Joanne M. Ferraro, Ph.D.

The Renaissance and the Wider World. London: Bloomsbury Academic Press, January 2024.

General Series Editor. A Cultural History of Marriage from Antiquity to the Present. 6 vols. London: Bloomsbury Press Academic, December 26, 2019.

Volume Editor. A Cultural History of Marriage in the Renaissance and Early Modern Age. London: Bloomsbury Press Academic, December 26, 2019.

Volume Co-Editor. A Cultural History of Marriage in the Medieval Age. London: Bloomsbury Press Academic, December 26, 2019.

Venice: History of the Floating City. Cambridge, GB and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012 Hard cover and Kindle edition
One of 12 Best Books in Biography and History. Library Journal 2012
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Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557- 1789. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

Marriage Wars in Late Renaissance Venice. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Studies in the History of Sexuality. 240 pages, 8 illustrations Paperback, Hard cover, and Kindle edition
Winner of the Helen and Howard R. Marraro Book Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies (2002)
Winner of the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Book Prize (2002)

Vita pubblica e privata a Brescia. Brescia, Italy: Edizioni Morcelliana, 1998. Italian translation of Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650. The Foundations of Power in the Venetian State (Cambridge UP, 1993).

Family and Public Life in Brescia, 1580-1650. The Foundations of Power in the Venetian State. Cambridge, GB: Cambridge University Press, 1993. 275 pages, 8 maps and illustrations, 12 tables. Paperback edition, January 2003.

"Tales of Marriage, Concubinage, and Prostitution in the Venetian Archives." In Turning Tales: Essays on History and Literature in Honor of Guido Ruggiero. Edited by Mary Lindemann and Deanna Shemek. Delaware, MD: University of Delaware Press, forthcoming 2024.

“Female Agency, Subjectivity, and Disorder in Early Modern Venice.” In Unrest in Venice. Popular Politics in an Aristocratic Republic.  Maartje Gelder and Claire Judde de Larivière  eds., Routledge, forthcoming.

“Making a Living. The Sex Trade in Early Modern Venice.” The American Historical Review 123, no. 1 (2018)

“Youth in Peril in Early Modern Venice.” The Journal of Social History. 49, no.4 (2016): 761- 783.

“Medieval and Early Modern Childhood.” In The Routledge History of Childhood in the Western World. Ed. Paula Fass. (New York: Routledge, 2013), 61-77.

"One Community's Secret: Incest and Infanticide in the Late Sixteenth-Century Veneto." Acta Histriae 15 (2007): 441-452.

“The Manufacture and Movement of Goods.” In The Renaissance World, ed. J. J Martin, 87-100. New York: Routledge, 2007.

“'Making' Geographies and Polities: Representing Women in Italian Economic History.” In Structures and Subjectivities: Attending to Early Modern Women. Eds. J. Hartman and A. Seeff, 75-88. Delaware: University of Delaware Press, 2006.

“Families and Clans in the Renaissance World.” In The Blackwell Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance. Ed. Guido Ruggiero, 173-187. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

“Coniugi nemici: Orsetta, Annibale ed il compito dello storico (Venezia 1634).” In I Coniugi nemici. La separazione in Italia dal XII al XVIII secolo. Eds. Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni, 141-190. Bologna: Società editrice Il Mulino, 2000.

“Honor and the Marriage Wars of Late Renaissance Venice.” In Honour: Identity and Ambiguity of an Informal Code in the Mediterranean, Acta Histriae 8 (2000): 41-48.

"The Power to Decide: Battered Wives in Early Modern Venice." Renaissance Quarterly 48 (1995): 492-512.

"Oligarchs, Protesters, and the Republic of Venice. The `Revolution of the Discontents' in Brescia, 1644-45.” The Journal of Modern History 60 (1988): 627-653.

"Noble involvement in Violence and Banditry in Brescia in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries." In La Guerra del Sale (1680-1699). Conflitti e Frontiere delPiemonte Barocco [The Salt War (1680-1699). The Conflicts and Frontiers of BaroquePiedmont.] 303-308. Milan: Franco Angeli, 1986.

"Proprietà terriera e potere nello Stato veneto: la nobiltà bresciana del '400-'500." ["Real Estate and Power in the Venetian State: The Brescian Nobility in the 15th and 16th Centuries"]. Civis 24 (1984): 319-342.

"Feudal-Patrician Investments in the Bresciano and the Politics of the Estimo, 1426- 1641." Studi Veneziani N.S. 7 (1983): 31-57.

“Early Modern Europe.” The History of Childhood. Ed. Paula Fass, Vol. 1: 287-291. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004.

“Family Patterns and Childhood Experience.” The History of Childhood. Ed. Paula Fass, Vol 2: 339-342. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2004.

“Courtship, Marriage and Divorce in European Society.” The Encyclopedia ofSocial History. Ed. Peter Stearns, Vol. 4: 145-160. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2001.

“Charivari.” The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Ed. Paul Grendler, Vol. 1: 400-401. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999.

“Honor.” The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance.Ed. Paul Grendler, Vol 3: 193-194. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999.

“Social Status” in: The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, .Ed. Paul Grendler, Vol. 6: 43-47. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999.

A Renaissance Marriage. The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d'Este and Francesco Gonzaga, 1490-1519. By Carolyn James. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. American Historical Review, forthcoming.

Abortion in Early Modern Italy. By John Christopoulos. I Tatti Studies in the Renaissance. Cambridge, MA.: Harvard University Press, 2021. Journal of the Social History of Medicine Vol. 35, No. 2 (2022): 684-685.

Marriage, the Church, and Its Judges in Renaissance Venice, 1420-1545. Cecilia Cristellon. Early Modern History: Society and Culture. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017, Renaissance Quarterly 72.4 (2019).

Same-Sex Marriage in Renaissance Rome. Sexuality, Identity, and Community in Early Modern Europe by Gary Ferguson (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016). The American Historical Review. Vol. 124, 3 (2019): 1159-1160.

“Venice Match.” Review of Holly S. Hurlburt. Daughter of Venice. Yale University Press, 2016 in The London Times Literary Supplement, July 20, 2016.

Spazi, poteri, diritti delle donne a Venezia in età moderna. Edited by Anna Bellavitis, Nadia Maria Filippini, Tiziana Plebani. (Verona and Bolzano: Qui Edit, 2012). Renaissance Quarterly 67.1(2014): 257-58.

Paolina’s Innocence. Child Abuse in Casanova’s Venice by Larry Wolff (Stanford, Ca: Stanford University Press, 2012). Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth. Volume 7: 1 (Winter 2014), 165-67.

Marriage in Premodern Europe: Italy and Beyond. Edited by Jacqueline Murray (Toronto, Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2012). Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2013): 118-20.

Venice’s Most Loyal City: Civic Identity in Renaissance Brescia by Stephen Bowd (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010). Speculum, The Journal of Medieval Studies 87(2012): 185-6

I tribunali del matrimonio (secoli XV-XVIII). Eds. Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni (Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 2006). Renaissance Quarterly 61 (2008): 127-128.

Secrets of Women. Gender, Generation, and the Origins of Human Dissection by Katharine Park. (New York: Zone Books, 2006). The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 28 (2008): 606-07.

Shopping in the Renaissance. Consumer Cultures in Italy, 1400-1600 by Evelyn Welch. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2005). The American Historical Review (2006): 917-918.

Trasgressioni. Seduzione, concubinato, adulterio, bigamia (XIV-XVII secolo).Eds. Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni (Bologna: Società editrice il Mulino, 2004) Renaissance Quarterly 59 (2006): 138-39.

Matrimoni di antico regime by Daniela Lombardi (Bologna: Il Mulino, 2001). Renaissance Quarterly 56 (2003): 450-454.

Time, Space, and Women’s Lives in Early Modern Europe. Eds. Anne Jacobson Schutte, Thomas Kuehn, Silvana Seidel Menchi (Kirksville, Missouri: Truman State University Press, 2001). Renaissance Quarterly 56 (2003): 214-216.

The Captain’s Concubine. Love, Honor, and Violence in Renaissance Tuscany by Donald Weinstein (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000). The Journal of Social History 35(2002): 1008-1010.

Padua under the Carrara, 1318-1405 by Benjamin G. Kohl (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998). The American Historical Review 104 (1999): 1366-67.

Marriage in Italy, 1300-1600 edited by Trevor Dean and K.J.P. Lowe (Cambridge,UK and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998). Renaissance Quarterly 52 (1999): 865-68.

Ladies Errant. Wayward Women and Social Order in Early Modern Italy by Deanna Shemek (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1998). Renaissance Quarterly.521 (1999): 865-68.

Women in the Streets. Essays on Sex and Power in Renaissance Italy by Samuel K. Cohn (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). Renaissance Quarterly 51(Winter 1998): 1341-1343.

Housecraft and Statecraft: Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600 by Dennis Romano (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). Renaissance Quarterly 51 (Winter 1998): 1341-1343.

L'intrigo dell'Onore: Poteri e istituzioni nella Repubblica di Venezia tra Cinque e Seicento by Claudio Povolo(Verona: Cierre, 1997). The Sixteenth Century Journal. The Journal of Early Modern Studies (Fall, 1998).

A Provincial Elite in Early Modern Tuscany: Family and Power in the Creation of the State by Giovanna Benadusi (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996). The Journal of Modern History 70(1998): 482-83

Provincial Families of the Renaissance. Private and Public Life in the Veneto by James Grubb (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) News on the Rialto18 (1997): 8.

Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy: Benefactors and Their Motives in Turin,1541-1789by Sandra Cavallo (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1995). The Journal of Modern History 4(1997): 866-67.

I conservatori della virtù: donne recluse nella Roma dei Papi by Angela Groppi (Rome: Laterza, 1994). The Journal of Modern History 68 (1996): 712-14.

The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice by Margaret F. Rosenthal (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992) in The Journal of the History of Sexuality 4 (1994): 630-31.

Death and Ritual in Renaissance Florence by Sharon T. Strocchia. Baltimore and London. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992). The Journal of Social History 27(1994): 848- 49.