Scholars@Duke
Valeria Finucci

Valeria Finucci

Professor Emerita of Romance Studies
Romance Studies
vfinucci@duke.edu
Box 90257, Durham, NC 27708-0257
219E Language Center, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

:Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy

Journal Article The Journal of Modern History · June 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Rethinking Medical Humanities: Perspectives from the Arts and the Social Sciences

Book · December 19, 2022 Medical Humanities may be broadly conceptualized as a discipline wherein medicine and its specialties intersect with those of the humanities and social sciences. As such it is a hybrid area of study where the impact of disease and healing science on cultur ... Full text Cite

Rethinking medical humanities

Chapter · December 19, 2022 Full text Cite

A royal accident: Medical authority and political dynamics in 1559

Journal Article I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance · March 1, 2021 Full text Open Access Cite

Mirtilla, A Pastoral. A Bilingual Edition.

Book · February 2, 2018 Isabella Andreini was the most famous actress of the Italian Renaissance, the darling of dukes and kings, as well as of less-moneyed theatergoers. As a founding member with her husband, Francesco, of the Compagnia dei Gelosi, she performed ceaselessly thro ... Cite

Vesalius and the languages of anatomy

Journal Article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · January 1, 2018 Full text Open Access Cite

Thinking through death: The politics of the corpse

Journal Article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · January 1, 2015 Full text Cite

Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy.

Journal Article RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION · 2015 Cite

Kissing the Wild Woman: Concepts of Art, Beauty, and the Italian Prose Romance in Giulia Bigolina's Urania

Journal Article EARLY MODERN WOMEN-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL · 2014 Cite

Kissing the Wild Woman

Journal Article Early Modern Women Journal · 2013 Cite

Open Topic

Other In Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · 2012 Cite

The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe

Journal Article Journal of Social History · 2012 Cite

Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy

Journal Article AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW · June 2011 Link to item Cite

:Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy

Journal Article The Journal of Modern History · June 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Rethinking Medical Humanities: Perspectives from the Arts and the Social Sciences

Book · December 19, 2022 Medical Humanities may be broadly conceptualized as a discipline wherein medicine and its specialties intersect with those of the humanities and social sciences. As such it is a hybrid area of study where the impact of disease and healing science on cultur ... Full text Cite

Rethinking medical humanities

Chapter · December 19, 2022 Full text Cite

A royal accident: Medical authority and political dynamics in 1559

Journal Article I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance · March 1, 2021 Full text Open Access Cite

Mirtilla, A Pastoral. A Bilingual Edition.

Book · February 2, 2018 Isabella Andreini was the most famous actress of the Italian Renaissance, the darling of dukes and kings, as well as of less-moneyed theatergoers. As a founding member with her husband, Francesco, of the Compagnia dei Gelosi, she performed ceaselessly thro ... Cite

Vesalius and the languages of anatomy

Journal Article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · January 1, 2018 Full text Open Access Cite

Thinking through death: The politics of the corpse

Journal Article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · January 1, 2015 Full text Cite

Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy.

Journal Article RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION · 2015 Cite

Kissing the Wild Woman: Concepts of Art, Beauty, and the Italian Prose Romance in Giulia Bigolina's Urania

Journal Article EARLY MODERN WOMEN-AN INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL · 2014 Cite

Kissing the Wild Woman

Journal Article Early Modern Women Journal · 2013 Cite

Open Topic

Other In Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · 2012 Cite

The Sex of Men in Premodern Europe

Journal Article Journal of Social History · 2012 Cite

Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy

Journal Article AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW · June 2011 Link to item Cite

La Italia de los ltimos aos del siglo XVI en el lbum ilustrado de estudiantes extranjero

Journal Article Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Human�sticos y Literatura / International Journal of Humanistic Studies and Literature · 2010 Cite

The University of Mantua: The Gonzaga & the Jesuits, 1584-1630

Journal Article Annali d’Italianistica · 2010 Cite

Celinda A Tragedy

Book · 2010 Accompanied by Julia Kisacky's sensitive translation, and with a valuable contextualizing introduction by Valeria Finucci, this edition of Celinda makes an important contribution to our understanding of women's place within Italian literary ... ... Cite

“La Italia de los últimos años del siglo XVI en el álbum ilustrado de estudiantes extranjero”

Journal Article Cuaderno Internacional de Estudios Humanísticos y Literatura / International Journal of Humanistic Studies and Literature · 2010 Cite

Open Topic

Other Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · 2009 Cite

Open Topic

Other Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · 2009 Cite

Open Topic

Other Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · 2009 Cite

Open Topic

Other Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · 2009 Cite

Zelotti’s Epic Frescoes at Cataio: the Obizzi Saga

Journal Article Annali d’Italianistica · 2009 Cite

"There's the rub": Searching for sexual remedies in the New World

Journal Article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · December 1, 2008 Full text Cite

Open Topic

Other Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · 2008 Cite

Open Topic

Other Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · 2007 Cite

Mapping the Mediterranean

Other A Special Issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · 2007 Cite

:Cultural Non-Conformity in Early Modern Florence

Journal Article Renaissance Quarterly · March 2005 Full text Cite

Open Topic

Other Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · 2005 Cite

In the Footsteps of Petrarch: Literature, Art, Music, Culture

Other A Special Issue of the Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · 2005 Cite

Open Topic

Other Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · 2005 Cite

’Remember Me!’ Petrarca

Journal Article · 2005 Cite

In the footsteps of Petrarch

Journal Article Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies · January 1, 2005 Full text Cite

Isabella Canali Andreini

Journal Article · 2004 Cite

Moderata Fonte (Modesta Pozzo)

Journal Article · 2004 Cite

Performance and Literature in the Commedia dell’Arte

Journal Article Shakespeare Quarterly · 2004 Cite

The Theatre of Angelo Beolco (Ruzante)

Journal Article Rivista di Studi Italiani · 2002 Cite

Identita’ e impresa rinascimentale

Journal Article MLN · 2001 Cite

The Worth of Women ed. by Virginia Cox

Journal Article Annali d’Italianistica · 2001 Cite

Ariosto, Tasso, and Storytelling

Journal Article · 1999 Cite

Transgressive Genealogies

Other A Special Cluster of Exemplaria · 1997 Cite

Genealogy and transgression: An introduction

Journal Article International Journal of Phytoremediation · January 1, 1997 Full text Cite

In the name of the brother: Male rivalry and social order in baldassarre castiglione's il libro del cortegiano

Journal Article International Journal of Phytoremediation · January 1, 1997 I understand very well; you do not want to destroy us, your “fathers,” you only want to take our place. Kindly, politely…. G. Tomasi di Lampedusa, The Leopard Fratelli d'Italia, L'Italia s' è desta. Dell' elmo di Scipio S' è cinta la testa. Inno di Mameli ... Full text Cite

Genealogy and Transgression

Journal Article Exemplaria · 1997 Cite

Worlds Within and Without

Journal Article · 1994 Cite

Dislocation and Dehumanization in a War Novel": Moravia's La Ciociara

Journal Article Canadian Journal of Italian Studies · 1994 Cite

Alienazione individuale e linguaggio ambientale in Neera

Journal Article Misure critiche · 1994 Cite

RE-MEMBERING THE I, FAAGONZAGA 'STORIA' (1622)

Journal Article ITALIAN QUARTERLY · 1987 Cite

BETWEEN ACQUIESCENCE AND MADNESS, NEERA 'TERESA'

Journal Article STANFORD ITALIAN REVIEW · 1987 Cite