A Review of “On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy: Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards“

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Paolo Pucci

Paolo Pucci is Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Vermont. He received his bachelor of arts degree in German literature from the University of Florence and his PhD in Italian from Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ). He has published on courtesans in sixteenth-century Italy, both as victims of derogatory literary attacks and authors of poetry and letters. His interest in minorities has led him to investigate and publish on the depiction of homosexuals in the early modern novella as well. In addition, his research deals with Muslim–Christian relations in the early modern novella tradition, particularly in Matteo Bandello's collection. Most recently, he has published on Maria Savorgnan's letters to Pietro Bembo and on Fusco's treatise, “La vedova del Fusco.”