Guido Ruggiero is a preeminent historian of the history of Italy, from the fourteenth to seventeenth centuries.
He is Professor of History and Cooper Fellow of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami, Emeritus.
A master of Italian archival repositories, his work has forged new paths in the historical analysis of gender, sex, crime, violence, magic, science, and everyday life and culture.
In addition to his own single-authored books, Ruggiero has edited with James Farr Historicizing Life-Writing and Egodocuments in Early Modern Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022); co-edited and translated with Laura Giannetti Five Comedies from the Italian Renaissance (Johns Hopkins, 2003) and edited The Blackwell Companion to the Renaissance (Wiley-Blackwell, 2002).
Among them are the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, the Robert Lehman Visiting Professor in Residence at Harvard’s Villa I Tatti in Florence, the Rome Scholar in Residence at the American Academy in Rome, and membership in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.