Frederick A. de Armas focuses on the literature of the Spanish Golden Age (Cervantes, Calderón, Claramonte, Lope de Vega), often from a comparative perspective. His interests include the politics of astrology; magic and the Hermetic tradition; ekphrasis; the relations between the verbal and the visual particularly between Spanish literature and Italian art; and the interconnections between myth and empire during the rule of the Habsburgs. His books and edited collections include: The Invisible Mistress: Aspects of Feminism and Fantasy in the Golden Age; Return of Astraea: An Astral-Imperial Myth in Calderón; Prince in the Tower: Perceptions of "La vida es sueño"; Heavenly Bodies: The Realms of "La Estrella de Sevilla"; A Star-Crossed Golden Age: Myth and the Spanish Comedia; Cervantes Raphael and the Classics; and European Literary Careers: The Author from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Most recently he has published Ekphrasis in the Age of Cervantes (2005); and Quixotic Frescoes: Cervantes and Italian Renaissance Art (2006); Hacia la tragedia áurea: lecturas para un nuevo milenio (2008); Ovid in the Age of Cervantes (2010), Don Quixote among the Saracens: Clashes of Civilizations and Literary Genres (2011) and Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain (2013).