| Valeria Finucci received a "Laurea" summa cum laude from the University of Rome and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her main interests are Renaissance literature and culture, theater, women's work, early modern medicine and pharmacy, psychoanalysis, and genre studies. And she loves everything connected to Venice. She has written on femininity and power in Renaissance discourses in The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto (Stanford, 1992) and on issues of masculinity and paternity in The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance (Duke, 2003). She is the editor of Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso (Duke, 1999); and co-editor of Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature (Princeton, 1994) and of Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History (Duke, 2001). Building on her interest in genre and gender study, she has edited a 16th century female verse epic, Moderata Fonte's Tredici canti del Floridoro (Mucchi, 1995); now in English too as Floridoro, a Chivalric Romance (U. of Chicago P., 2006); has brought out the manuscript of the only female prose romance of the Italian Renaissance, Giulia Bigolina's Urania (Bulzoni, 2002), which she then translated in English and published as Urania, a Romance (U of Chicago P, 2005); and has worked on the genre of early modern female tragedy with her edition of Valeria Miani's Celinda, a Tragedy, the first tragedy by a woman writer in Italian (Toronto: CMRS, forthcoming, 2010). She is co-editor of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies and has also edited two special issues of the journal: In the Footsteps of Petrarch (Fall 2005) and Mapping the Mediterranean (Winter 2007). Petrarch is also the subject of her collection, Petrarca: Canoni, Esemplarità (Bulzoni, 2006). Recently, her love of Venetian costume books and alba amicorum has resulted in a co-edited book in English and Italian, Mores Italiae: Costume and Life in the Renaissance // Costumi e scene di vita del Rinascimento (Biblos, 2007). Education:
- PhD in Comparative Literature University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1983
- MA in Comparative Literature University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1977
- Advanced Certificate Mount Hoyoke College, 1976
- Laurea in Modern Languages and Literature, summa cum laude, University of Rome, 1974
Research Interests:
Renaissance epic, romance, treatise and theater; women writers, medical and literary understandings of the body, Venetian culture, Renaissance fashion, medicine in early modern Italy, New World's pharmacy, and psychoanalysis. Representative Publications (More Publications)
- V. Finucci, ed. Celinda, A Tragedy by Valeria Miani. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, forthcoming, 2010. (bilingual edition--English and Italian)
- V. Finucci and M. Rippa Bonati, eds. Mores Italiae: Costume and Life in the Renaissance // Costumi e scene di vita del Rinascimento (Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 457). Bilingual Edition. Padua: Biblos, 2007: 232pp.
- V. Finucci, ed, Mapping the Mediterranean. A Special Issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37:1 (Winter 2007).
- V. Finucci, ed. Floridoro, a Chivalric Romance by Moderata Fonte. University of Chicago Press, 2006: 493pp.
- V. Finucci, ed. Petrarca, canoni, esemplarità. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2006: 361pp.
- V. Finucci, ed and trans. Urania by Giulia Bigolina. University of Chicago Press, 2005: 192pp.
- V. Finucci, ed, In the Footsteps of Petrarch: Literature, Art, Music, Culture. A Special Issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 35:3 (Fall 2005).
- V. Finucci. The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance. Duke University Press, 321 pp, 2003.
- V. Finucci, ed. Urania di Giulia Bigolina (ca. 1554). Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2002: 198 pp.
- V. Finucci and K. Brownlee, eds. Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe. Duke University Press, 2001: 327 pp.
- V. Finucci, ed. Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso. Duke University Press, 1999: 328 pp.
- V. Finucci, ed. Tredici canti del Floridoro di Moderata Fonte (1581). Modena: Mucchi, 1995: 232 pp.
- V. Finucci and R. Schwartz, eds. Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature. Princeton University Press, 1994: 277 pp.
- V. Finucci. The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto. Stanford University Press, 329 pp, 1992.
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