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Kenneth Gouwens

Associate Professor

 

Office: Wood Hall, Room 318
Phone: (860) 486-3750
Fax: (860) 486-0641
Email:clement.7@uconn.edu

Areas of Specialty

European Cultural and Intellectual history, 1300-1600; Italian Renaissance

Current Research Interests

Cultural history of Italy, 1494-1530; Pope Clement VII (Giulio de'Medici); distinctions drawn between humans and simians in the Renaissance and in our own era

 
Selected Publications

“Human Exceptionalism,” in The Renaissance World, ed. John Jeffries Martin (London: Routledge, 2007), 415–34.

ed., with Christopher S. Celenza, Humanism and Creativity in the Renaissance: Essays in Honor of Ronald G. Witt (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006), including "Humanist Culture and its Malcontents: Alcionio, Sepúlveda, and the Consequences of Translating Aristotle," pp. 347–80, co-authored with C. S. Celenza

“L’Umanesimo al tempo di Pierio Valeriano: la cultura locale, la fama, e la Respublica litterarum nella prima metà del Cinquecento,” in Bellunesi e Feltrini tra Umanesimo e Rinascimento: filologia, erudizione e biblioteche, ed. Paolo Pellegrini (Rome and Padua: Antenore, 2006), 3-10

ed., with Sheryl E. Reiss, The Pontificate of Clement VII: History, Politics, Culture (Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2005)

ed., The Italian Renaissance: The Essential Sources (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004)

Remembering the Renaissance: Humanist Narratives of the Sack of Rome (Leiden, Boston, and Cologne: Brill, 1998).

"Perceiving the Past: Understanding Renaissance Humanism after the `Cognitive Turn,'" The American Historical Review 103:1 (February, 1998): 55-82.

"Discourses of Vulnerability: Pietro Alcionio's Orations on the Sack of Rome," Renaissance Quarterly 50:1 (Spring, 1997): 38-77.

"Life-Writing and the Theme of Cultural Decline in Valeriano's De litteratorum infelicitate," The Sixteenth Century Journal 27:1 (Spring, 1996): 87-96.

"Ciceronianism and Collective Identity: Defining the Boundaries of the Roman Academy, 1525," The Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 23:2 (Spring, 1993) : 173-95.

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