This book brings together essays from a range of disciplines within Early Modern Italian Studies, which focus on research areas pioneered by the prestigious Italianist, Letizia Panizza. The essays cover numerous themes, mirroring Panizza's broad scholarly interests, and refusal of artificial disciplinary separations. Contributions come from the fields of women's history, cultural history, intellectual history, political philosophy, and art history. They span from Giordano Bruno and the Renaissance interest in the lives of classical philosophers to the poetry of women in the Italian academies, representations of women in Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, and the poetry of Piero de Medici. The volume ends with essays on religious parody, libertinism, and controversial political writings. This book presents original new work by leading scholars in the intellectual, cultural and literary history of early modern Italy and is aimed at scholars of intellectual history, history of philosophy, literary history, women's studies and Italian history.

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Dr. Stephen Clucas is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History at Birkbeck, University of London. He was founding co-editor (with Stephen Gaukroger) of the journal Intellectual History Review (2007-2020). He has published widely on various aspects of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century intellectual history, including several articles on the mnemotechnics of Giordano Bruno, some of which have been republished in Magic, Memory and Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (2011). He is currently co-editing Thomas Hobbes' De corpore (with Timothy J. Raylor) for the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes.

Simone Testa (PhD, Royal Holloway, University of London) teaches at the International Studies Institute, Florence. A scholar of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Italian culture with particular focus on political literature and intellectual networks, his publications include Scipione Di Castro e il suo trattato politico con una traduzione inglese inedita del Seicento (Manziana [Rome], Vecchiarelli, 2012); Italian Academies 1500-1700. From Local to Global, (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2015). He also wrote the script for the graphic novel Vita di Niccolò Machiavelli fiorentino (Argelato: Minerva, 2019). He has been full-time Post-doctoral Researcher on the AHRC Italian Academies collaborative research projects (Royal Holloway, British Library, and University of Reading), Post doctoral researcher at the University of Manchester, and has held fellowships at the John Rylands Research Centre (Manchester), the Newberry Library (Chicago), the Harry Ransom Center (Austin, Texas), and The European University Institute (Fiesole).