Valeria Finucci | Scholars@Duke

Valeria Finucci
Professor of Romance Studies

Renaissance theater, epic, romance, and treatise; women writers, medical and literary understandings of the body, Venetian culture, Renaissance fashion, medicine in early modern Italy, New World's pharmacy, and psychoanalysis.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Professor of Romance Studies, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2003
Professor Emerita of Romance Studies, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2019

Contact Information

219E Language Center, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
vfinucci@duke.edu (919) 660-3119

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., University of Illinois -- Urbana-Champaign 1983
Duke Appointment History
- Professor of Theater Studies, Theater Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2015 - 2018
- Chair of the Arts & Sciences Council Committee on Faculty Research, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012 - 2015
- Director of the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2010 - 2013
- Professor of Theater Studies, Theater Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2006 - 2011
- Associate Professor with Tenure, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1993 - 2003
- Assistant Professor, Romance Studies, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1986 - 1993
Recognition
Awards & Honors
Expertise
Global Scholarship
- Expertise
  - Italy (Country)
Research
Selected Grants
- The Nose Job: Plastic Surgery and Bioethics in the Renaissance awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2008 - 2009
- Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga's Dilemma, researching female physiology and reproduction in the early modern period awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2002 - 2003
- The Equivocal Body: The Castrato in Early Modern Discourses in Italy awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 2000 - 2001
- (98-0055) Body/Matter/Spirit awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1997 - 1998
- (92-0488) Italian Women Writers and the Epic Tradition awarded by Josiah Charles Trent Memorial Foundation 1992
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Andreini, I. Mirtilla, A Pastoral. A Bilingual Edition. Edited by Finucci, V. Translated by Kisacky, J. February 2, 2018. (Edited Book)
  - Finucci, V. The Prince’s Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine. Harvard University Press, ca. 300pp., 2012.
  - Finucci, V. The Manly Masquerade: Masculinity, Paternity, and Castration in the Italian Renaissance. Duke University Press: 321pp, 2003.
  - Finucci, V. The Lady Vanishes: Subjectivity and Representation in Castiglione and Ariosto. Stanford University Press: 329pp, 1992.
- Academic Articles
  - Finucci, V. "Vesalius and the Languages of Anatomy." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 48, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 1-9. Full Text
  - Finucci, V. "Thinking through Death: The Politics of the Corpse." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 45, no. 1 (January 1, 2015): 1-6. Full Text
  - Finucci, V. "Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy." RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION 38, no. 4 (2015): 221-224. Link to Item
  - Finucci, V. "The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe: A Cultural History." Journal of Social History 48, no. 1 (September 1, 2014): 201-203. (Review) Full Text Link to Item
  - Finucci, V. "The Lady Anatomist: The Life and Work of Anna Morandi Manzolini." MLN 129, no. 1 (January 2014): 194-196. Full Text Link to Item
  - Nissen, C. "Kissing the Wild Woman." Early Modern Women Journal (2013). (Review)
  - Simons, P. "The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe." Journal of Social History (2012). (Review)
  - Finucci, V. "Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy." AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW 116, no. 3 (June 2011): 890-891. (Review) Link to Item
  - Finucci, V. "The Virgins Body and Early Modern Surgeons." (2011): 195-221.
  - 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 Fall (2010): 11-18.
  - 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 Fall (2010): 11-18. (Academic Article)
  - Grendler, P. "The University of Mantua: The Gonzaga & the Jesuits, 1584-1630." Annali d’Italianistica 28 (2010): 472-74. (Review)
  - Jaffe, I, and Colombardo, G. "Zelotti’s Epic Frescoes at Cataio: the Obizzi Saga." Annali d’Italianistica 27 (2009): 457-59. (Academic Article)
  - Finucci, V. ""There's the Rub": Searching for Sexual Remedies in the New World." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 38, no. 3 (October 1, 2008): 523-557. Full Text
  - 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." Edited by MR Bonati and V Finucci. (2007): 36-77.
  - Pugliese, O. "Castiglione’s The Book of the Courtier (Il libro del cortegiano): A Classic in the Making." Rivista di Studi Italiani 25 (2007): 299-302.
  - Valeria Finucci, . "Devianza sessuale e imperativi genealogici: Il caso di Margherita Gonzaga." Acta Istriae 15, no. 2 (2007): 385-398. (Academic Article)
  - Finucci, V. "In the Footsteps of Petrarch." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 35, no. 3 (October 1, 2005): 457-466. Full Text
  - Finucci, V. ":Cultural Non-Conformity in Early Modern Florence." Renaissance Quarterly 58, no. 1 (March 2005): 192-193. (Review) Full Text
  - Finucci, V. "’Remember Me!’ Petrarca." Edited by V Finucci. (2005).
  - Finucci, V. "Isabella Canali Andreini." Edited by G Marrone. (2004).
  - Finucci, V. "Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo)." Edited by G Marrone. (2004).
  - Finucci, V. "When the Mirror Lies: Sisterhood Reconsidered in Moderata Fonte’s Thirteen Cantos of Floridoro." Edited by N Miller and N Yavneh. (2004): 116-28.
  - Finucci, V. "Galileo, la polizia del costume e i piaceri del ritorno alla natura." Edited by LT Tomasi. (2004).
  - Finucci, V. "La verginita’ contestata: Fabrici d’Acquapendente e il Gran Turco." Edited by MR Bonati and P Pardo. (2004): 170-91.
  - Henke, R. "Performance and Literature in the Commedia dell’Arte." Shakespeare Quarterly 32 (2004): 382-86. (Review)
  - Finucci, V. "The romance epics of Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso: From public duty to private place." RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION 27, no. 4 (2003): 116-118. (Review) Link to Item
  - Ferguson, R. "The Theatre of Angelo Beolco (Ruzante)." Rivista di Studi Italiani 20 (2002): 517-19. (Academic Article)
  - Bolzoni, L. "La stanza della memoria. Modelli letterari e iconografici nell’et della stampa." MLN 112 (2001): 117-19.
  - Finucci, V. "Maternal Imagination and the Monstrous Child in Tasso’s Gerusalemme Liberata." Edited by V Finucci and K Brownlee. (2001): 41-77.
  - Finucci, V. "Genealogical Pleasures, Genealogical Disruptions." Edited by V Finucci and K Brownlee. (2001): 1-14.
  - Fonte, M. "The Worth of Women ed. by Virginia Cox." Annali d’Italianistica 18 (2001): 493-95. (Review)
  - Maggi, A. "Identita’ e impresa rinascimentale." MLN 116 (2001): 198-200. (Review)
  - Finucci, V. "The Masquerade of Masculinity: Astolfo and Jocondo in Orlando Furioso, 28." Edited by V Finucci. (1999): 215-45.
  - Finucci, V. "Ariosto, Tasso, and Storytelling." Edited by V Finucci. (1999): 1-13.
  - Finucci, V. "L’educazione dei fratelli: legge del padre e sua riscrittura nel Libro del cortegiano." Edited by G Patrizi and A Quondam. (1998): 367-91.
  - Finucci, V. "Book Review: Gendered Contexts: New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies." MLN 113, no. 1 (January 1998): 250-252. (Review) Full Text
  - Valeria Finucci, , and Brownlee, K. "Genealogy and Transgression." Exemplaria 9, no. 1 (1997): 1-5. (Academic Article)
  - Valeria Finucci, . "In the Name of the Brother: Male Rivalry and Social Order in B. Castiglione's Il libro del cortegiano." Exemplaria 9, no. 1 (1997): 91-116. (Review)
  - Finucci, V. "The Female Masquerade: Ariosto and the Game of Desire." Edited by V Finucci and R Schwartz. (1995): 61-88.
  - Finucci, V. "The Italian Memorialist: C. Faa’ Gonzaga." Edited by K Wilson. (1994): 121-28.
  - Schwartz, G. "Worlds Within and Without." Edited by V Finucci and G Schwartz. (1994): 3-15. (Academic Article)
  - Valeria Finucci, . "La scrittura epico-cavalleresca al femminile: Moderata Fonte e Tredici canti del Floridoro." Annali d'Italianistica 12 (1994): 203-231. (Academic Article)
  - Valeria Finucci, . "La scrittura femminile. Considerazioni in margine alla lettura di Le stanze ritrovate." Annali d'Italianistica 9 (1994): 322-329. (Academic Article)
  - Valeria Finucci, . "La donna di corte: discorso istituzionale e realta' ne Il libro del cortegiano." Annali d'Italianistica 7 (1994): 88-103. (Academic Article)
  - Valeria Finucci, . "Dislocation and Dehumanization in a War Novel": Moravia's La Ciociara." Canadian Journal of Italian Studies 10 (1994): 43-58. (Academic Article)
  - Valeria Finucci, . "Alienazione individuale e linguaggio ambientale in Neera." Misure critiche 55-57 (1994): 65-79. (Academic Article)
  - Finucci, V. "Jokes on Women: Triangular Pleasures in Castiglione and Freud." Exemplaria 4, no. 1 (January 1992): 51-77. Full Text
  - Finucci, V. "The Textualization of a Female 'I': Elsa Morante's Menzogna e Sortilegio." Italica 65, no. 4 (1988): 308-308. Full Text
  - FINUCCI, V. "RE-MEMBERING THE I, FAAGONZAGA 'STORIA' (1622)." ITALIAN QUARTERLY 28, no. 107 (1987): 21-32. Link to Item
  - FINUCCI, V. "A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A FEMALE PAINTER, THE KUNSTLERROMAN TRADITION IN BANTI,A. 'ARTEMISIA'." QUADERNI D ITALIANISTICA 8, no. 2 (1987): 167-193. Link to Item
  - FINUCCI, V. "BETWEEN ACQUIESCENCE AND MADNESS, NEERA 'TERESA'." STANFORD ITALIAN REVIEW 7, no. 1-2 (1987): 217-239. Link to Item
- Book Sections
  - Finucci, V. "The Story of Donna Camilla Faa’ of Bruno Gonzaga." edited by K Wilson. University of Georgia Press, 2007.
- Other Articles
  - Finucci, V, and Aers, D. "Open Topic." Edited by V Finucci. In Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 43 (2012).
  - Finucci, V. "Celinda, A Tragedy by Valeria Miani." (2010): 415pp-415pp.
  - Finucci, V, and Aers, D. "Open Topic." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 42.2 (2009).
  - Finucci, V, and Aers, D. "Open Topic." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 41.2 (2009).
  - Finucci, V, and Aers, D. "Open Topic." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 40.2 (2009).
  - Finucci, V, and Aers, D. "Open Topic." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 39.2 (2009).
  - Finucci, V, and Aers, D. "Open Topic." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 38 (2008).
  - Finucci, V, and Aers, D. "Open Topic." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37.2 (2007).
  - Finucci, V, and Bonati, MR. "Mores Italiae: Costume and Life in the Renaissance // Costumi e scene di vita del Rinascimento (Yale University, Beinecke Library, MS 457)." (2007).
  - Finucci, V, and ed, . "Mapping the Mediterranean." A Special Issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 37 (2007).
  - Finucci, V, and ed, . "Floridoro, a Chivalric Romance by Moderata Fonte." (2006).
  - Finucci, V, and ed, . "Petrarca, canoni, esemplarit." (2006).
  - Finucci, V, and Wharton, A. "Open Topic." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 36 (2005).
  - Finucci, V, and Wharton, A. "Open Topic." Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 35 (2005).
  - Finucci, V, and ed, . "In the Footsteps of Petrarch: Literature, Art, Music, Culture." A Special Issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 35 (2005).
  - Finucci, V, ed, , and trans, . "Urania by Giulia Bigolina." (2005).
  - Finucci, V, and ed, . "Urania di Giulia Bigolina (ca. 1554)." (2002).
  - Finucci, V, and ed, . "Renaissance Transactions: Ariosto and Tasso." (1999).
  - Finucci, V, Brownlee, K, and ed, . "Transgressive Genealogies." A Special Cluster of Exemplaria 9 (1997).
  - Finucci, V, and ed, . "Tredici canti del Floridoro di Moderata Fonte (1581)." (1995).
  - Finucci, V, and Schwartz, R. "Desire in the Renaissance: Psychoanalysis and Literature." (1994).
  - Finucci, V, and Brownlee, K. "Generation and Degeneration: Tropes of Reproduction in Literature and History from Antiquity to Early Modern Europe."
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Education, Training, & Certifications

Duke Appointment History

Awards & Honors

Global Scholarship

Expertise

Selected Grants

Selected Publications

Books

Academic Articles

Book Sections

Other Articles

Recent Courses

Presentations & Appearances

Service to the Profession