Valeria Finucci

Biographic Data

ID550739
NAMEValeria Finucci
GIVEN NAMESValeria
FAMILY NAMEFinucci
SIGNATUREFINUCCI V
AFFILIATIONSDuke University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS8
WORKS AS AUTHOR33
WORKS AS EDITOR4
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1987
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Making the Renaissance Man

    Valeria FinucciARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2025

  • Mònica Calabritto, Murder and Madness on Trial

    Open AccessValeria FinucciARTICLESocial History of Medicine2024

    Journal Article Mònica Calabritto, Murder and Madness on Trial: A Tale of True Crime from Early Modern Bologna Get access Mònica Calabritto, Murder and Madness on Trial: A Tale of True Crime from Early Modern Bologna, University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2023. Pp. xvi + 148. $29.95. Pbk. ISBN 978-0-271-09509-7. Valeria Finucci Valeria Finucci Romance Studies Department, Duke University, Durham NC 27712 [email protected] Search for ot…

  • Eunuchs and Castrati

    Open AccessValeria FinucciARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2023

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  • Forgotten Healers

    Valeria FinucciARTICLEThe Journal of Modern History2023

  • Rethinking Medical Humanities

    Massimo Ciavolella, Rinaldo F Canalis et al.BOOKRethinking Medical Humanities2022

  • Rethinking Medical Humanities

    Rinaldo F Canalis, Massimo Ciavolella et al.EDITORBOOKRethinking Medical Humanities2022

    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 culture is assessed and expressed in the particular language of the disciplines concerned with the human experience. However, as much as at first sight this definition appears to be clear, it does not…

  • A Royal Accident

    Open AccessValeria FinucciARTICLEI Tatti Studies2021References: 2

    NotesContact Valeria Finucci at Romance Studies Department, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708 ([email protected]).I would like to dedicate this essay to Kevin Brownlee, friend, mentor, colleague, guide, and academic advocate. More than thirty years ago he invited me to participate in a National Endowment for the Humanities summer seminar on Dante’s Divina Commedia at Dartmouth College. That event, together with his unwavering support through the …

  • Mirtilla, A Pastoral

    Isabella Andreini, Valeria Finucci et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2019

  • Vesalius and the Languages of Anatomy

    Valeria FinucciARTICLEJournal of Medieval and Early…2018

    In 1543 Andreas Vesalius published his landmark work of anatomy, On the Fabric of the Human Body, which delved inside the human body to see what made it work. Vesalius’s illustrations of body parts were based on what could be seen with the eyes through the practice of dissection. Thereafter the most authoritative philosophical and medical pronouncements of the day (by the Hippocratics, Galen, and Ibn Sina) were put to rest unless the eye of the i…

  • Daughters of Alchemy

    Meredith K Ray, Valeria FinucciARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2016

    Ray, Meredith K. Daughters of Alchemy: Women and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Sex Acts in the Early Modern World), on Érudit

  • The Prince’s Body

    Valeria Finucci, John MastrogianakosARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2015

    Finucci, Valeria. The Prince’s Body: Vincenzo Gonzaga and Renaissance Medicine. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 38, Number 2, Spring 2015, pp. 5-201), on Érudit

  • Thinking through Death

    Valeria FinucciARTICLEJournal of Medieval and Early…2015

    This special issue of JMEMS addresses different ways of thinking through death and dying in the medieval and early modern period, including different philosophical and legal positions concerning the relationships between the body and its parts, corpses and burial sites, the bodies of saints and the bodies of criminals, the bodies of the dying confessing on their deathbeds and the bodies of suicides choosing to be buried with their souls unprepare…

  • There's the Rub”

    Valeria FinucciARTICLEJournal of Medieval and Early…2008

    In his late forties, Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga of Mantua (1562–1612) decided he needed a new biostimulator to cure his legendary restlessness, for he was experiencing senior amatory difficulties. Thus he sent a young apothecary on a journey from Mantua to Spain, and then to Panama and Peru, to find an animal Viagra-equivalent in that expanse of lands where marvels were contained. The duke's discreet fantasy of resurrecting the flesh, anchored in male…

  • The Secret Wound

    Open AccessValeria FinucciARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2008

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  • In the Footsteps of Petrarch

    Valeria FinucciARTICLEJournal of Medieval and Early…2005

  • Cultural Non-Conformity in Early Modern Florence

    Valeria FinucciARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2005

    Domenico Zanrè. Cultural Non-Conformity in Early Modern Florence. Aldershot and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company 2004. xiv + 190 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $69.95. ISBN: 0-7546-3007-2. - Volume 58 Issue 1

  • Urania

    Giulia Bigolina, Giulia ca Bigolina et al.BOOKUrania2004

  • The Manly Masquerade

    Valeria Finucci, Carole Collier FrickARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2004

    The Manly Masquerade unravels the complex ways men were defined as men in Renaissance Italy through readings of a vast array of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century evidence - medical and travel literature; theology; law; myth; conduct books; and, plays, chivalric romances, and novellas by authors including Machiavelli, Tasso and Ariosto. Valeria Finucci shows how ideas of masculinity were formed in the midst of acute anxiety about paternity by hig…

  • The Romance Epics of Boiardo, Ariosto and Tasso

    Jo Ann Cavallo, Valeria FinucciARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2003

  • Identita e impresa rinascimentale (review)

    Valeria FinucciARTICLEModern Language Notes2001

    MLN - Volume 116, Number 1, January 2001 (Italian Issue)

  • Generation and Degeneration

    Dale B Martin, Elizabeth A Clark et al.EDITORBOOKGeneration and Degeneration2001Cited by: 6

    This book is about the discourses that inform constructions of genealogies, whether we speak of genealogy in the biological sense of procreation and reproduction or in the metaphorical sense of heritage and cultural patrimony.It retraces generational fantasies and generational discords in a variety of related contexts, from the medical to the theological, and from the literary to the historical.It moves through a number of centuries, from Greco-R…

  • Renaissance Transactions

    Valeria FinucciEDITORBOOKRenaissance Transactions1999

  • Renaissance Transactions

    Ronnie H Terpening, Valeria FinucciARTICLEItalica1999

  • Gendered Contexts

    Valeria FinucciARTICLEModern Language Notes1998

    Reviewed by: Gendered Contexts: New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies Valeria Finucci Laura Benedetti, Julia Hairston & Silvia Ross, eds. Gendered Contexts: New Perspectives in Italian Cultural Studies. New York: Peter Lang, 1996 This collection of essays constitutes a welcome addition to the ever growing publication on Italian literature read from a gendered perspective. The result, partly, of two conferences organized by the graduate stu…

  • Genealogy and Transgression

    Valeria Finucci, Kevin BrownleeARTICLEExemplaria1997