Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Publication Award for a Manuscript in Italian Literary Studies Winners
2023
- Demetrio S. Yocum, University of Notre Dame, for Petrarch’s Penitential Psalms and Prayers (Univ. of Notre Dame Press)
2022
- Jessica Gabriel Peritz, Yale University, for The Lyric Myth of Voice: Civilizing Song in Enlightenment Italy (Univ. of California Press, 2022)
2021
- Marilyn Migiel, Cornell University, for Veronica Franco in Dialogue (Univ. of Toronto Press)
- Honorable mention: Juliet Guzzetta, Michigan State University, for The Theater of Narration: From the Peripheries of History to the Main Stages of Italy (Northwestern Univ. Press, 2021)
2020
- Melina Esse, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, for Singing Sappho: Improvisation and Authority in Nineteenth-Century Italian Opera (Univ. of Chicago Press)
- Honorable mention: Diana Garvin, University of Oregon, for Feeding Fascism: The Politics of Women's Food Work (Univ. of Toronto Press)
2019
- David G. Lummus, University of Notre Dame, for The City of Poetry: Imagining the Civic Role of the Poet in Fourteenth-Century Italy (Cambridge Univ. Press)
2018
- Andrea Moudarres, University of California, Los Angeles, for The Enemy in Italian Renaissance Epic: Images of Hostility from Dante to Tasso (Univ. of Delaware Press)
2017
- Sarah McNamer, Georgetown University, for Meditations on the Life of Christ: The Short Italian Text (Univ. of Notre Dame Press)
- Honorable mention: Gerry P. Milligan, College of Staten Island, City University of New York, for Moral Combat: Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature (Univ. of Toronto Press)
2016
- Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin College, for Measured Words: Computation and Writing in Renaissance Italy (Univ. of Toronto Press)
2014
- Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University, for Italian Fascism’s Empire Cinema (Indiana Univ. Press)
2013
- Sarah Rolfe Prodan, University of Toronto, for “Michelangelo’s Christian Mysticism: Spirituality, Poetry and Art in Sixteenth-Century Italy” (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2014)
2012
- Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia University, and Richard Lansing, Brandeis University, for “Dante’s Lyrics: Poems of Youth and the Vita Nuova”
- Honorable mention: Konrad Eisenbichler, University of Toronto, for “The Sword and the Pen: Women, Politics, and Poetry in Sixteenth-Century Siena” (Univ. of Notre Dame Press)
2011
- Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University, for “The World beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto”
- Demetrio S. Yocum, University of Notre Dame, for “Petrarch’s Humanist Writing and Carthusian Monasticism: The Secret Language of the Self”
2010
- Paola Gambarota, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for Irresistible Signs: The Genius of Language and Italian National Identity (Univ. of Toronto Press)
2009
- Kristin Phillips-Court, University of Wisconsin, Madison, for The Perfect Genre: Drama and Painting in Renaissance Italy
2007
- Lina N. Insana, University of Pittsburgh, for Arduous Tasks: Primo Levi, Translation, and the Transmission of Holocaust Testimony (Univ. of Toronto Press)
2006
- Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, Brown University, for The Pinocchio Effect: On Making Italians (1860–1920) (Univ. of Chicago Press)
2005
- Justin Steinberg, University of Chicago, for Accounting for Dante: Urban Readers and Writers in Late Medieval Italy (Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2006)
2004
- Donald Beebe, West Linn, Oregon, executive ed.; Anne Borelli, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, trans. and ed.; and Maria C. Pastore Passaro, Central Connecticut State University, trans. and ed., for The Selected Writings of Girolamo Savonarola: Religion and Politics, 1490–1498 (Yale Univ. Press, 2005)
2003
- Elizabeth Leake, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for The Reinvention of Ignazio Silone (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2003)
2002
- Theodore Cachey, Jr., University of Notre Dame, for Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land (Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 2002)
2001
- Nelson Moe, Barnard College, for The View from Vesuvius: Italian Culture and the Southern Question (Univ. of California Press, 2002)
2000
- Victoria Eulalia Kirkham, University of Pennsylvania, for Fabulous Vernacular: Boccaccio's Filocolo and the Art of Medieval Fiction (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2001)
1999
- Rebecca West, University of Chicago, for Gianni Celati: The Craft of Everyday Storytelling (Univ. of Toronto Press, 1999)
1998
- Hermann W. Haller, Queens College, City University of New York, for The Other Italy: The Literary Canon in Dialect (Univ. of Toronto Press, 1999)