Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies Winners
2022
- Maria Anna Mariani, University of Chicago, for Italian Literature in the Nuclear Age: A Poetics of the Bystander (Oxford Univ. Press, 2022)
- Honorable mention: Elsa Filosa, Vanderbilt University, for Boccaccio’s Florence: Politics and People in His Life and Work (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2022)
2020
- Victoria de Grazia, Columbia University, for The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy (Harvard Univ. Press, 2020)
2018
- Martina Piperno, KU Leuven, Belgium, for Rebuilding Post-revolutionary Italy: Leopardi and Vico’s New Science (Voltaire Foundation, 2018)
- Diego Pirillo, University of California, Berkeley, for The Refugee-Diplomat: Venice, England, and the Reformation (Cornell Univ. Press, 2018)
2016
- Serenella Iovino, University of Turin, for Ecocriticism and Italy: Ecology, Resistance, and Liberation (Bloomsbury, 2016)
- Honorable mention: William J. Kennedy, Cornell University, for Petrarchism at Work: Contextual Economies in the Age of Shakespeare (Cornell Univ. Press, 2016)
- Honorable mention: Rhiannon Noel Welch, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, for Vital Subjects: Race and Biopolitics in Italy, 1860–1920 (Liverpool Univ. Press, 2016)
2014
- Nick Wilding, Georgia State University, for Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2014)
2012
- Alessia Ricciardi, Northwestern University, for After La Dolce Vita: A Cultural Prehistory of Berlusconi’s Italy (Stanford Univ. Press, 2012)
2010
- Michelangelo Sabatino, University of Houston, for Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2010)
- Honorable mention: Alessandro Polcri, Fordham University, for Luigi Pulci e la Chimera: Studi sull’allegoria nel Morgante (Società Editrice Fiorentina, 2010)
2008
- Joseph Luzzi, Bard College, for Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy (Yale Univ. Press, 2008)
2006
- Cristina Della Coletta, University of Virginia, for World's Fairs Italian Style: The Great Exhibitions in Turin and Their Narratives, 1860–1915 (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2006)
2004
- Raymond B. Waddington, University of California, Davis, for Aretino's Satyr: Sexuality, Satire, and Self-Projection in Sixteenth-Century Literature and Art (Univ. of Toronto Press, 2004)
- Honorable mention: Ingrid D. Rowland, University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, for The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of Renaissance Forgery (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2004)
2002
- Lina Bolzoni, Scuola Normale di Pisa, for La rete delle immagini: Predicazione in volgare dalle origini a Bernardino da Siena (Giulio Einaudi Editore, 2002)
2000
- Gaetana Marrone-Puglia, Princeton University, for The Gaze and the Labyrinth: The Cinema of Liliana Cavani (Princeton Univ. Press, 2000)
*1998–99
- Margaret Brose, University of California, Santa Cruz, for Leopardi Sublime (Re Enzo Editrice, 1998)
- Nancy L. Canepa, Dartmouth College, for From Court to Forest: Giambattista Basile's Lo cunto de li cunti and the Birth of the Literary Fairy Tale (Wayne State Univ. Press, 1999)
*1996–97
- Barbara Spackman, University of California, Berkeley, for Fascist Virilities: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Social Fantasy in Italy (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1996)
- Honorable mention: Dennis Looney, University of Pittsburgh, for Compromising the Classics: Romance Epic Narrative in the Italian Renaissance (Wayne State Univ. Press, 1996)
*1994–95
- Robert S. Dombroski, City University of New York and University of Connecticut, Storrs, for Properties of Writing: Ideological Discourse in Modern Italian Fiction (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1994)
- Karen Pinkus, University of Southern California, for Bodily Regimes: Italian Advertising under Fascism (Univ. of Minnesota Press, 1995)
*During 1996–2000, the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies was awarded jointly with the Howard R. Marraro Prize, which is now awarded separately in even-numbered years.