Books

  1. V. Finucci. The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance.  Duke University Press, 321 pp, 2003.
  2. V. Finucci. The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto.  Stanford University Press, 329 pp, 1992.

Edited Volumes

  1. 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.
  2. V. Finucci, ed. Floridoro, a Chivalric Romance by Moderata Fonte. University of Chicago Press, 2006: 493pp.
  3. V. Finucci, ed. Petrarca, canoni, esemplarità. Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2006: 361pp.
  4. V. Finucci, ed and trans. Urania by Giulia Bigolina. University of Chicago Press, 2005: 192pp.
  5. V. Finucci, ed. Urania di Giulia Bigolina (ca. 1554). Rome: Bulzoni Editore, 2002: 198 pp.
  6. 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.
  7. V. Finucci, ed. Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso. Duke University Press, 1999: 328 pp.
  8. V. Finucci, ed. Tredici canti del Floridoro di Moderata Fonte (1581). Modena: Mucchi, 1995: 232 pp.
  9. V. Finucci and R. Schwartz, eds. Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature. Princeton University Press, 1994: 277 pp.

Special Issues

  1. V. Finucci and D. Aers, eds, Open Topic. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 38:2 (Spring 2008).
  2. V. Finucci and D. Aers, eds, Open Topic. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37.2 (Spring 2007).
  3. V. Finucci, ed, Mapping the Mediterranean. A Special Issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37:1 (Winter 2007).
  4. V. Finucci, and A. Wharton, eds, Open Topic. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 36:2 (Spring 2006).
  5. 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).
  6. V. Finucci and A. Wharton, eds, Open Topic. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 35:2 (Spring 2005).
  7. V. Finucci and K. Brownlee, ed, Transgressive Genealogies. A Special Cluster of Exemplaria 9:1 (1997).

Articles in a Journal

  1. "'There 's the Rub': Searching for Sexual Remedies in the New World." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 38:3 (forthcoming, 2008): 523-57.
  2. "Devianza sessuale e imperativi genealogici: Il caso di Margherita Gonzaga." Acta Istriae 15:2 (2007): 385-98.
  3. "In the Footsteps of Petrarch." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 35:3 (2005): 457-66.
  4. "In the Name of the Brother: Male Rivalry and Social Order in B. Castiglione's Il libro del cortegiano." Exemplaria 9:1 (1997): 91-116.
  5. with K. Brownlee. "Genealogy and Transgression." Exemplaria 9:1 (1997): 1-5.
  6. "La scrittura epico-cavalleresca al femminile: Moderata Fonte e Tredici canti del Floridoro." Annali d'Italianistica 12 (1994): 203-31.
  7. "Jokes on Women: Triangular Pleasures in Castiglione and Freud." Exemplaria 4:1 (1992): 51-77.
  8. "La scrittura femminile. Considerazioni in margine alla lettura di Le stanze ritrovate." Annali d'Italianistica 9 (1991): 322-29.
  9. "La donna di corte: discorso istituzionale e realta' ne Il libro del cortegiano." Annali d'Italianistica 7 (1989): 88-103.
  10. "The Textualization of a Female "I": E. Morante's Menzogna e sortilegio." Italica 65:4 (1988): 308-28.
  11. "Remembering the "I": Faà Gonzaga's Storia." Italian Quarterly 28 (1987): 21-32.
  12. "A Portrait of the Artist as a Female Painter: The Kunstlerroman Tradition in A. Banti's Artemisia." Quadermi d'Italianistica 8:2 (1987): 167-93.
  13. "Between Acquescence and Madness: Neera's Teresa." Stanford Italian Review 7:1-2 (1987): 217-39.
  14. "Dislocation and Dehumanization in a War Novel": Moravia's La Ciociara." Canadian Journal of Italian Studies 10 (1987): 43-58.
  15. "Alienazione individuale e linguaggio ambientale in Neera." Misure critiche 55-57 (1986): 65-79.

Articles in a Collection

  1.  "Intellectual Tourism in Late Sixteenth-Century Italy: Costume and Manners in Venice and Padua // Turismo intellettuale nel tardo Cinquecento in Italia: Costumi e vita a Venezia e Padova." Mores Italiae: Costume and Life in the Renaissance // Costumi e scene di vita del Rinascimento. Ed. M. Rippa Bonati and V. Finucci. Bilingual Edition, Padua: Biblos, 2007, 36-77.
  2.  "The Virgin's Body and Early Modern Surgeons." Masculinities, Children and Violence: Attending to Early Modern Women--and Men Ed. Adele Seeff and Joan Hartman. London: Associated University Presses, forthcoming, 2008.
  3.  "'Remember Me!' Petrarca." Petrarca: Canoni, Esemplarita' Ed. V. Finucci. Rome: Bulzoni, 2006.
  4.  "Isabella Canali Andreini." Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies Ed. G. Marrone. New York: Routledge, 2006.
  5.  "Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo)." Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies Ed. G. Marrone. New York: Routledge, 2006.
  6.  "When the Mirror Lies: Sisterhood Reconsidered in Moderata Fonte's Thirteen Cantos of Floridoro." Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern World. Ed. Naomi Miller and Naomi Yavneh. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006, 116-28.
  7.  "Galileo, la polizia del costume e i piaceri del ritorno alla natura." Contro il portar la toga. Ed. Lucia Tongiorgi Tomasi. Pisa: ETS, 2005.
  8.  "La verginita'  contestata: Fabrici d'Acquapendente e il Gran Turco." Il teatro dei corpi: "Le pitture colorate d'anatomia" di Fabrici d'Acquapendente Ed. Maurizio Rippa Bonati and Pepe Pardo. Milano: Media Med, 2004, 170-91.
  9.  "Maternal Imagination and the Monstrous Child in Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata." Generation and Degeneration. Ed. V. Finucci and K. Brownlee. Duke University Press, Spring, 2001, 41-77.
  10.  "Genealogical Pleasures, Genealogical Disruptions." Generation and Degeneration Ed. V. Finucci and K. Brownlee. Spring, 2001, 1-14.
  11.  "The Masquerade of Masculinity: Astolfo and Jocondo in Orlando Furioso, 28." Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso. Ed. V. Finucci. Duke University Press, 1999, 215-45.
  12.  "Ariosto, Tasso, and Storytelling." Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso. Ed. V. Finucci. Duke University Press, 1999, 1-13.
  13.  "L'educazione dei fratelli: legge del padre e sua riscrittura nel Libro del cortegiano." Educare il corpo, educare la parola nella trattatistica del Rinascimento. Ed. G. Patrizi and A. Quondam. Rome: Bulzoni, 1998, 367-91.
  14.  "The Female Masquerade: Ariosto and the Game of Desire." Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature Ed. V. Finucci and R. Schwartz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, 61-88.
  15. with G. Schwartz. "Worlds Within and Without." Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature Ed. V. Finucci and G. Schwartz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994, 3-15.
  16.  "The Italian Memorialist: C. Faa' Gonzaga." Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century Ed. K. Wilson. University of Georgia Press, 1989, 121-28.

Book Reviews

  1. Marion Wells, "The Secret Wound: Love Melancholy and Early Modern Romance". Renassaince Quarterly 61 (2008): 618-20.
  2. Jo Ann Cavallo, "The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso: From Public Duty to Private Place". Renaissance and Reformation 41 (2005): 116-18.
  3. Domenico Zanre', "Cultural Non-Conformity in Early Modern Florence". Renaissance Quarterly 58.1  (2005): 192-93.
  4. Robert Henke, "Performance and Literature in the Commedia dell'Arte". Shakespeare Quarterly 32 (2004): 382-86.
  5. Ronnie Ferguson, "The Theatre of Angelo Beolco (Ruzante)". Rivista di Studi Italiani 20 (2002): 517-19.
  6. Armando Maggi, "Identita'  e impresa rinascimentale". MLN 116:1 (2001): 198-200.
  7. Moderata Fonte, "The Worth of Women ed. by Virginia Cox". Annali d'Italianistica 18 (2000): 493-95.
  8. Laura Benedetti et al., "Gendered Contexts: New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies". MLN 113:1 (1998): 250-52.
  9. Lina Bolzoni, "La stanza della memoria. Modelli letterari e iconografici nell'età della stampa". MLN 112:1 (1997): 117-19.

Translation in a Collection

  1. V. Finucci, trans. The Story of Donna Camilla Faa' of Bruno Gonzaga. Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century. Ed. K. Wilson. University of Georgia Press, 1989