Notes on Contributors
Eleonora Cappuccilli
holds a Ph.D in History of Political Thought from the University of Bologna (2016) and is research fellow at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. She was previously postdoctoral fellow in History of Ideas at the University of Oslo. Her research focuses on women’s political and religious thought in Renaissance and early modern Europe, feminist political theory and the history and critique of patriarchy. She has published two monographs: La critica imprevista. Politica, teologia e patriarcato in Mary Astell and La strega di Dio. Profezia politica, storia e riforma in Caterina da Racconigi (2020).
Eleonora Carinci
(Ph.D Cantab) is Marie Skłodowska Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo with a research project on the literary representation of the Virgin Mary. Her interests include early modern Italian literature and culture, with particular focus on women’s writings. She has published a number of journal articles and chapters in edited volumes on various authors, as well as a modern edition of Camilla Erculiani’s Lettere di philosophia naturale (Agorà & Co 2016). She is the editor of the English translation of Erculiani’s work in ‘The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe’ series (Iter Press 2021), and her book on Sister Felice Rasponi is forthcoming (Classiques Garnier).
Virginia Cox
is Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College Cambridge. Her research interests are Italian Renaissance literature and intellectual history, women’s writing, and the history of rhetoric. She is the author of The Renaissance Dialogue (Cambridge: 1992); Women’s Writing in Italy, 1400–1650, The Prodigious Muse: Women’s Writing in Counter-Reformation Italy, and Lyric Poetry by Women of the Italian Renaissance (Baltimore: 2008, 2011, and 2013). Her recent publications include three co-edited volumes: A Cultural History of Democracy in the Renaissance, with Joanne Paul (London: 2021), Vittoria Colonna: Poetry, Religion, Art, Impact, with Shannon McHugh (Amsterdam: 2022), and Drama, Poetry, and Music in Late-Renaissance Italy: The Life and Works of Leonora Bernardi, with Lisa Sampson and Anna Wainwright (London: 2023).
Marco Faini
is Assistant Professor at the University at Buffalo (SUNY). He has worked and published on religious print and the history of devotion, unorthodox literature, and the history of doubt. He is the co-editor of Domestic Devotions in Early Modern Italy and Domestic Devotions in the Early Modern World (Leiden-Boston: 2018); A Companion to Pietro Aretino (Leiden-Boston: 2021); Le doute dans l’Europe moderne (Turnhout: 2022). His latest book Standing at the Crossroads: Stories of Doubt in Renaissance Italy is forthcoming with Legenda/MHRA (Cambridge) in the Italian Perspective series.
Unn Falkeid
is Professor of History of Ideas at the University of Oslo. Her research interests centre on medieval and early modern intellectual history, religious reform movements, women’s contribution to the early modern history of knowledge, Renaissance humanism, and book history. Her publications include the co-edited volumes The Cambridge Companion to Petrarch (Cambridge: 2015), Rethinking Gaspara Stampa in the Canon of Renaissance Poetry (Farnham: 2015), Sanctity and Female Authorship: Birgitta of Sweden & Catherine of Siena (New York: 2020), and the award-winning monograph The Avignon Papacy Contested: An Intellectual History from Dante to Catherine of Siena (Cambridge: 2017).
Isabella Gagliardi
is Professor of History of Christianity and Churches at the University of Florence and Membre Associé of Laboratoire d’études sur les monothéismes and Directeur d’Etudes Associé, DEA 2022 at Fondation Maison de Sciences de l’Homme in Paris. Her research concerns the history of religious movements from the Ancient to Early Modern societies in the Euro-Mediterranean context with a comparative perspective and with special attention to the history of women. Her latest book is Anima e corpo. Donne e fedi nel mondo mediterraneo (secoli XI–XVI), Roma, Carocci, 2023.
Jessica Goethals
is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Alabama. In addition to her monograph Margherita Costa, Diva of the Baroque Court (University of Toronto Press, 2023), she has published on the Italian Wars and is currently writing a book provisionally entitled The Literary Sack of Rome: Anticipation to Aftermath. Her articles on the subject have appeared in Renaissance Studies (2023), I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance (2014), and Italian Studies (2013). She has held long-term fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and Villa I Tatti – The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.
Brian Richardson
is Emeritus Professor of Italian Language at the University of Leeds. His research interests centre on the history of the Italian language and the history of the circulation of texts in manuscript, in print and orally in late medieval and Renaissance Italy. His publications include Print Culture in Renaissance Italy: The Editor and the Vernacular Text, 1470–1600 (Cambridge: 1994), Printing, Writers and Readers in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge: 1999), Manuscript Culture in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge: 2009), Women and the Circulation of Texts in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge: 2020) and an edition of Giovan Francesco Fortunio’s Regole grammaticali della volgar lingua (Rome and Padua: 2001).
Clara Stella
holds a Ph.D in Italian studies from the University of Leeds. From March 2022 she is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Integrated Philologies at the University of Sevilla. She has previously been a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of History of Ideas at the University of Oslo with the project Women Writing Saints. Stella’s research focuses on early modern women’s writing, the querelle de femmes, the history of anthologies, and models of sanctity. Her publications include Lodovico Domenichi e le Rime diverse d’alcune nobilissime et virtuosissime donne (1559) (Paris: 2022) and “Speaking with Authority: Reading Catherine of Siena in the Times of Vittoria Colonna”, Renaissance and Reformation, 44/4(2022):9–50.
Jane Tylus
is Andrew Downey Orrick Professor of Italian and Professor of Comparative Literature at Yale University. She specializes in late medieval and early modern European literature, religion, and culture, with secondary interests in 19th–20th century fiction. Her work, including the award-winning Reclaiming Catherine of Siena: Literacy, Literature, and the Signs of Others (2009), has focused on the recovery and interrogation of lost and marginalized voices – historical personages, dialects and “parole pellegrine”, minor genres such as pastoral, secondary characters in plays, poems, and epics. She has also been active in the practice and theory of translation. Her current book project explores the ritual of departure in early modernity, especially how writers and artists sent their works into the world.
Anna Wainwright
is Assistant Professor of Italian Studies and Core Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of New Hampshire. Her research considers gender, race, politics, and emotion in medieval and early modern Italy. Her book, Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in Renaissance Italy, investigates the cultural and political significance of widowhood in early modern Italy from Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, to the women poets of the Counter-Reformation (Delaware, forthcoming). She is the co-editor of the volumes Innovation in the Italian Counter-Reformation (Delaware: 2020) and Teaching Race in the European Renaissance: A Classroom Guide (ACMRS, 2023).