John M. Najemy
Professor
Office: 318 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-6748
E-Mail: jmn4@cornell.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday: 4:30-5:30
Courses
| Fall 2012: | HIST 3510 |
Machiavelli Syllabus |
|---|---|---|
HIST 4680 |
Love and Sex in the Italian Renaissance Syllabus | |
| Spring 2013: | HIST 2271 |
Family Life in Renaissance Italy Syllabus |
HIST 3500 |
The Italian Renaissance Syllabus |
Education
Ph.D. Harvard University, 1972
B.A. Princeton University, 1965
Recent Publications and Awards
Books
(Editor and contributor) The Cambridge Companion to Machiavelli (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010).
A History of Florence, 1200-1575 (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006; paperback ed. 2008.).
(Editor and contributor) Italy in the Age of the Renaissance, 1300-1550 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Between Friends: Discourses of Power and Desire in the Machiavelli-Vettori Letters of 1513-1515 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993).
Corporatism and Consensus in Florentine Electoral Politics, 1280-1400 (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, 1982).
Articles and Essays since 1999
“Machiavelli’s Florentine Tribunes,” forthcoming.
“The Figure of Fabrizio Colonna in Machiavelli’s Art of War,” forthcoming.
“The Medieval Italian City and the Civilizing Process,” in Europa e Italia/Europe and Italy: studi in onore di Giorgio Chittolini/Studies in Honour of Giorgio Chittolini, ed. P. Guglielmotti, I. Lazzarini, and G. M. Varanini (Florence: Firenze University Press, 2011), pp. 355-69.
“Carpi, maggio 1521. Amici: Machiavelli e Guicciardini nelle guerre d’Italia,” Atlante della letteratura italiana. vol. 1. Dalle origini al Rinascimento, ed. G. Pedullà, A. De Vincentiis, and S. Luzzatto (Turin: Einaudi, 2010), pp. 774-780.
“Studi americani sulla cultura e sulla storia sociale e politica dell’Italia comunale (secc. XII-XIV),” in La civiltà comunale italiana nella storiografia internazionale, ed. Andrea Zorzi (Florence: Firenze University Press, 2008), pp. 93-115.
“The Beginnings of Florence Cathedral: A Political Interpretation,”in Arnolfo's Moment, ed. David Friedman, Julian Gardner, and Margaret Haines (Florence: Olschki, 2009), pp. 183-210.
"Machiavelli Between East and West," in From Florence to the Mediterranean and Beyond: Essays in Honour of Anthony Molho, ed. D. Ramada Curto, E. R. Dursteler, J. Kirshner, and F. Trivellato, 2 vols. (Florence: Olschki, 2009), vol. 2, pp. 127-45.
"Alberti on Love: Musings on Private Transgression and Public Discipline," in Power, Gender, and Ritual in Europe and the Americas: Essays in Memory of Richard C. Trexler, eds. P. Arnade and M. Rocke (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008), pp. 135-52.
“Occupare la tirannide’: Machiavelli, the Militia, and Guicciardini’s Accusation of Tyranny,” in Della tirannia: Machiavelli con Bartolo, ed. J. Barthas, Quaderni di Rinascimento 42 (Florence: Leo S. Olschki, 2007), pp. 75-108.
“Florentine Politics and Urban Spaces,” in Renaissance Florence: A Social History, eds. R. J. Crum and J. T. Paoletti (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), pp. 19-54, 483-91.
“Arms and Letters: The Crisis of Courtly Culture in the Wars of Italy,” in Italy and the European Powers: The Impact of War, 1500-1530, ed. C. Shaw (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2006), pp. 207-38.
“Political History and Political Thought,” in Palgrave Advances in Renaissance Historiography, ed. J. Woolfson (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004), pp. 270-97.
“[Renaissance] Political Ideas,” in A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance, ed. G. Ruggiero (Oxford: Blackwell, 2002), pp. 384-402.
“Giannozzo and His Elders: Alberti’s Critique of Renaissance Patriarchy,” in Society and Individual in Renaissance Florence, ed. W. J. Connell (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2002), pp. 51-78.
“Politics: Class and Patronage in Twentieth-Century Italian Renaissance Historiography,” in The Italian Renaissance in the Twentieth Century, ed. A. Grieco, M. Rocke, and F. Gioffredi Superbi (Florence: Leo S. Olschki and Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, 2002), pp. 119-36.
“Civic Humanism and Florentine Politics,” in Renaissance Civic Humanism, ed. James Hankins (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 75-104 (anthologized in The Italian Renaissance, in the series “Bloom’s Period Studies” [New York: Chelsea House, 2004]).
“Florence,” in The Dante Encyclopedia, ed. R. H. Lansing (New York: Garland Publishing, 2000), pp. 386-403.
“Una grande crisi dimenticata,” preface to I consigli della repubblica fiorentina: Libri fabarum XIII e XIV (1326-1331), ed. L. De Angelis (Rome: Pubblicazioni degli Archivi di Stato: 2000), pp. vii-xvi.
“Papirius and the Chickens, or Machiavelli on the Necessity of Interpreting Religion,” Journal of the History of Ideas 60 (1999): 659-81.
“The Life of Machiavelli” and “[Machiavelli] The Political Theorist,” in Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. P. F. Grendler (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999), vol. 4, pp. 1-8.
“Republicanism,” in Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, ed. P. F. Grendler (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1999), vol. 5, pp. 313-22.
Awards and Honors
Festschrift: Florence and Beyond: Culture, Society and Politics in Renaissance Italy: Essays in Honour of John M. Najemy, eds. David S. Peterson with Daniel E. Bornstein (Toronto: Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, 2008).
NEH Fellowship, 1998-99.
Visiting Professor at the Villa I Tatti, 1998-99.