Guido Ruggiero is a notable microhistorian

Microhistory

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 and professor and chair of the University of Miami

University of Miami

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 History Department. His most notable work is Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage and Power from the End of the Renaissance which discusses tales of witchcraft and love magic in early modern Venice.

Life & career

Ruggiero was born in Danbury, Connecticut

Danbury, Connecticut

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 and grew up in Webster, New York

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, a small rural town along the old shore line of Lake Ontario

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. After earning a B.A. with a heavy focus on ancient history and philosophy at the University of Colorado

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, he went on to UCLA where as a University of California Regent's Intern Fellow he earned an M.A. (1967) and a Ph.D. (1972). As a Regent's Fellow he began his long love affair with Venice and the Venetian Archives in 1970 and has returned there regularly for research. In addition to being a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study

Institute for Advanced Study

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 in Princeton New Jersey (1981–82; 1991) and a Fellow at Harvard's Villa I Tatti

Villa I Tatti

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 in Florence, Italy (1990–1991) he has won a number of grants and fellowships including a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1990). Ruggiero regularly teaches classes on the Italian Renaissance, the new social and cultural history, and the uses of literature for history.

Works

• Violence in Early Renaissance Venice (1980)
• The Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice (1985)
• Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage and Power from the End of the Renaissance (1993)
• Machiavelli in Love: Sex, Self and Society in Renaissance Italy (2007)
• Sex and Gender in Historical Perspectives (1990)
• Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe (1991)
• History from Crime (1993), edited with Edward Muir.
• The Blackwell Companion to the Renaissance (2002), editor
• Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance (2003), edited and translated with Laura Giannetti
• Studies in the History of Sexuality (1985–2002), editor
• Encyclopedia of European Social History (2002), co-editor

See also

• Microhistory
  Microhistory
  Microhistory is the intensive historical investigation of a well defined smaller unit of research...