Joseph’s College in Patchogue, N.Y. He completed his Ph.D. at New York University in Seventeenth- Century Studies. Professor Ricciardi is co-editor of the Milton and Melville Review and has published numerous articles on the relationship between faith and literature. He is author of the book length study John Milton’s Incarnational Poetics: The Roles of Mary and Jesus in Paradise Regained. His commitment to Christological poetics, Scriptural authority, and the epic tradition sustains and informs all of his research. Content copyright . Seat of Wisdom Journal. All rights reserved.