  Lollini, Massimo, 1954- (Humanist Studies & the Digital Age, 2011)

  This article examines the theoretical premises and consequences of the renewed attention to the intersection between philology, hermeneutics, and criticism in humanist studies in general and in Petrarch studies in particular. ...
• A review article of Il profondo e l'espressione. Filosofia, Psichiatria e Psicanalisi di Carlo Sini 

  Lollini, Massimo, 1954- (Italian Studies in Southern Africa, 1996)
• "Scrittura obbediente e mistica tridentina in Veronica Giuliani" 

  Lollini, Massimo, 1954- (Annali d'Italianistica, 1995)

  This article studies the relationships between mysticism and autobiography in the works of Veronica Giuliani and in the context of Baroque religion and culture.
• "Vico e il pensiero dell'infinito" 

  Lollini, Massimo, 1954- (Quodlibet, 2002)

  This article studies the evolution of the idea of "infinite" from Humanist and Renaissance philosophy to Giambattista Vico's idea of "ideal eternal history".
• “Filosofia ed eroismo tra Socrate e Vico” 

  Lollini, Massimo, 1954- (Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 2004)

  This article studies the evolution of the idea of "heroism" in Giambattista VIco's works.
• "The order of Writing and Death in Pirandello’s Il fu Mattia Pascal” 

  Lollini, Massimo, 1954- (PSA The Journal of the Pirandello Society of America, 2004)

  This essay examines the philosophical dimension of Pirandello's idea of writing and the different literary genres included in II fu Mattia Pascal (1904). The analysis begins with Pirandello's representation of journalism ...
• "Scrittura e alterità in Francesco Petrarca" 

  Lollini, Massimo, 1954- (Annali d'Italianistica, 2001)

  In this essay on "Scrittura e alterità in Petrarca," Massimo Lollini is interested in ethics as a point of intersection between philosophy and literature. Lollini studies how the notion of otherness in literature emerges ...

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