Start with high-confidence italian literary criticism books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Dante Encyclopedia
Richard Lansing
Why Read the Classics?
Italo Calvino
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
The Written World and the Unwritten World
Dante
John Freccero, Rachel Jacoff
Pirandello and Film
Nina da Vinci Nichols, Jana O'Keefe Bazzoni
Mismapping the Underworld
John Kleiner
The Absence of Grace
Harry Berger, Harry Berger Jr.
The Spell of Italy
Richard Block
The Prodigious Muse
Virginia Cox
Approaches to Teaching the Works of Italo Calvino
Franco Ricci, Andrea Dini
Secrets of Inferno
Dan Burstein, Arne De Keijzer
The Unforgivable
Cristina Campo
A Literary Tour of Italy
Tim Parks
