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and Trasgressioni: seduzione, concubinato, adulterio, bigamia (XIV–XVIII
secolo) (Bologna, 2004). Most recently her research has focused on 16th-
century Italian religious history and on Erasmus and his work.
Edward Muir (Rutgers University, 1975) is the Clarence L. Ver Steeg Profes-
sor in the Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. He is a special-
ist in the history of Renaissance Italy. His publications include Ritual in
Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 1997) and The Culture Wars of the Late
Renaissance: Skeptics, Libertines, and Opera (Cambridge, Mass., 2005). He
is currently writing a book on trust and mistrust in Italy, 1350–1650.
Luciano Pezzolo (Bocconi–Milano, 1990) is associate professor of early
modern history in the Department of Humanities of the Università Ca’
Foscari Venezia. He is a specialist in the economic and financial history
of medieval and early modern Italy, and his publications include Una
finanza d’ancien régime. La repubblica di Venezia fra XV e XVIII secolo
(Naples, 2006) and L’economia d’antico regime (Rome, 2005). He is cur-
rently working on a monograph on the financial and military institutions
of late medieval and early modern Italy entitled Mars and Pluto.
Claudio Povolo (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, 1976) is professor of the
history of political institutions at the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia. His
research focuses primarily on the history of justice and society in Venice
and the Mediterranean. Among his many publications, the most recent
include L’uomo che pretendeva l’onore: Storia di Bortolamio Pasqualin da
Malo (Venice, 2010) and Il movente. Il giudice Bernardo Marchesini e il pro-
cesso per l’omicidio di Giovanni Rama (Verona, 2011). He is currently work-
ing on a monograph on the history of banditry in the Republic of Venice
in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Benjamin Ravid (Harvard University, 1973) is professor emeritus of Jewish
history at Brandeis University. He is a specialist on the Jews of Venice, and
his publications include (with Robert C. Davis) The Jews of Early Modern
Venice (Baltimore, 2001) and Studies on the Jews of Venice, 1382–1797 (Alder-
shot, 2003). He is currently completing a history of the Jews of Venice.
Margaret F. Rosenthal (Yale University, 1985) is professor of Italian at
the University of Southern California. She is a specialist in early modern
women writers of Venice, and the clothing and dress of early modern Italy.