Papers
& preprint

Covering moves,
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 325 (1991), 903-920.
Covering homotopy 3-spheres,
Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 67 (1992), 287-292.
Manifolds as branched covers of spheres,
Rend. Ist. Mat. Univ. Trieste XXV (1993), 419-439.
3-manifolds and pullbacks of branched coverings,
Journal of Knot theory and its Ramifications 4 (1995), 493-501.
Four-manifolds as 4-fold branched covers of S4,
Topology 34 (1995), 497-508.
Representing links in 3-manifolds by branched coverings of S3,
with M. Mulazzani,
Manuscripta Mathematica 97 (1998), 1-14.
Compact Stein surfaces with boundary as branched covers of B4,
with A. Loi,
Inventiones mathematicae 143
(2001), 325-348.
Braiding non-orientable surfaces in S4,
with D. Zuddas,
Atti Sem. Mat. Fis. Univ. Modena, Suppl. Vol. II. (2001), 229-239.
Lifting braids,
with M. Mulazzani,
Rend. Ist. Mat. Univ. Trieste, Suppl. 1, XXXII (2001), 193-219.
4-manifolds as covers of the 4-sphere branched over non-singular surfaces,
with M. Iori,
Geometry & Topology, 6 (2002), 393-401.
A universal ribbon surface in B4,
with D. Zuddas,
Proc. London Math. Soc. 90 (2005), 763-782.
The complex of pant decompositions of a surface,
with S. Benvenuti,
Topology Appl. 156 (2008), 399-419.
Involutions of 3-dimensional handlebodies,
with A. Pantaleoni,
Fund. Math. 215 (2011), 101-107.
Covering moves and Kirby calculus,
with I. Bobtcheva,
preprint.
A universal invariant of four-dimensional 2-handlebodies and three-manifolds,
with I. Bobtcheva,
preprint.
Branchfolds and rational conifolds,
with S. Benvenuti and G. Tomassoni,
preprint.
Lefschetz fibrations over the disk,
with N. Apostolakis and D. Zuddas,
preprint.
On four-dimensional 2-handlebodies and three-manifolds,
with I. Bobtcheva,
preprint.
Automorphisms of trivalent graphs,
with S. Benvenuti,
preprint.
Wild branching surfaces and topological 4-manifolds,
with G. Pollini,
in preparation.

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