PROF. FABRIZIO RICCIARDELLI

PROF. FABRIZIO RICCIARDELLI

Department of History

Georgetown University

Villa Le Balze

Via Vecchia Fiesolana, 26

50014 Fiesole (Fi), Italy

Tel: 0039/(0)55/59208

Fax: 0039/(0)55/599584


e-mail: fricciardelli@villalebalze.org

e-mail: fab_ricciardelli@hotmail.com

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Employment:
Affiliated Professor of History, Georgetown University at Villa Le Balze, 2005 to present.
Lecturer, Sarah Lawrence College, Florence Program, 2004-05.

Degrees:
Ph.D., History, University of Warwick (UK), 2004

Dissertation: The Politics of Exclusion in Florence, 1215-1434. Supervisor: Professor Humfrey Butters. Examiners: Professor John E. Law (University of Wales) and Dr Luca Molà (University of Warwick).

Postgraduate degree in High School Teaching (subjects: Italian Literature and History), Università di Siena. 1998.

Perfezionamento (Postgraduate degree in History), Università di Firenze, 1997.
Advanced Degree in Pedagogical Studies, Università di Siena, 1996.
Laurea, Medieval History, Università di Firenze, 1993.

Dissertation: Il Libro del Chiodo: le condanne del 1302. supervisor: Prof. Giovanni Cherubini.

Grants and Awards (External):

Research scholarship at the Department of History, Università di Firenze, 1998-99: Assignment of Florentine Citizenship to Foreigners (1350-1450).
Memberships:
Member of the Centro di Studi “Europa delle Corti”, from 2006 to present.
Publications - Books:

The Politics of Exclusion in Early Renaissance Florence (Tunhout: Brepols, 2007).
Publications – Articles and Book Chapters:

“Introduzione”, in I luoghi del sacro. Il sacro e la città fra Medioevo ed Età moderna, International Meeting at Georgetown University at Villa Le Balze (12-13 June 2006), ed. by Fabrizio Ricciardelli (Florence: Polistampa, 2008), pp. 11-18.

“La distruzione della memoria politica a Firenze nel Rinascimento”, in I luoghi del sacro. Il sacro e la città fra Medioevo ed Età moderna, International Meeting at Georgetown University at Villa Le Balze (12-13 June 2006), ed. by Fabrizio Ricciardelli (Florence: Polistampa, 2008), pp. 137-149.

“Aspetti della propaganda politica tra Firenze e le città dominate nel tardo Medioevo”, I ‘Fochi’ della San Giovanni, XXXIV, 2 (2008), pp. 14-21.
“Le forme rituali della politica tra Firenze e le città dominate (secc. XIV-XV)”, Annali Aretini, XIII (2005), pp. 17-30.

“L’esclusione politica a Firenze e Lapo da Castiglionchio”, in Antica possessione con belli costumi. Due giornate di studio su Lapo da Castiglionchio il Vecchio (Firenze-Pontassieve, 3-4 ottobre 2003). Con la nuova edizione dell’epistola al figlio Bernardo, ed. by Franek Sznura (Florence: ASKA, 2005), pp. 46-61.

“Propaganda politica e rituali urbani nella Arezzo del tardo Medioevo”, Archivio Storico Italiano, CLXII (2004), pp. 233-258.

“Exile as evidence of civic identity in Florence in the time of Dante: some examples”, Reti Medievali - Rivista, V (2004), 1, url: http://www.dssg.unifi.it/_RM/rivista/saggi/Ricciardelli.htm, pp. 1-15.

“Notes on the Causes and Consequences of Political Exclusion in Late Medieval Italy”, Italian History and Culture, Yearbook of Georgetown University, 8 (2002), pp. 35-50.

“La città comunale italiana: forme, demografia, organizzazione politica”, Annali Aretini, VIII-IX (2000-2001), pp. 323-348.

“Dal Libro del Chiodo: i regesti delle condanne del 1302”, Argomenti Storici, V (1998), pp. 7-30.

Publications – Edited Books:

Il Libro del Chiodo (Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo, 1998).
I luoghi del sacro. Il sacro e la città fra Medioevo ed Età moderna, ed. by Fabrizio Ricciardelli (Florence: Polistampa, 2008).

Publications – Reviews and Short Notes:

Review of G.P.G. Scharf, Borgo San Sepolcro a metà del Quattrocento (Florence: Olschki, 2003), pp. 347, in Archivio Storico Italiano, CLXIII (2005), pp. 169-171.

Review of Identità italiana e cattolicesimo. Una prospettiva storica, a cura di C. Mozzarelli, (Rome: Carocci, 2003), pp. 7-494, in Archivio Storico Italiano, CLXII (2004), pp. 406-408.

Review of A. A. Settia, Rapine, assedi, battaglie. La guerra nel Medioevo (Rome and Bari: Laterza, 2002), pp. 3-358, in Archivio Storico Italiano, CLXII (2004), pp. 147-150.

Review of L. Tanzini, Statuti e legislazione a Firenze dal 1355 al 1415. Lo Statuto cittadino del 1409 (Florence: Olschki, 2004), pp. 332, in Quaderni medievali, 58 (2004), pp. 311-313.

Review of Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence, ed. by W. Connell (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2002), pp. XII-453, in Archivio Storico Italiano, CLXII (2004), pp. 400-402.
Review of Sergio Tognetti, Da Figline a Firenze. Ascesa economica e politica della famiglia Serristori (secoli XIV-XVI) (Florence: Opus Libri, 2003), pp. 233, in Quaderni medievali, 56 (2003), pp. 288-291.

Review of Politica e cultura nelle repubbliche italiane dal Medioevo all’Età moderna. Firenze, Genova, Lucca, Siena, Venezia (Rome: Istituto Storico Italiano per l’Età moderna e Contemporanea), 2001, pp. XV-360, in Archivio Storico Italiano, CLXI (2003), pp. 577-580.

Review of Sergio Tognetti, Un’industria di lusso al servizio del grande commercio. Il mercato dei drappi serici e della seta nella Firenze del Quattrocento (Florence: Olschki, 2002), pp. 218, in Quaderni medievali, 54 (2002), pp. 338-339.

Review of Steven A. Epstein, Speaking of Slavery. Color, Ethnicity, and Human Bondage in Italy (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2001), pp. XI-215, in Archivio Storico Italiano, CLX (2002), pp. 151-153.
Review of Antonella Astorri, La Mercanzia a Firenze nella prima metà del Trecento. Il potere dei grandi mercanti (Florence: Olschki, 1998), pp. XII-244, in Ricerche Storiche, XXX (2000), pp. 403-405.
Upcoming Publications:
“Giannozzo Manetti, un intellettuale al potere nell’Italia del Rinascimento”, in Dignitas et excellentia hominis, ed. by Stefano U. Baldassarri (Florence: Le Lettere, 2008), pp. 287-308.

General editor with Samuel K. Cohn Jr., Marcello Fantoni, and Franco Franceschi of Symbols and Rituals in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy (Turnhout: Brepols, 2009/10).

Meetings organization:
I luoghi del sacro. Il sacro e la città fra Medioevo ed Età moderna, International Meeting at Georgetown University at Villa Le Balze, Florence, 12-13 June-2006.

Upcoming meetings organization:

The Culture of Violence. Popular Revolts, Protests, and Social Movements in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy, International Meeting at Georgetown University at Villa Le Balze, Florence, May 2010 (with Samuel K. Cohn Jr.).

Conference papers and invited lectures:
3 July-2008, Communication among exiles in late medieval Florence, lecture delivered at the School of Advanced Study, University of London, Institute of Historical Research (IHR), London 2-4 July 2008.

3 April-2008, Beyond the Sacred Space in Renaissance Italy, paper delivered at the Renaissance Society of America in Chicago (3-5 April 2008).
10 December-2007, The Space Beyond the Territory: Deprivation of Political Rights in Renaissance Florence, lecture delivered at Georgetown University, Washington D.C., The Georgetown University Department of History and the Medieval Studies Program, 2007 Fall Faculty Seminar Series Presentation.
8-June-2007, Politics and Economy in Renaissance Florence, lecture delivered at the Norwegian School of Management BI of Oslo, Department of Innovation and Economic Organization, Centre for Business History, Bachelor Program Course organized by Sverre Knutsen (Associate Professor) on The Development of the Market Economy.

10-February-2004, What was the Renaissance, lecture delivered at Sarah Lawrence College, New York.

8-February-2004, Italian City-States at the time of Dante, lecture delivered at Sarah Lawrence College, New York.

4-February-2004, The Politics of Exclusion in Early Renaissance Florence, lecture delivered at The British Institute of Florence.

4-April-2003, I rituali urbani nel Rinascimento, lecture delivered at the Fraternita dei Laici of Arezzo.

29-March-2003, discussion leader on Teaching the Unteachable: Italian History Before the Risorgimento at the Symposium on Teaching History and Social Sciences in AACUPI Programs: Machiavelli and Beyond organized by California State University International Program in Florence for the Associations of American College and University Programs in Italy (AACUPI).

29-January-2002, Causes and Consequences of Political Exclusion in Late Medieval Italy, paper presented at Georgetown University at Villa Le Balze, Florence.
5-December-2001, Political Ban and Legal Procedures in the Italian City-Republics, paper presented at the University of Warwick in Venice, Thirty-fifth Annual Symposium (5th – 6th December 2001).
28-August-2001, Exile as Evidence of Civic Identity in Florence in the Time of Dante, paper presented at the University of Durham during the Conference Meeting on Political Identities in Britain and Europe (1200-1500) (27th – 28th August 2001).

8-July-1999, Università di Firenze, at the seminar of Antichità e istituzioni medievali (Prof. Jean-Claude Maire Vigueur), lecture on L'esilio politico a Firenze nel XIV e XV secolo [cf. www.storia.unifi.it/_PIM/AIM/seminari9900.htm].
10-March-1999, La città comunale italiana: forme, demografia, organizzazione politica , paper presented at the Fraternita dei Laici di Arezzo.


Present Research Interests:

Political, Social and Cultural History of Late Medieval, Renaissance and Early Modern Italy

Rituality in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy

The Political Use of Language and Images in Renaissance Italy

The Pedagogical Role of Public Execution: Criminal Justice and Crime in Renaissance and Early Modern Italy

History of Concepts
Present Research Project:

Forms of Political Propaganda in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy.
Upcoming Reviews:
Patrizia Meli and Sergio Tognetti, Il Principe e il mercante nella Toscana del Quattrocento. Il Magnifico Signore di Piombino Jacopo Appiani e le aziende Maschiani di Pisa (Florence: Olschki, 2006), pp. XII-206: Nuova Rivista Storica.

Other publications:
L’Islam. La religione, i popoli, le civiltà, Milano, Mondadori, 2000; German translation Der Islam, München, Bertelsmann Verlag, 2000; Spanish translation El Islam. Una religión, muchas civilizaciones (Madrid: Editex, 2000) [with Roberto Mancini].

The Journey of Faith. The Jubilee from Its Origins to the Present (San Jose, New York, Lincoln, and Shanghai: iUniverse.com, Inc., 2000).
Il viaggio della fede: il giubileo dalle origini ad oggi (Florence: Bulgarini, 1999).

L’agricoltura. Il servo casato come bene immobile, in Millennio. La vita quotidiana nel Mille, nel Duemila e nel Futur (Livorno: Finegil-Il Tirreno, 1999), pp. 20-21.
La casa. Solo il camino, per cucinare e far luce, in Millennio. La vita quotidiana nel Mille, nel Duemila e nel Futuro (Livorno: Finegil-Il Tirreno, 1999), pp. 68-69.

La legge. Volterra proibì ricchi doni alle mogli, in Millennio. La vita quotidiana nel Mille, nel Duemila e nel Futuro (Livorno: Finegil-Il Tirreno, 1999), pp. 204-205.

Le paure. E al calar del sole ecco il lupo cattivo, in Millennio. La vita quotidiana nel Mille, nel Duemila e nel Futuro (Livorno: Finegil-Il Tirreno, 1999), pp. 276-277.
Enciclopedia del Millennio, 1, secoli XI-XIV, in Panorama (Milan: Mondadori-Informatica, 1999).

Textbooks:
Voci dell’Uomo e della Storia, 2 vols., 1. Dall’Antico regime alla fine dell’Ottocento; 2. Dal Novecento ad oggi (Florence: Bulgarini, 2008) [with Franco Franceschi and Alessio Quercioli].

Storia e Storie. Dalle Origini ai Nostri Giorni, 6. vols. (Florence, Bulgarini, 2001) [with Elio Bonifazi and Franco Franceschi].
Tecniche, Lavoro, Società, 2. vols. (Florence: Bulgarini, 2000) [with Elio Bonifazi and Franco Franceschi].

Storia e Cultura Materiale, 2 vols. (Florence: Bulgarini, 2000) [with Elio Bonifazi and Franco Franceschi].

Tematiche di Storia Economica e Sociale, 2 vols. (Florence: Bulgarini, 1998) [with Elio Bonifazi and Franco Franceschi].

Other teaching:
Italian History from the Middle Ages to the Age of the Enlightenment (1300-1700), Kent State University in Florence

History and Anthropology, Sarah Lawrence College, Florence Program.
History of Medieval and Renaissance Florence, Richmond University in Florence.
Renaissance Italy: Its Origins, Nature, and Contribution to Modern Europe, Rutgers State University, Florence.

Modern Italian History, University of Arizona, Florence Program.
History of Renaissance Political Thought, Assumption College, Florence Program.