!!Edward Muir - Publications
__Books and Editions__
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''Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice''. Princeton:  Princeton University Press, 1981, 256pp.
''Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize'' and ''Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History''\\
Italian translation:  Il rituale civico a Venezia nel Rinascimento.  Rome:  Il Veltro Editrice, 1984.\\
Chinese translation: Shanghai: Shanghai Joint Publishing Company, forthcoming.
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''The Leopold von Ranke Manuscript Collection of Syracuse University:  The Complete Catalogue''.  Syracuse:  Syracuse University Press, 1983, 288pp.
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''Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective''.  Co-edited with Guido Ruggiero.  Selections from ''Quaderni Storici'', no. 1.  Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990, 264pp.
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''Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe''.  Co-edited with Guido Ruggiero.  Selections from Quaderni Storici, no. 2.  Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991, 240pp.
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''Mad Blood Stirring:  Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance''.  Baltimore:  The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 390pp.
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Winner of the ''Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History''\\
Reader's edition under title, ''Mad Blood Stirring:  Vendetta in Renaissance Italy''.  Baltimore:  The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.\\
Italian translation: ''Il sangue s’infuria e ribolle: La vendetta nel Friuli del Rinacimento''. Verona: Cierre edizioni, 2010.
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''History from Crime''.  Co-edited with Guido Ruggiero.  Selections from Quaderni Storici, no. 3.  Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, 236pp.
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''Ritual in Early Modern Europe.''  New Approaches in European History series.  Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press, 1997. 2%%sup nd/% edition, 2005, 332 pp.
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Italian translation:  ''Riti e rituali nell’Europa moderna''.  Milan, La Nuova Italia, 2000.
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Spanish translation:  ''Fiesta y rito en la Europa moderna''.  Madrid, Editorial Complutense, 2001.
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Excerpts reprinted in Richard M. Golden, ''Social History of Western Civilization''.  Boston:  Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999.
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Co-author with Brian Levack, Michael Maas, and Meredith Veldman, ''The West: Encounters and Transformations.''  New York:  Longman, 2004. Concise edition, 2006. 2%%sup nd/% full edition, 2007. 3rd full edition, 2011, 965pp. 4th full edition, in preparation.
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''The Culture Wars of the Late Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera''.  Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007, 192pp.
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Italian translation: ''Guerre culturali: Libertinismo e religione alla fine del Rinascimento''. Bari: Laterza, 2008.
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__Articles and Chapters__
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"The Doge as ''Primus Inter Pares'':  Ducal Interregnum Rites in Early Sixteenth-Century Venice," in ''Essays Presented to Myron P. Gilmore'', edited by Sergio Bertelli and Gloria Ramakus, 1: 145-60.  Florence:  The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 1978.
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"Images of Power:  Art and Pageantry in Renaissance Venice," ''American Historical Review'' 84 (1979): 16-52.\\
Excerpts reprinted in ''The Many Sides of History:  Readings in the Western Heritage'', vol. 1:  ''The Ancient World to Early Modern Europe'', edited by Steven Ozment and Frank M. Turner (New York:  Macmillan, 1987), 177-86, and in ''Major Problems in the History of the Italian Renaissance'', edited by Benjamin G. Kohl and Alison Andrews Smith (Lexington, Massachusetts:  D.C. Heath, 1995), 403-12.
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"Manifestazioni e cerimonie nella Venezia di Andrea Gritti," in "''Renovatio Urbis''":  ''Venezia nell' età di Andrea Gritti (1523-1538)'', edited by Manfredo Tafuri, 59-77.  Rome:  Officina Edizioni, 1984.
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"The Cannibals of Renaissance Italy," ''Syracuse Scholar'' 5 (Fall 1984): 5-14.
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"Leopold von Ranke, His Library, and the Shaping of Historical Evidence," ''Courier'' 22 (1987):  3-10.
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Co-author with Ronald Weissman, "Social and Symbolic Places in Renaissance Venice and Florence," in ''The Power of Place:  Bringing Together Geographical and Sociological Imaginations'', edited by John Agnew and James Duncan, 81-104.  Boston:  Unwin Hyman, 1989.
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"The Virgin on the Street Corner:  The Place of the Sacred in Italian Cities," in ''Religion and Culture in the Renaissance and Reformation'', edited by Steven Ozment, 25-42, Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies, vol. 11.  Kirksville, Missouri: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1989. (Winner of the Harold J. Grimm Memorial Prize)\\
Reprinted in ''The Italian Renaissance:  The Essential Readings'', edited by Paula Findlen, 151-166 (Oxford:  Blackwell, 2002) and in The Renaissance:  Italy and Abroad, edited by John Jeffries Martin, 279-296 (London: Routledge, 2003). 
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A "Commentary" in ''Art and Politics in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Italy:  1250-1500'', edited by Charles M. Rosenberg, 227-30.  Notre Dame and London:  University of Notre Dame Press, 1990.
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"Gaze and Touch:  Ritual in the Renaissance and Reformation," ''Ideas from the National Humanities Center'' 2 (Summer 1993): 4-14.
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"The Double Binds of Manly Revenge," in ''Gender Rhetorics:  Postures of Dominance and Submission in Human History'', edited by Richard C. Trexler, 65-82.  Binghamton:  Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 1994.
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"Observar les petiteses," in ''Les raons del passat:  Tendències historiorgràfiques actuals'', edited by Agustí Colomines and Vicent S. Olmos, 183-208.  Catarroja and Barcelona:  Editorial Afers, 1998 (a revised version translated into Catalan of the "Introduction:  Observing Trifles" to ''Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe'').
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"Extraterritorialità e integrazione nelle corti del tardo medioevo," in ''Origini dello Stato:  Processi di formazione statale in Italia fra medioeo ed età moderna'', edited by Giorgio Chittolini, Anthony Molho, and Pierangelo Schiera, 483-89.  Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico in Trento.  Annali dell'Istituto storico italo-germanico, Quaderno 39.  Bologna: Il Mulino, 1994.
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"Vendetta and Love in Renaissance Italy," in ''Crossed Stars:  Artistic Sources and Social Conflict in the Ballet `Romeo and Juliet''', edited by Rita Felciano and Eric Hellman, 13-18.  San Francisco:  San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum, 1994.
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"The Italian Renaissance in America," ''American Historical Review'', 100 (1995):  1095-1118.
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"Idee, riti, simboli del potere," in ''Storia di Venezia dalle origini alla caduta della Serenissima'', vol. 2: ''L'età del Comune (metà XII ca. -- fine XIII sec.)'', edited by G. Cracco and G. Ortalli.  Rome:  Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1995.
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"Le vie sacre e le vie profane di Venezia," in ''San Marco aspetti storici e agiografici:  Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Venezia, 26-29 aprile 1994'', edited by Antonio Niero, 81-96.  Venice: Marsilio, 1996.
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"The Sources of Civil Society in Italy," ''Journal of Interdisciplinary History'' 29 (1999): 379-406.
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"Introduction" to Duccio Balestracci, ''The Renaissance in the Fields:  Family Memoirs of a Fifteenth-Century Tuscan Peasant'', trans. Paolo Squatriti and Betsy Merideth.  University Park, Pennsylvania:  Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999.
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"Was There Republicanism in the Renaissance Republics?  Venice after Agnadello," in ''Venice Reconsidered:  The History and Civilization of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797'', eds. John Martin and Dennis Romano, 137-67.  Baltimore:  The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
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“The Idea of Community in Renaissance Italy,” The 2001 Josephine Waters Bennett Lecture,  ''Renaissance Quarterly'' 55 (2002):  1-18.
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“Government and Bureaucracies,” in ''A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance'', edited by Guido Ruggiero, 107-123. Oxford:  Blackwell, 2002.  
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“Modi diversi di leggere Il formaggio e i vermi,” in ''Uno storico, un mugnaio, un libro:  Carlo Ginzburg, Il formaggio e I vermi, 1976-2002'', edited by Aldo Colonnello and Andrea Del Col, 29-34.  Monreale Valcellina:  Circolo culturale Menocchio, 2002. 
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“Representations of Power in Renaissance Italy,” in ''Italy in the Renaissance (1300-1550)'', edited by John M. Najemy, 226-45. Oxford Short History of Italy. Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2004.
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“Why Venice?:  Venetian Society and the Success of Early Opera,” ''Journal of Interdisciplinary History'', 36 (2006): 331-354.
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“The Eye of the Procession:  Ritual Ways of Seeing in the Renaissance,” 129-153 in ''Ceremonial Culture in the Pre-Modern World'', edited by Nicholas Howe. Notre Dame:  University of Notre Dame Press, 2007.
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“In ''Some'' Neighbors We Trust: On the Exclusion of Women from the Public in Renaissance Italy,” 271-90 in ''Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance Italy, Essays in Honour of John M. Najemy'', edited by David S. Peterson and Daniel E. Bornstein. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008.
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“Trexleriana: An Introduction,” 19-27 in ''Public Life, Gender, and Private Conduct across the Early Modern and Modern World: Essays in Honour of Richard C. Trexler'', edited by Peter Arnade and Michael Rocke. Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008.
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“Presence and Representation in Italian Civic Rituals,” 81-97 in ''La ville à la Renaissance: Espaces—Reprèsentations—Pouvoirs'', edited by Gèrald Chaix. Paris: Honoré Champion Éditeur, 2008.
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“Impertinent Meddlers in State Building: An Anti-War Movement in Seventeenth-Century Italy,” in ''Europa e Italia: Studi in onore di Giorgio Chittolini'', eds. Paola Guglielmotti, Isabella Lazzarini, and Gian Maria Varnanini. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2011. Pp. 343-354.
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“An Evening at the Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice,” in ''Oxford Handbook of the New Cultural History of Music'', edited by Jane Fulcher. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Pp. 335-353.
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“The Anthropology of Venice,” in ''Handbook of Venetian History'', 1400-1600, edited by Eric Dursteler. Leiden: Brill, in press.
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“La Patria del Friuli e della Repubblica di Venezia” in ''Usage de l’histoire et pratiques politiques en Italie, du Moyen Age aux temps modernes: autour de la notion de réemploi'', eds. Caroline Callard, Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, and Alain Tallon. Paris: Presses de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, forthcoming.
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“Venice, Rome, and Garry Wills,” ''The Horror of War and the Hope for Peace: Essays in Honor of Garry Wills'', ed. Kenneth L. Vaux, forthcoming.
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__Encyclopedia Entries__
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"Coronations" and "Microhistory" in ''Encyclopedia of Social History'', ed. Peter N. Stearns.  New York:  Garland, 1994.
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"Microhistory or microstoria" in ''A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing'', ed. D.R. Woolf.  New York:  Garland, 1998.
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"Carnival," "Ritual, Civic," and "Violence" in ''The Encyclopedia of the Renaissance'', ed. Paul F. Grendler.  New York:  Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
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__Reviews and Review Essays__
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Richard Tilden Rapp, Industry and Economic Decline in Seventeenth-Century Venice and Renaissance Venice, edited by J.R. Hale, reviewed in ''American Historical Review'' 82 (1977): 140-41.
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Gene Brucker, The Civic World of Early Renaissance Florence, reviewed in ''The Sixteenth-Century Journal'' 10 (1979): 108-109.
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"New Light on Old Numbers:  The Political and Cultural Implications of Les Toscans et leurs familles," review essay in ''The Journal of Interdisciplinary History'' 11 (1981): 477-85.
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Ronald F.E. Weissman, Ritual Brotherhood in Renaissance Florence, reviewed in ''American Historical Review'' 87 (1982): 1416-17.
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Samuel Kline Cohn, Jr., The Laboring Classes in Renaissance Florence, reviewed in ''Labor History'' 25 (1984): 302-305.
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Richard C. Trexler, Public Life in Renaissance Florence, reviewed in ''Catholic Historical Review'' 70 (1984): 303-305.
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Aldo De Maddalena, Dalla città al borgo:  Avvio di una metamorfosi economica e sociale nella Lombardia spagnola, reviewed in ''Journal of Interdisciplinary History'' 15 (1984): 134-36.
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Brian Pullan, The Jews of Europe and the Inquisition of Venice, 1550-1670, reviewed in ''The American Historical Review'' 89 (1984): 725.
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Richard J. Goy, Chioggia and the Villages of the Venetian Lagoon:  Studies in Urban History, reviewed in ''The Journal of Interdisciplinary History'' 18 (1987):  144-46.
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Rona Goffen, Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice:  Bellini, Titian, and the Franciscans, reviewed in ''Renaissance Quarterly'' 40 (1987):  331-34.
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Donald Queller, The Venetian Patriciate:  Reality versus Myth, reviewed in ''Renaissance Quarterly'' 41 (1988): 288-91.
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James S. Grubb, Firstborn of Venice:  Vicenza in the Early Renaissance State, reviewed in ''Speculum'' 65 (1990): 678-80.
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Carlo Ginzburg, Clues, Myths, and Historical Method, reviewed in ''Journal of Social History'' 25 (1991): 123-25.
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Edoardo Salzano, ed., An Atlas of Venice; Manfredo Tafuri, Venice and the Renaissance; and Richard J. Goy, Venetian Vernacular Architecture, review essay in ''Design Book Review'' 20 (Spring 1991): 39-41.
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Gábor Klaniczay, The Uses of Supernatural Power:  The Transformation of Popular Religion in Medieval and Early-Modern Europe, reviewed in ''Critical Review of Books in Religion'', 1992 5 (1993): 398-99.
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"All the World's a Stage . . .":  Art and Pageantry in the Renaissance and Baroque, edited by Barbara Wisch and Susan Scott Munshower, reviewed in ''Renaissance Quarterly'' 45 (1992): 560-62.
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Daniel Waley, Siena and the Sienese in the Thirteenth Century and Martha D. Pollack, Turin, 1564-1680:  Urban Design, Military Culture, and the Creation of the Absolutist Capital, reviewed in ''The Journal of Interdisciplinary History'' 24 (1993): 143-45.
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Élisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, "Sopra le acque salse:"  Espaces, pouvoir et société à Venise à la fin du Moyen Age, 2 vols., reviewed in ''Speculum'' 69 (1994): 1150-52.
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R. Po-Chia Hsia, Trent 1475:  Stories of a Ritual Murder Trial and David Gentilcore, From Bishop to Witch:  The System of the Sacred in Early Modern Terra d'Otranto, reviewed in ''The Journal of Modern History'' 67 (1995): 182-85.
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Claudio Povolo, Il romanziere e l'archivista:  Da un processo veneziano del '600 all'anonimo manoscritto dei Promessi Sposi, reviewed in ''The Journal of Modern History'' 67 (1995): 961-62.
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Anthony Molho, Marriage Alliance in Late Medieval Florence, reviewed in ''The Journal of Interdisciplinary History'' 27 (1996): 320-21.
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Matteo Casini, I gesti del principe:  La festa politica a Firenze e Venezia in età rinascimentale, reviewed in ''New on the Rialto'', no. 18 (1997):  6-7.
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Steven A. Epstein, Genoa and the Genoese:  958-1528, reviewed in ''The Journal of Interdisciplinary History ''28 (1997): 280-81.
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Claudio Povolo, L'intrigo dell'Onore:  Poteri e istituzioni nella Repubblica di Venezia tra Cinque e Seicento, reviewed in ''Renaissance Quarterly'' 51 (1998): 1345-46.
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James E. Shaw, The Justice of Venice: Authorities and Liberties in the Urban Economy, 1550-1700, reviewed in ''Sixteenth Century Journal'' 38 (2007): 1178-79.
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Iain Fenlon, ''The Ceremonial City: History, Memory and Myth in Renaissance Venice'', reviewed in ''Renaissance Quarterly'' 61 (2008): 1233-12134.
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Thomas Kuehn, ''Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence'', reviewed in ''Journal of Interdisciplinary History'' 39 (2009): 580-81.
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Joanne M. Ferraro, ''Nefarious Crimes, Contested Justice: Illicit Sex and Infanticide in the Republic of Venice, 1557–1789'', reviewed in ''Eighteenth-Century Studies'' ''44 (2011)'': 305-306.