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Valeria Finucci

Professor Emerita of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
219E Language Center, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Presentations & Appearances


Medical Investigation in the Archive: The Health Issues of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga (1562-1612)" · November 27, 2013 Lecture Columbia University
Healing the Rich: Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga's Medical 'Indispositions'" · November 27, 2013 Lecture Casa Italiana, New York University, NY
Looking for Bugs in the New World: The Aphrodisiacal Worm · November 27, 2013 Lecture University of Geneva, Switzerland
“L’anatomista: Girolamo Fabrici d’Acquapendente,” Symposium on “Anatome: Sezione, Scomposizione, Raffigurazione del corpo fra Medioevo e età moderna” · November 20, 2012 Lecture University of Bologna, Italy
Skin Disease and Plastic Surgery in the Renaissance · November 20, 2012 Lecture CUNY Graduate Center, New York
The Aesthetic Cure: Skin Disease, Noses, and the Invention of Plastic Surgery · November 20, 2012 Lecture Princeton University
“Fashion, Cosmopolitan Polish, and Display: Early Modern Italy through the Illustrated Albums of Foreign Students · November 20, 2012 Lecture Wake Forest University
1. “Clothes, Cosmopolitan Polish, and Excess: Italy through the Illustrated Albums of Foreign Students" · December 1, 2010 Lecture Mount Holyoke College, MA
La cultura delle apparenze: Mores Italiae, 1575 · May 1, 2008 Lecture University of Padua, Italy
Illustrated Books of the Renaissance: Costume and Custom in Venice, ca. 1575 · April 1, 2008 Lecture Northwestern University
Waiting to be Counted: Reconstructing the Italian Renaissance Canon, Genre by Genre · April 1, 2008 Lecture CUNY Graduate School, New York
'There's the Rub': Searching for Sexual Remedies in the New World · February 1, 2008 Lecture University of Pennsylvania
In Search of a Sexual Fix: The Peruvian Elixir · February 1, 2008 Lecture University of Miami, Plenary Speaker

Service to the Profession


Symposium on "Thinking Through Death: Corpses and Mortality Strategies in Medieval and Early Modern Europe" · September 11, 2012 Event/Organization Administration
Symposium on "Holy Relics and Cursed Bodies: The Politics of the Corpse" · August 7, 2012 Event/Organization Administration
Organizer of Series "Crossings: Navigating Cultures in the Medieval and Early Modern Period" · January 17, 2011 Event/Organization Administration
Symposium on "Animated Anatomies: The Human Body from the 16th through the 21st Centuries," Duke University · September 23, 2010 Event/Organization Administration
Co-Organizer, Perkins Library and History of Medicine Library, Duke University : Exhibit, "Animated Anatomies" · May 14, 2010 Event/Organization Administration
Co-Organizer : Symposium "L'occhio del viaggiatore: Costumi e scene di vita nell'Italia del Rinascimento" · May 14, 2010 Event/Organization Administration
Organizer of Symposium : Symposium "In the Footsteps of Petrarch: Poetry, Music, Art, Culture" · May 1, 2008 Event/Organization Administration University of Padua, Italy