General Reading

Barbaro, Francesco, ‘On Wifely Duties’ in Benjamin G. Kohl and Ronald G. Witt (eds and trans.), The Earthly Republic: Italian Humanists on Government and Society (Philadelphia, 1978), pp. 179-230.

Brown, J.C., and R. Davis (eds.), Gender and Society in Renaissance Italy.

Cohn, S.K., Jr., Women in the Streets: Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy.

D’Elia, Anthony Francis, ‘Marriage, Sexual Pleasure, and Learned Brides in the Wedding Orations of Fifteenth-Century Italy’Link opens in a new window, Renaissance Quarterly 55 (2002), 379-433. JSTOR

D’Elia, Anthony Francis, The Renaissance of Marriage in Fifteenth-Century Italy (Cambridge, Mass., 2004)

Dean, Trevor, and K.J.P. Lowe, (eds.), Marriage in Italy, 1300-1650 (Oxford, 1998)

Hacke, Daniela, Women, Sex and Marriage in Early Modern Venice (Aldershot, 2004)

Moran, Megan, 'Motherhood and the Politics of Family Decisions in Early Modern Italy,' Journal of Family History 40 (2015), 351-372.

Panizza, Letizia, (ed.), Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society (Oxford, 2000)

Robin, Diana, 'Women on the Move: Trends in Anglophone Studies of Women in the Italian RenaissanceLink opens in a new window', I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 16 (2013), 13-25

Salzberg, Rosa, '"Poverty Makes Me Invisible": Street Singers and Hard Times in Italian Renaissance Cities,' Italian Studies 71 (2016): 212-224.

Schutte, Anne Jacobson, Thomas Kuehn, and Silvana Seidel Menchi (eds), Time, Space, and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe (Kirksville, MO, 2001)

Talvacchia, Bette, Taking Positions: On the Erotic in Renaissance Culture (Princeton, NJ, 1999)

Venice

Chojnacka, Monica, ‘Women, Charity and Community in Early Modern Venice: The Casa delle Zitelle’Link opens in a new window, Renaissance Quarterly 51 (1998), 68-91.

Chojnacka, Monica, Working Women of Early Modern Venice (Baltimore, 2001)

Chojnacki, Stanley, 'The Patronage of the Body: Burial Sites, Identity, and Gender in Fifteenth-Century Venice,' Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 45 (2015), 79-101.

Chojnacki, Stanley, Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: Twelve Essays on Patrician SocietyLink opens in a new window (Baltimore, 2000)

Clarke, Paula, 'The Business of Prostitution in Early Renaissance Venice,' Renaissance Quarterly 68 (2015), 419-464.

Cowan, Alexander, Marriage, Manners and Mobility in Early Modern VeniceLink opens in a new window (Aldershot, 2007)

Cristellon, Cecilia, Marriage, the Church, and its Judges in Renaissance Venice, 1420-1545Link opens in a new window, trans. Celeste McNamara (Basingstoke, 2017)

Cristellon, Cecilia,'Marriage and Consent in Pretridentine Venice: Between Lay Conception and Ecclesiastical Conception, 1420–1545,' Sixteenth Century Journal 39 (2008), 389–418.

Cristellon, Cecilia, 'Public display of affection. The making of marriage in the Venetian courts before the Council of Trent (1420-1545)', in S. Mathews-Grieco, ed., Erotic Cultures of Renaissance Italy (Burlington, VT, 2010), pp. 173-98.

Dallavalle, Lisa, 'The Moretti Family: Late Marriage, Bachelorhood and Domestic Authority in Seventeenth-Century Venice,' Gender & History 27 (2015), 684-702.

De Vivo, Filippo, 'Walking in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Mobilizing the Early Modern City,' I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 19 (2016), 115-141.

Eisenach, Emlyn, Husbands, Wives, and Concubines: Marriage, Family and Social Order in Sixteenth Century Verona (Kirksville, MO, 2004)

Fedele, Cassandra, Letters and Orations, ed. and trans. Diana Robin (Chicago, 2000).

Ferraro, Joanne M., ‘The Power to Decide: Battered Wives in Early Modern Venice’Link opens in a new window, Renaissance Quarterly 48 (1995), 492-512. JSTOR

Ferraro, Joanne M., Marriage Wars in late Renaissance VeniceLink opens in a new window (Oxford, 2001)

Ferraro, Joanne M., Nefarious crimes, contested justice: illicit sex and infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557-1789 (Baltimore, 2008).

Fonte, Moderata [Moderata Pozzi], The Worth of Women, ed. and trans. Virginia Cox (Chicago, 1997).

Gori, Gigliola, 'Sporting Events Organized in Venice: Male Boating and the Amazing Case of Women’s Rowing ContestsLink opens in a new window', The International Journal of the History of Sport 2015 32/4 (2015), 584–96

Grubb, James, ‘Elite Citizens,’ in Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797Link opens in a new window, ed. John Martin and Dennis Romano (Baltimore, 2000), pp. 339-64. NetLibrary

Guzzetti, Linda, ‘Dowries in Fourteenth-Century Venice’Link opens in a new window, Renaissance Studies 16.4 (2002), 430-73. Blackwell

Guzzetti, Linda, ‘Le donne a Venezia nel XIV secolo: Uno studio sulla loro presenza nella società e nella famiglia’, Studi veneziani, n.s., 35 (1998), 15-88

Guzzetti, Linda, and A. Ziemann, ‘Women in the fourteenth-century Venetian Scuole’Link opens in a new window, Renaissance Quarterly 55 (2002), 1151-95. JSTOR

Hacke, Daniela, Women, Sex and Marriage in Early Modern Venice (Aldershot, 2004)

Hardgrave, Jason, ‘The Formation of Women’s Legal Identity in Trecento Venice’Link opens in a new window, Essays in Medieval Studies 22 (2005), 41-52. Project Muse

Horodowich, Elizabeth, ‘The gossiping tongue: oral networks, public life and political culture in early modern Venice’,Link opens in a new window Renaissance Studies 19.1 (2005), 22–45. Blackwell Synergy

Hurlburt, Holly S., 'Body of Empire: Caterina Corner in Venetian History and IconographyLink opens in a new window', Early Modern Women 4 (2009), 61-99

Hurlburt, Holly S., The Dogaressa of Venice (Basingstoke, 2006)

Iordanou, Ioanna, 'Pestilence, Poverty, and Provision: Re-evaluating the Role of the Popolani in Early Modern VeniceLink opens in a new window,' The Economic History Review 69 (2016), 801-22.

King, Margaret L., The death of the child Valerio MarcelloLink opens in a new window (Chicago, 1994)

King, Margaret L., ‘Personal, Domestic, and Republican Values in the Moral Philosophy of Giovanni Caldiera’Link opens in a new window, Renaissance Quarterly 28 (1975), 535-74.

Knapton, Michael, ‘"Nobiltà e popolo" e un trentennio di storiografia veneta’, Nuova Rivista Storica 82 (1998), 167-92.

Labalme, Patricia H., 'Sodomy and Venetian Justice in the RenaissanceLink opens in a new window', Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'histoire du droit / The Legal History Review 52/3 (1984), 217-254.

Labalme, Patricia H., Laura Sanguineti White, and Linda Carroll, ‘How to (and How Not to) Get Married in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Selections from the Diaries of Marin Sanudo)’Link opens in a new window, Renaissance Quarterly 52 (1999), 43-72.

Mackenney, Richard, Venice as the Polity of Mercy: Guilds, Confraternities, and the Social Order, c. 1250-c. 1650Link opens in a new windowLink opens in a new window (Toronto, 2019)

Marinella, Lucrezia, The Nobility and Excellence of Women and the Defects and Vices of Men, ed. and trans. Anne Dunhill (Chicago, 1999).

Martin, J., and D. Romano, (eds.), Venice Reconsidered: The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State 1297-1797Link opens in a new window (Baltimore, 2000)

McClure, George W., The Culture of Profession in Late Renaissance Italy (Toronto, 2004) Correr

McGough, Laura, ‘Women, private property, and the limitations of state authority in early modern Venice’Link opens in a new window, Journal of Women’s History 14.3 (2002), 32–52. Project Muse

McGough, Laura, Gender, sexuality, and syphilis in early modern Venice: The disease that came to stay (Basingstoke, 2010)

Mueller, Reinhold, ‘Espressioni di status sociale dopo la "serrata" del Maggior Consiglio di Venezia," Studi Veneti offerti a Gaetano Cozzi (Venice, 1992), pp. 53-60.

Queller, Donald E., and Thomas F. Madden. ‘Father of the Bride: Fathers, Daughters, and Dowries in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Venice’Link opens in a new window, Renaissance Quarterly 46 (1993), 685-711. JSTOR

Riccoboni, Sister Bartolomea, Life and Death in a Venetian Convent, ed. and trans. Daniel Bornstein (Chicago, 2000).

Rogers, Mary, ‘An Ideal Wife at the Villa Maser: Veronese, the Barbaros and Renaissance Theorists of Marriage’, Renaissance Studies 7 (1993): 379-97

Romano, Dennis, Housecraft and Statecraft: Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice 1400-1600 (Baltimore, 1996)

Romano, Dennis, Patricians and Popolani: The Social Foundations of the Venetian Renaissance State (Baltimore, 1987)

Ruggiero, Guido, Binding passions : tales of magic, marriage, and power at the end of the Renaissance (New York, 1993)

Salzberg, Rosa, ‘"Poverty Makes Me Invisible": Street Singers and Hard Times in Italian Renaissance CitiesLink opens in a new window', Italian Studies 71/2 (2016), 212-24.

E-resource

Johnston, Hannah, A Sexual Tour of Venice: Mapping a Sixteenth-Century Catalogue of CourtesansLink opens in a new window