Eighty percent of Zolla's writings are in Italian; approximately ten percent are in English, with the remaining works in Spanish, French, and German. Essays and papers provided to international conferences are scattered in several journals and volumes of proceedings. His articles in Il corriere della sera, La Nación, and the Sunday supplement of Il sole 24ore (published between 2000 and 2002) have ranged from travel accounts to social, literary, and art criticism. An annotated bibliography in Italian, updated up to 1991, is available in La religione della terra: Vie sciamaniche, universi immaginali, iperspazi virtuali nell'esperienza sacrale della vita, edited by Grazia Marchianò (Como,Italy,1991),pp.35-41. This title, translated as Earth Religion: Shamanic Paths,Imaginal Worlds, Virtual Hyperspaces in the sacred Experience of Life, is a collection of interdisciplinary essays offered to Zolla on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday by Francisco Garcia Bazán, Ioan Petru Culianu, Terence Duquesne, Moshé Idel, Toshihiko and Toyo Izutsu, Wolfgang J. Jilek, Louise Jilek-Aall, Luce Lopez-Barralt, Adam McLean, Viviana Pâques, and Lawrence P. Sullivan.

Bibliographies updated to the year of Zolla's death (2002) are available in Viator 6 (2002): 24-34; and Idea viva: Gaceta de cultura 14 (2002): 523-54, where, in addition, the relevance of Zolla's esoteric thought is examined by F.G. Bazán in"E.Zolla y el esoterismo",pp.10-12, and 48; and Sheshat: Crosscultural Perspectives in Poetry and Philosophy 6 (2003), a special issue in memory of Zolla,edited by Terence Duquesne and Mark Angelo de Brito. See also Religion,Fiction, and History: Essays in Memory of Ioan Petru Culianu, 2 vols. edited by Sorin Antohi (Bucharest, 2001), a collection to which Zolla contributed his "Culianu" (pp.176-205), which includes an essential bibliographical survey on page 589.

Ten new works by Zolla appeared between 1991 and 2002, the last being Discesa all'Ade e resurrezione (Descent to Hades and resurrection),Milan,2002, a philosophical meditation on the hermetic motif of the journey of the human soul once the flesh has been discarded. Zolla's Il dio dell'ebbrezza: Antologia dei moderni dionisiaci (Turin, 1998), is an exegesis of the Dyonisian traces in modern literature, and Uscite dal mondo (Out of this World), Milan 1992 is a collection of essays focussing on the goal of life in light of the amazing new perspectives offered by virtual reality technology. Among Zolla's works in English, The Eclipse of the Intellectual (1959), translated by Raymond Rosenthal (New York,1968), Zolla's first controversial book in social criticism, contains a fierce attack on modern mass civilization. Zolla's influence is acknowledged in Marshall McLuhan's From Cliché to Archetype (New York,1970). Stefano Cochetti notices the strong influence of Theodor W.Adorno's and Max Horkheimer's negative dialectics on it. Zolla's The Writer and the Shaman : A Morphology of the American Indian, translated by Raymond Rosenthal (New York,1973), is an impressive study of the images of the Indian in American literature from the beginning of colonization to 1969.Zolla expanded and updated it to 1989 in the reprint of the book with Marsilio (Venice,1989).

Zolla's Language and Cosmogony (Ipswich,U.K.,1976) is a philologically-based analysis of Indo-European roots leading to a reconstruction of the Vedic cosmogonical process. His The Uses of Imagination and the Decline of the West (Ipswich,U.K.1978, A.I.R.E.Z, Montepulciano 2010) is a concise discussion on the decay of creative imagination as distinct from and opposite to fancy in the Modern West, with a learned, comparative approach to the theory of imagination in Iranian metaphysics and Indian Vedānta. Zolla's Archetypes: The Persistence of Unifying Patterns (New York, 1982) begins with a description of metaphysical experience in terms akin to samādhi in the Vedānta philosophy, then moves on to a consideration of the archetypal patterns and their modes of operation as mirrored in mathematics, poetry, history,and politics. Reviews include those by Paul D. Huss in Library Journal 5, no.1 (1982):897; Pamela van Schaik, English Studies of the University of South Africa 1 (1982); Philip Sherrard, Temenos 3 (1982): 186-190; and Victor H. Jones, The Journal of Mind and Behaviour 3, no.2 (1982): 175-177. The Abndrogyne:Fusion of the Sexes (London,1981), published in the United States as The Androgyne: Reconciliation of Male and Female (New York,1982), is a scholarly and beautifully illustrated pageant of the man-woman image throughout history and myth. Encyclopedic entries by Zolla include "Les religions des Amériques: Tribus Indiennes du Canada et des Etats-Units", in Encyclopédie des religions, edited by Frédéric Lenoit and Ysé T. Masquelier, vol.I,pp.1235-1250 (Paris,1997); and "Chamanisme: Amérique du Nord: Cheyenne";"Amérique du Noird: Inuit"; and"Amérique du Nord: Sioux"; in Dictionnaire critique de l'esoterisme, edited by Jean Servier, pp.280-282 (Paris,1998).

Zolla's essay, "Traditional Modes of Contemplation and Action" can be found in Contemplation and Action in World Religions: Selected Papers from the Rothko Chapel Colloquium "Traditional Modes of Contemplation and Action", edited by Yusuf Ibish and Ileana Marculescu (Houston, Tex., and Seattle, Wash.,1978). See also Ioan P.Culianu, "Elémire Zolla: Neglected Truths Exposed", Incognita I,n.2 (1990): 222-224; and Doriano Fasoli, ed. Un destino itinerante. Conversazioni tra Occidente e Oriente (Venice,1995).

Reviews on Zolla include Bernard Wall, "Against the Delirium of Negation", Times Literary Supplement (October 29,1971). Excerpts from major reviews are quoted in the entry on Zolla in Book Review Digest (1974):1351. See Also Vine Deloria Jr., "Images of the Indian", Boston Sunday Herald Advertiser (March 2, 1974); Guy Davenport, The Geography of Imagination (!981): 335-358; Peter Nabokov, "Return of the Native", New York Review of Books 31 (September 27,1984); and Ioan P. Culianu, "The Construction of the Other", History of Religions 30, no.3 (1991): 308-311: In Cesare Médail's Le piccole porte, translated as Small Doors (Milan 2004),

Zolla's spiritual quest is closely examined in comparison with the ones of Mircea Eliade, Tenzin Gyatzso, XIVth Dalai lama, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Raimon Panikkar.

Marchianò's, Il conoscitore di segreti (Rizzoli, Milan 2006, on the way to be reprinted with A.I.R.E.Z. publications 2012) provides an insightful account of a man of high intellectual and spiritual rank, whose legacy demands being treasured by kindred spirits committed to explore the multiple dimensions of mind and the cosmos.