Guido Ruggiero
American historian
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Guido Ruggiero is a preeminent historian of the history of Italy, from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries. He is Professor of History and Cooper Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami, Emeritus. A master of Italian archival repositories, his work has forged new paths in the historical analysis of gender, sex, crime, violence, magic, science, and everyday life and culture. His later works also exemplify the fruits of combining the discipline of literary analysis with history. Ruggiero is one of the most prolific and groundbreaking scholars in his field. His monographs include Violence in Early Renaissance Venice , The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice , Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage and Power from the End of the Renaissance , Machiavelli in Love: Sex, Self and Society in Renaissance Italy , The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento , Love and Sex in a Time of Plague: A Decameron Renaissance . In addition to his own single-authored books, Ruggiero has edited with James Farr Historicizing Life-Writing and Egodocuments in Early Modern Europe ; co-edited and translated with Laura Giannetti Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance and edited The Blackwell Companion to the Renaissance . He served as both series editor for Studies in the History of Sexuality for Oxford University Press and co-editor of the six-volume Encyclopedia of European Social History for Scribner’s . With Edward Muir, Ruggiero edited select articles from the Italian journal Quaderni Storici, making them accessible to English-speaking audiences in Sex and Gender in Historical Perspectives , Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe , and History from Crime . Ruggiero has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and academic awards of distinction. Among them are the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Robert Lehman Visiting Professor in Residence at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti in Florence, the Rome Scholar in Residence at the American Academy in Rome, and membership in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
Guido Ruggiero's Published Works
Published Works
- The history of European liberalism (128)
- The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice (1986) (85)
- Microhistory and the lost peoples of Europe (1993) (65)
- Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage, and Power at the End of the Renaissance (1993) (65)
- Violence in Early Renaissance Venice (1982) (48)
- History from Crime (1994) (38)
- Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective (1990) (27)
- The Renaissance in Italy: A Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento (2014) (24)
- A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance (2004) (22)
- A History of Their Own: Women in Europe from Prehistory to the Present.Bonnie S. Anderson , Judith P. Zinsser (1990) (15)
- The Sacred Home in Renaissance Italy (2019) (14)
- The Jews of Europe and the Inquisition of Venice, 1550-1670.Brian Pullan (1985) (13)
- Sexual Criminality in the Early Renaissance: Venice 1338–1358 (1975) (12)
- Machiavelli in Love: Sex, Self, and Society in the Italian Renaissance (2007) (12)
- Law and Punishment in Early Renaissance Venice (1978) (10)
- The status of physicians and surgeons in renaissance Venice. (1981) (10)
- Excusable Murder: Insanity and Reason in Early Renaissance Venice (1982) (10)
- The cooperation of physicians and the State in the control of violence in Renaissance Venice. (1978) (9)
- Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence. Gene Brucker (1987) (8)
- Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance (2006) (8)
- Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective: Selections from Quaderni Storici (1990) (6)
- The Close of the Nineteenth Century (2019) (6)
- The Renaissance in Italy (2015) (5)
- Modernization and the Mythic State in Early Renaissance Venice: The Serrata Revisited (1979) (4)
- A Cultural History of Humour: From Antiquity to the Present Day. Edited by Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1977. xii plus 264pp.) (1999) (3)
- Introduction: Renaissance Dreaming: in Search of a Paradigm (2007) (2)
- Machiavelli in Love (2010) (2)
- Introduction: hunting for birds in the Italian Renaissance (2017) (1)
- [Recensione a:] TURBEVILLE A. S., The House of Lords in the XVIII Century. (1)
- Getting a Head in the Renaissance: Mementos of Lost Love in Boccaccio and Beyond* (2014) (1)
- The Lord Who Rejected Love, or The Griselda Story (X, 10) Reconsidered Yet Again (2019) (1)
- Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence. Thomas Kuehn (2004) (1)
- [Recensione a:] BARKER E., National Character and the factors in its formation. (2008) (0)
- Venetian Humanism in an Age of Patrician Dominance. By Margaret L. King (Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1986. xxi plus 524 pp.) (1988) (0)
- The Philosophy of Action and Modernism (2019) (0)
- RQX volume 47 issue 1 Cover and Back matter (1994) (0)
- Civiltà d'un Congresso (1989) (0)
- Contesting the Renaissance, by William Caferro (2012) (0)
- The Renaissance in Italy: Retreat: The Great Social Divide and the End of the Rinascimento (c. 1525–c. 1575) (2014) (0)
- Passion and Power: Sexuality in History. Edited by Kathy Peiss and Christina Simmons, with Robert A. Padgug (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Temple University Press, 1989. 319 pp.) (1991) (0)
- The Renaissance in Italy: Self: The Individual as a Work of Art (c. 1425–c. 1525) (2014) (0)
- Book Reviews (2009) (0)
- Re-Dreams: Virtù, Saving the Rinascimento, and the Satyr in the Garden (c. 1500–c. 1560) (2014) (0)
- Discovery: Finding the Old in the New (c. 1450–c. 1560) (2014) (0)
- Courts: Princes, Aristocrats, and Quiet Glory (c. 1425–c. 1500) (2014) (0)
- Love and Sex in the Time of Plague (2021) (0)
- Witchcraft and Magic (2007) (0)
- The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy (review) (2006) (0)
- Civiltà d'un Congresso (1989) (0)
- Science and Metaphysics (2019) (0)
- The Renaissance in Italy: Imagination: The Shared Primary Culture of the Early Rinascimento (c. 1350–c. 1475) (2014) (0)
- [Recensione a:] BURDACH K., Reformation, Renaissance, Humanismus. (2008) (0)
- Psychology and Philosophy (2019) (0)
- Introduction: Historicizing Life-Writing and Egodocuments in Early Modern Europe (2022) (0)
- Daily Life in Renaissance Italy (review) (2003) (0)
- The Fear of Hell: Images of Damnation and Salvation in Early Modern Europe.Piero Camporesi (1995) (0)
- Antimetaphysic and Naturalism (2019) (0)
- [Recensione a:] CRUMP-JACOB. The Legacy of the Middle Age. (2008) (0)
- [Recensione a:] ROTHSCHILD R., Paradoxy. The destiny of modern Thought (2008) (0)
- [Recensione a:] DE MADARIAGA S., Englishmen Frenchmen Spaniars (an essay in comparative psychology). (2008) (0)
- From Kant to Absolute Positivism (2019) (0)
- Empiricism and Naturalism (2019) (0)
- The Renaissance in Italy: Bibliography: A Short List of Works Used (2014) (0)
- Women of the Renaissance.Margaret L. King (1993) (0)
- [Recensione a:] KAY WALLACE W., The trend of history ; The passing of politics. (2008) (0)
- Provincial Families of the Renaissance: Private and Public Life in the Veneto.James S. Grubb (1998) (0)
- A woman as savior: Alibech and the last age of the flesh in Boccaccio's Decameron (2009) (0)
- The Metaphysic of Empiricism and its Self-Annihilation (2019) (0)
- Richard Palmer. The Studio of Venice and Its Graduates in the Sixteenth Century. (Contributi alla Storia dell'Universitàa di Padova, number 12.) Padua: Lint. 1983. Pp. 204. L. 20,000 (1986) (0)
- Violence: Social Conflict and the Italian Hundred Years’ War (c. 1350–1454) (2014) (0)
- Plague: Death, Disaster, and the Rinascita of Civiltà (c. 1325–c. 1425) (2014) (0)
- Reviews (2010) (0)
- Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice. By Edward Muir (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981. XIV + 356 pp. $17.50) (1983) (0)
- The Renaissance in Italy: Introduction: The End of the World and Its Rebirth ( Rinascita ) as the Rinascimento (2014) (0)
- [Recensione a:] Megaro G., Vittorio Alfieri forerunner of Italian Nationalism (2008) (0)
- The Renaissance in Italy: Reform: Spiritual Enthusiasms, Discipline, and a Church Militant (c. 1500–c. 1575) (2014) (0)
- Pastoral Economics in the Kingdom of Naples.John A. Marino (1990) (0)
- The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy. By George W. McClure (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2004) 373 pp. $65.00 (2006) (0)
- Piero di Lorenzo de’ Medici and the Crisis of Renaissance Italy. Alison Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. xiv + 338 pp. $120. (2021) (0)
- [Recensione a:] CARLYLE R. W. and A. J., A history of medieval political theory in the West. (2008) (0)
- [Recensione a:] MURRAY R.H., Studies in the English social and political thinkers of the Nineteenth Century : vol. I, From Malthus to Kingsley ; vol.II, Herbert Spencer to Ramsay Mac Donald. (2008) (0)
- The Renaissance in Italy: Legitimacy: A Crisis and a Promise (c. 1250–c. 1340) (2014) (0)
- [Recensione a:] WILDON CARR H., The unique status of man. (2008) (0)
- How To Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians (review) (2000) (0)
- Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity through Early Modern Europe. Valeria Finucci , Kevin Browlee (2003) (0)
- Carter John Marshall. Rape in Medieval England: An Historical and Sociological Study. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. 1985. Pp. x, 185. $22.50 cloth, $11.00 paper. (1985) (0)
- Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi. Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe. (Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology.) Cambridge: Mit Press. 1999. Pp. xi, 426. $50.00 (2001) (0)
- From Bishop to Witch: The System of the Sacred in Early Modern Terra d'Otranto. By David Gentilcore (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992. x plus 292 pp.) (1994) (0)
- Civiltà: Living and Thinking the City (c. 1300–c. 1375) (2014) (0)
- Ganymede in the Renaissance: Homosexuality in Art and Society.James M. Saslow (1987) (0)
- [Recensione a:] The drift of civilisation (by the contributors to the fiftieth anniversary number of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch). (2008) (0)
- Epilogue: The Diaspora of the Rinascimento (2014) (0)
- Forgetting the Italian Renaissance and Other Irreverent Suggestions for the Future (2019) (0)
- [Recensione a:] ROSTOUZEFF M., A history of the ancient world. I. The Orient and Greece; II. Rome - The social and economic history of the Roman Empire. (2008) (0)
- From Eclecticism to the Philosophy of Liberty (2019) (0)
- Wayfarers in Wonderland: The Sexual Worlds of Renaissance Venice Revisited (2013) (0)
- Positivism and Platonism (2019) (0)
- Death and Property in Siena, 1205–1800. By Samuel K. Cohn, Jr. (Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988. xvii plus 330 pp. $39.50) (1990) (0)
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