About Massimo Verdicchio Massimo Verdicchio is professor of Italian and comparative literature at the University of Alberta. He is the author of Naming Things, Reading Dante Reading, and The Poetics of Dante’s Paradiso. Books by Massimo Verdicchio A Croce Reader Aesthetics, Philosophy, History, and Literary Criticism edited by Massimo Verdicchio Europe and Empire On the Political Forms of Globalization by (author) Massimo Cacciari edited by Alessandro Carrera translated by Massimo Verdicchio The Poetics of Dante's Paradiso by (author) Massimo Verdicchio The Unpolitical On the Radical Critique of Political Reason by (author) Massimo Cacciari edited by Alessandro Carrera translated by Massimo Verdicchio The Legacy of Benedetto Croce Contemporary Critical Views by (author) Jack D'Amico, Dain A. Trafton & Massimo Verdicchio