Carlo Caruso has published widely in the areas of the classical tradition, the history of verse forms, literature and the arts from humanism to neo-classicism, literature and myth, literature and music, comparative literature (particularly Anglo-Italian), travel literature and the history of scholarship. He is the author of critical editions of Paolo Rolli, Libretti per musica; Paolo Giovio, Ritratti, and Diomede Borghese, Orazioni accademiche.