BSC Faculty:

Luci Fortunato
Department of History
Tillinghast Hall, Room 219
508-531-2412
lfortunato@bridgew.edu

Professor of History at Bridgewater State College, received her Ph.D. in European History from Boston College in 1989.  Her doctoral dissertation titled "The Circle of the Pear: The Political and Cultural Salon of Emilia Toscanelli Peruzzi" treats the political and cultural exchange in Florence, Italy's most important salon of the Risorgimento.

In recent years she has pursued research in Lucca, Italy and has publish ed and presented papers on a variety of aspects of Lucchese history.  Among these is an article, "Lucrezia and Her Massimiliano: A Renaissance Woman's Story," which reexamines Salvatore Bongi's study of a sixteenth-century murder case involving members of Lucca's prominent families in the light of recent microhistories.  At conferences she has deliver ed papers on legal protection for prostitutes in sixteenth-century Lucca and on popular legends, ritual and religious images associated with the pilgrimage cult of San Pellegrino dell'Alpe.  She is a founding faculty member of BSC's Renaissance Roundtable lecture series and has spoken there on Petrarch, Renaissance women's History , and on medieval and Renaissance pilgrimage routes  from Lucca to the Garfagnana. She did graduate  work at Middlebury College in Italian language and literature.  Her Humanities Master's Degree thesis took as its subject variations on the courtly love tradition in Boccaccio's Decameron and she recently read a paper on intertextuality and nineteenth-century uses of  Boccaccio's gardens at a conference in Cardiff, Wales.  Students who traveled to Lucca in 2002 participated in a session along with Dr. Fortunato De Lisle at the National Council for History Education Conference held at Saratoga Springs, N.Y. where they presented teaching materials for high school educators developed in the course of their studies in Italy. 

She has considerable experience with U.S. academic programs in Europe having taught courses and led tours to Italy numerous times; she was herself the recipient of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar award to study Petrarch in Avignon, France, and she has served as a co-director of the Bridgewater-at-Oxford Program, England for three summers.

Her major teaching responsibilities in History at the undergraduate and graduate levels at the college center on European across the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation and Early Modern periods,  European Women's History, Italian History, and Modern European Intellectual History.

FACULTY IN ITALY:

CARLA SODINI is Professor of the History of the States of Early Modern Italy and is professor of Computer Sciences and Multi-Media Applications [Storia degli Antichi Stati Italiani e di Informatica e Applicazioni multimediali] in the Political Science Department of the University of Florence, Italy.  Her recent publications include: C. SODINI, "La m ed icina nei secoli XVI e XVII e la figura del medico militare," in Giornale di Medicina Militare, anno 147, fascicolo 3-4, maggio-agosto 1997, pp. 322-330; ID.,
"La guerre de Trente Ans et l'Italie," in Nouveaux regards sur la guerre de Trente Ans, a cura del Centre d'études d'histoire de la Defense, Paris, ADDIM, 1998, pp. 37-56; ID., Vincenzio Martinelli. "Un cosmopolita toscano del '700," in Rassegna Storica Toscana, XLV (1999), n. 1, pp. 85-139; XLVI (2000), pp. 61-106; "La storia della Riforma on-line," in L'emigrazione confessionale dei Lucchesi in Europa, a cura di S. Adorni Braccesi e C. Sodini, Atti del seminario internazionale tenutosi a Lucca il 28 marzo 1998, Firenze, EDIFIR, 1999; pp. 123-139; C. SODINI, Soldati lucchesi nel '600, Lucca, M. Pacini Fazzi ed ., 2000; Frontiere e fortificazioni di frontiera (a cura di C. Sodini), Firenze, Edifir, 2001; ID., "Frontiere e fortificazioni di frontiera della repubblica di Lucca durante l'Età Moderna, in Frontiere e fortificazioni" cit., pp. 187-205; ID., "Place Woman in Equal Power: Lucretia Mott e le origini del femminismo americano," in Nuova Antologia, CXXXV (ott.-dic. 2000), pp. 326-341; CXXXVI (genn.-mar. 2001), pp. 311-326, ID, L'Ercole Tirreno. Guerra e dinastia medicea nella prima metà del '600, Firenze, Olschki, 2001, pp. 1-302; ID., Guerra e vita militare nel Secolo di ferro, Catalogo della mostra, Lucca, Ministero dei Beni culturali-Biblioteca di Stato di Lucca, Lucca, M. Pacini Fazzi ed . 2001, pp. 1-50.

Guest Lecturers:

To be announced