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Publications of Valeria Finucci    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. Canalis, RF; Ciavolella, M; Finucci, V, Rethinking Medical Humanities: Perspectives from the Arts and the Social Sciences (December, 2022), pp. 1-417, ISBN 9783110788006 [doi]  [abs]
  2. Andreini, I, Mirtilla, A Pastoral. A Bilingual Edition., edited by Finucci, V, vol. 62 (February, 2018), ISBN 9780866985888 (translated by Kisacky, J.)  [abs]
  3. Finucci, V, The Prince’s Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine (2012), Harvard University Press, ca. 300pp.
  4. Negri, VM, Celinda A Tragedy (2010), pp. 415 pages, Acmrs Publications, ISBN 9780772720757  [abs]
  5. Finucci, V, The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance (2003), Duke University Press: 321pp
  6. Finucci, V, The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto (1992), Stanford University Press: 329pp

Book in Progress

  1. V. Finucci, Celinda di Valeria Miani, Edizione critica (in progress), La Finestra Editrice

Edited Volumes

  1. V. Finucci and M. Rippa-Bonati, eds, Usi e costumi nella Venezia del Cinquecento (2015: 143pp), Biblos Edizioni (Italian version of Mores Italiae.)
  2. V. Finucci and K. Brownlee, eds, Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe (2001), Duke University Press: 327pp

Special Issues

  1. V. Finucci, "Vesalius and the Languages of Anatomy" Special Issue Editor, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies,, vol. 48 no. 1 (Winter 2018, forthcoming)
  2. V. Finucci and D. Aers, Open Topic, edited by Valeria Finucci, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 45 no. 2 (2015)
  3. V. Finucci, Through Death The Politics of the Corpse. Special Issue editor, edited by Valeria Finucci, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 45 no. 1 (2015)
  4. V. Finucci and D. Aers, Open Topic, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 44 no. 2 (2014)
  5. Finucci, V; Aers, D, Open Topic, edited by Finucci, V, In Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 43 no. 2 (2012)
  6. Finucci, V, Celinda, A Tragedy by Valeria Miani (2010), pp. 415pp-415pp, Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (Bilingual edition.)
  7. Finucci, V; Aers, D, Open Topic, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 39.2 (2009)
  8. Finucci, V; Aers, D, Open Topic, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 40.2 (2009)
  9. Finucci, V; Aers, D, Open Topic, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 41.2 (2009)
  10. Finucci, V; Aers, D, Open Topic, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 42.2 (2009)
  11. Finucci, V; Aers, D, Open Topic, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 38 no. 2 (2008)
  12. Finucci, V; ed, , Mapping the Mediterranean, A Special Issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 37 no. 1 (2007)
  13. Finucci, V; Aers, D, Open Topic, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 37.2 (2007)
  14. Finucci, V; Bonati, MR, Mores Italiae: Costume and Life in the Renaissance // Costumi e scene di vita del Rinascimento (Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 457) (2007), Bilingual Edition (English/Italian). Padua: Biblos: 232pp
  15. Finucci, V; ed, , Floridoro, a Chivalric Romance by Moderata Fonte (2006), University of Chicago Press: 493pp
  16. Finucci, V; ed, , Petrarca, canoni, esemplarit (2006), Rome: Bulzoni Editore: 361pp
  17. Finucci, V; Wharton, A, Open Topic, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 35 no. 2 (2005)
  18. Finucci, V; ed, , In the Footsteps of Petrarch: Literature, Art, Music, Culture, A Special Issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 35 no. 3 (2005)
  19. Finucci, V; Wharton, A, Open Topic, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 36 no. 2 (2005)
  20. Finucci, V; ed, ; trans, , Urania by Giulia Bigolina (2005), University of Chicago Press: 192pp
  21. Finucci, V; ed, , Urania di Giulia Bigolina (ca. 1554) (2002), Rome: Bulzoni Editore: 198pp
  22. Finucci, V; ed, , Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso (1999), Duke University Press: 328pp
  23. Finucci, V; Brownlee, K; ed, , Transgressive Genealogies, A Special Cluster of Exemplaria, vol. 9 no. 1 (1997)
  24. Finucci, V; ed, , Tredici canti del Floridoro di Moderata Fonte (1581) (1995), Modena: Mucchi: 232pp
  25. Finucci, V; Schwartz, R, Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature (1994), Princeton University Press: 277pp

Book Reviews

  1. Laura Benedetti et al., Gendered Contexts: New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies, MLN, vol. 113 no. 1 (1998), pp. 250-52

Articles in a Journal

  1. Finucci, V, :Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy, The Journal of Modern History, vol. 95 no. 2 (June, 2023), pp. 482-484, University of Chicago Press [doi]
  2. Finucci, V, A royal accident: Medical authority and political dynamics in 1559, I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance, vol. 24 no. 1 (March, 2021), pp. 41-65 [doi]
  3. Finucci, V, Pious Postmortems: Anatomy, Sanctity and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe. By Bradford A. Bouley. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 214 pp. $55.00 hardcover., Church History, vol. 87 no. 2 (June, 2018), pp. 567-569, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]
  4. Finucci, V, Vesalius and the languages of anatomy, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 48 no. 1 (January, 2018), pp. 1-9, Duke University Press [doi]
  5. Finucci, V, When the mirror lies: Sisterhood reconsidered in Moderata Fonte's thirteen Cantos of Floridoro, in Sibling Relations and Gender in the Early Modern World., edited by Miller, N; Yavneh, N (May, 2017), pp. 116-128, Aldershot: Ashgate
  6. Finucci, V, Thinking through death: The politics of the corpse, edited by Valeria Finucci, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 45 no. 1 (January, 2015), pp. 1-6, Duke University Press [doi]
  7. Finucci, V, Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy., RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION, vol. 38 no. 4 (2015), pp. 221-224
  8. Finucci, V, The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe: A Cultural History. By Patricia Simons (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. xv plus 327 pp. $99.00), Journal of Social History, vol. 48 no. 1 (September, 2014), pp. 201-203, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]
  9. Finucci, V, The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini by Rebecca Messbarger (review), MLN, vol. 129 no. 1 (January, 2014), pp. 194-196, Project MUSE, ISSN 0026-7910 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  10. Finucci, V, Kissing the Wild Woman: Concepts of Art, Beauty, and the Italian Prose Romance in Giulia Bigolina's Urania, EARLY MODERN WOMEN-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL, vol. 9 no. 1 (2014), pp. 197-200
  11. Nissen, C, Kissing the Wild Woman, Early Modern Women Journal, vol. 9 no. 1 (2013), pp. 197-200
  12. Simons, P, The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe, Journal of Social History, vol. 48 no. 1 (2012), pp. 2013-14
  13. Finucci, V, Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy, AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, vol. 116 no. 3 (June, 2011), pp. 890-891, ISSN 0002-8762 [Gateway.cgi]
  14. Finucci, V, The Virgins Body and Early Modern Surgeons, in Masculinities, Childhood, Violence: Attending to Early Modern Women--and Men (2011), pp. 195-221, University of Delaware Press
  15. Grendler, P, The University of Mantua: The Gonzaga & the Jesuits, 1584-1630, Annali d’Italianistica, vol. 28 (2010), pp. 472-74
  16. Finucci, V, “La Italia de los últimos años del siglo XVI en el álbum ilustrado de estudiantes extranjero”, Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanísticos y Literatura / International Journal of Humanistic Studies and Literature, vol. Fall (2010), pp. 11-18
  17. Finucci, V, La Italia de los ltimos aos del siglo XVI en el lbum ilustrado de estudiantes extranjero, Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Human�sticos y Literatura / International Journal of Humanistic Studies and Literature, vol. Fall (2010), pp. 11-18
  18. Jaffe, I; Colombardo, G, Zelotti’s Epic Frescoes at Cataio: the Obizzi Saga, Annali d’Italianistica, vol. 27 (2009), pp. 457-59
  19. Finucci, V, "There's the rub": Searching for sexual remedies in the New World, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 38 no. 3 (December, 2008), pp. 523-557, Duke University Press, ISSN 1082-9636 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  20. Finucci, V, Marion Wells. The Secret Wound: Love/Melancholy and Early Modern Romance. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. xii + 368. index. bibl. $60. ISBN: 978-0-8047-5046-2., Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 61 no. 2 (2008), pp. 618-620, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi]
  21. Finucci, V, 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, in Mores Italiae: Costume and Life in the Renaissance // Costumi e scene di vita del Rinascimento., edited by Bonati, MR; Finucci, V (2007), pp. 36-77, Bilingual Edition, Padua: Biblos
  22. Valeria Finucci, , Devianza sessuale e imperativi genealogici: Il caso di Margherita Gonzaga, Acta Istriae, vol. 15 no. 2 (2007), pp. 385-398
  23. Pugliese, O, Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier (Il libro del cortegiano): A Classic in the Making, Rivista di Studi Italiani, vol. 25 (2007), pp. 299-302
  24. Finucci, V, :Cultural Non-Conformity in Early Modern Florence, Renaissance Quarterly, vol. 58 no. 1 (Spring, 2005), pp. 192-193, ISSN 0034-4338 [doi]
  25. Finucci, V, In the footsteps of Petrarch, Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies, vol. 35 no. 3 (January, 2005), pp. 457-466, Duke University Press, ISSN 1082-9636 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  26. Finucci, V, ’Remember Me!’ Petrarca, in Petrarca: Canoni, Esemplarita', edited by Finucci, V (2005), Rome: Bulzoni
  27. Henke, R, Performance and Literature in the Commedia dell’Arte, Shakespeare Quarterly, vol. 32 (2004), pp. 382-86
  28. Finucci, V, La verginita’ contestata: Fabrici d’Acquapendente e il Gran Turco, in Il teatro dei corpi: "Le pitture colorate d'anatomia" di Fabrici d'Acquapendente., edited by Bonati, MR; Pardo, P (2004), pp. 170-91, Milano: Media Med
  29. Finucci, V, Galileo, la polizia del costume e i piaceri del ritorno alla natura, in Contro il portar la toga., edited by Tomasi, LT (2004), Pisa: ETS
  30. Finucci, V, Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo), in Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, edited by Marrone, G (2004), New York: Routledge
  31. Finucci, V, Isabella Canali Andreini, in Encyclopedia of Italian Literary Studies, edited by Marrone, G (2004), New York: Routledge
  32. Finucci, V, The romance epics of Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso: From public duty to private place., RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION, vol. 27 no. 4 (2003), pp. 116-118, ISSN 0034-429X [Gateway.cgi]
  33. Ferguson, R, The Theatre of Angelo Beolco (Ruzante), Rivista di Studi Italiani, vol. 20 (2002), pp. 517-19
  34. Bolzoni, L, La stanza della memoria. Modelli letterari e iconografici nell’et della stampa, MLN, vol. 112 no. 1 (2001), pp. 117-19
  35. Fonte, M, The Worth of Women ed. by Virginia Cox, Annali d’Italianistica, vol. 18 (2001), pp. 493-95
  36. Maggi, A, Identita’ e impresa rinascimentale, MLN, vol. 116 no. 1 (2001), pp. 198-200
  37. Finucci, V, Genealogical Pleasures, Genealogical Disruptions, in Generation and Degeneration, edited by Finucci, V; Brownlee, K (Spring, 2001), pp. 1-14
  38. Finucci, V, Maternal Imagination and the Monstrous Child in Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata, in Generation and Degeneration., edited by Finucci, V; Brownlee, K (Spring, 2001), pp. 41-77, Duke University Press
  39. Finucci, V, Ariosto, Tasso, and Storytelling, in Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso., edited by Finucci, V (1999), pp. 1-13, Duke University Press
  40. Finucci, V, The Masquerade of Masculinity: Astolfo and Jocondo in Orlando Furioso, 28, in Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso., edited by Finucci, V (1999), pp. 215-45, Duke University Press
  41. Finucci, V, Book Review: Gendered Contexts: New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies, MLN, vol. 113 no. 1 (January, 1998), pp. 250-252 [doi]
  42. Finucci, V, L’educazione dei fratelli: legge del padre e sua riscrittura nel Libro del cortegiano, in Educare il corpo, educare la parola nella trattatistica del Rinascimento., edited by Patrizi, G; Quondam, A (1998), pp. 367-91, Rome: Bulzoni
  43. Finucci, V; Brownlee, K, Genealogy and transgression: An introduction, International Journal of Phytoremediation, vol. 21 no. 1 (January, 1997), pp. 1-5 [doi]
  44. Finucci, V, In the name of the brother: Male rivalry and social order in baldassarre castiglione's il libro del cortegiano, International Journal of Phytoremediation, vol. 21 no. 1 (January, 1997), pp. 91-116 [doi]  [abs]
  45. Valeria Finucci, ; Brownlee, K, Genealogy and Transgression, Exemplaria, vol. 9 no. 1 (1997), pp. 1-5
  46. Valeria Finucci, , In the Name of the Brother: Male Rivalry and Social Order in B. Castiglione's Il libro del cortegiano, Exemplaria, vol. 9 no. 1 (1997), pp. 91-116
  47. Finucci, V, The Female Masquerade: Ariosto and the Game of Desire, in Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature, edited by Finucci, V; Schwartz, R (1995), pp. 61-88, Princeton: Princeton University Press
  48. Finucci, V, The Italian Memorialist: C. Faa’ Gonzaga, in Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century, edited by Wilson, K (1994), pp. 121-28, University of Georgia Press
  49. Schwartz, G, Worlds Within and Without, in Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature, edited by Finucci, V; Schwartz, G (1994), pp. 3-15, Princeton: Princeton University Press
  50. Valeria Finucci, , Alienazione individuale e linguaggio ambientale in Neera, Misure critiche, vol. 55-57 (1994), pp. 65-79
  51. Valeria Finucci, , Dislocation and Dehumanization in a War Novel": Moravia's La Ciociara, Canadian Journal of Italian Studies, vol. 10 (1994), pp. 43-58
  52. Valeria Finucci, , La donna di corte: discorso istituzionale e realta' ne Il libro del cortegiano, Annali d'Italianistica, vol. 7 (1994), pp. 88-103
  53. Valeria Finucci, , La scrittura femminile. Considerazioni in margine alla lettura di Le stanze ritrovate, Annali d'Italianistica, vol. 9 (1994), pp. 322-329
  54. Valeria Finucci, , Jokes on Women: Triangular Pleasures in Castiglione and Freud, Exemplaria, vol. 4 no. 1 (1994), pp. 51-77, Informa UK Limited [doi]
  55. Valeria Finucci, , La scrittura epico-cavalleresca al femminile: Moderata Fonte e Tredici canti del Floridoro, Annali d'Italianistica, vol. 12 (1994), pp. 203-231
  56. Finucci, V; Javitch, D, Proclaiming a Classic. The Canonization of the "Orlando Furioso", Italica, vol. 69 no. 2 (1992), pp. 249-249, University of Illinois Press [doi]
  57. Finucci, V, The Textualization of a Female 'I': Elsa Morante's Menzogna e Sortilegio, Italica, vol. 65 no. 4 (1988), pp. 308-308, University of Illinois Press, ISSN 0021-3020 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  58. FINUCCI, V, BETWEEN ACQUIESCENCE AND MADNESS, NEERA 'TERESA', STANFORD ITALIAN REVIEW, vol. 7 no. 1-2 (1987), pp. 217-239, ISSN 0730-6857 [Gateway.cgi]
  59. FINUCCI, V, A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A FEMALE PAINTER, THE KUNSTLERROMAN TRADITION IN BANTI,A. 'ARTEMISIA', QUADERNI D ITALIANISTICA, vol. 8 no. 2 (1987), pp. 167-193, ISSN 0226-8043 [Gateway.cgi]
  60. FINUCCI, V, RE-MEMBERING THE I, FAAGONZAGA 'STORIA' (1622), ITALIAN QUARTERLY, vol. 28 no. 107 (1987), pp. 21-32, ISSN 0021-2954 [Gateway.cgi]

Translation in a Collection

  1. Finucci, V, The bio-turn in history writing: Death, last wishes, and lasting wishes, in Rethinking Medical Humanities: Perspectives from the Arts and the Social Sciences (December, 2022), pp. 213-226, ISBN 9783110788006 [doi]
  2. Canalis, RF; Ciavolella, M; Finucci, V, Rethinking medical humanities, in Rethinking Medical Humanities: Perspectives from the Arts and the Social Sciences (December, 2022), pp. 3-14, ISBN 9783110788006 [doi]
  3. Finucci, V, The Story of Donna Camilla Faa’ of Bruno Gonzaga, in Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century, edited by Wilson, K (2007), University of Georgia Press