Dennis Romano

 

Department of History                                              507 Cumberland Avenue

Syracuse University                                                   Syracuse, New York 13210

145 Eggers Hall                                                         315-472-9887
Syracuse, New York 13244                                       dromano@maxwell.syr.edu

315-443-2210                                                                                                                            

 

Education:

Ph.D., History, Michigan State University, September 1981.

            Dissertation:  San Giacomo dall’Orio:  Parish Life in Fourteenth-Century

            Venice.”

 

M.A.,  History, Rice University, May 1975.

            Thesis:  “The Venetian Rock Crystal Workers’ Guild.”

 

B.A.,   History, Wake Forest University, May 1973, magna cum laude.

 

Employment:

            Current   Professor of History and Fine Arts, Syracuse University, Syracuse,

   New York. 

           

2001-02    Lecturer, Summer Humanities Institute, “The Public and Private

in Medieval Venice,” Venice International University, Venice, Italy.

           

            2001       Awarded courtesy appointment in Department of Fine Arts.

.                                              

1991-97    Associate Professor of History, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y. 

 

1987-91    Assistant Professor of History, Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.

 

1986-87    Program Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities,

Division of Research Programs.

 

1984-87    Assistant Professor of History, University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS.

 

1982-83    Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI.

 

 

Publications:

            Books:

            Patricians and Popolani:  The Social Foundations of the Venetian Renaissance

            State (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987). 

           

                Patrizi e popolani:  La societa` veneziana nel Trecento (Bologna, Societa`

            Editrice il Mulino, 1993).  Italian edition of above.

 

Books (continued)

Housecraft and Statecraft:  Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1600

            (Baltimore:  The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).

 

            Editor (with John Martin), Venice Reconsidered:  The History and Civilization

of an Italian City-State, 1297-1797 (Baltimore:  Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000).  Paperback edition 2002.

 

The Image of Venice:  A Life of Doge Francesco Foscari, c. 1374-1457, under contract with Yale University Press.             

 

            Articles:

 

            “Doge Francesco Foscari in America,” Studi Veneziani, forthcoming.

           

            Vecchi, poveri, e impotenti: The Elderly in Renaissance Venice,” in Marginal

            Groups in Renaissance Italy, ed. Stephen Milner (Minneapolis:  University of

            Minnesota Press, forthcoming).

 

            “City-State and Empire:  Historical Overview,” in Venice and its Empire, ed.

            Peter Humfrey, for the series Art Centers of the Renaissance (New York:

            Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

 

            “Concluding Remarks,” in The Art Market in Italy, 15th-17th Centuries/Il Mercato

            dell’arte in Italia, secc. xv-xvii, ed. Marcello Fantoni, Louisa Matthew, and Sara

            Matthews-Grieco (Ferrara:  Franco Cosimo Panini Editore, 2003), 445-448.

           

Sepe ben guidar la optima constelation sua:  Francesco Foscari as Procurator of

            San Marco,” Studi Veneziani n.s. 36 (1998): 37-55.

 

            “L’assistenza e la beneficenza,” in Storia di Venezia vol. 5 Il Rinascimento: 

Societa` ed economia, eds. Ugo Tucci and Alberto Tenenti (Rome: Trecani, 1996): 355-406.

 

            “The Gondola as a Marker of Station in Venetian Society,” Renaissance Studies:

            8 (1994): 359-374.

 

            “Aspects of Patronage in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Venice,” Renaissance

            Quarterly 46 (1993): 712-733.

 

            “The Regulation of Domestic Service in Renaissance Venice,” Sixteenth Century

            Journal  22 (1991): 661-677.

 

            “Gender and the Urban Geography of Renaissance Venice,” Journal of Social

            History 23 (1989): 339-353.

           

           

“Struttura familiare e legami matrimoniali a Venezia nel Trecento,” Ricerche        Venete 1 (1989): 131-165.

 

“The Aftermath of the Querini-Tiepolo Conspiracy in Venice,” Stanford Italian

            Review 7 (1987): 147-160.

 

            “Charity and Community in Renaissance Venice,” Journal of Urban History 11

            (1984):  63-82.

 

            Quod sibi fiat gratia:  Adjustment of Penalties and the Exercise of Influence in

            Early Renaissance Venice,” Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies 13

            (1983): 151-168.

 

Current Research:

            A biography of Doge Francesco Foscari

Terraferma expansion and the crisis of Venetian republicanism

            Envy in late medieval Italy

 

Grants, Awards, and Honors:

 

            2003      Folger Institute, Folger Shakespeare Library, Grant-in-Aid.

 

            2002      Elected “Socio Straniero” (Foreign Member) of Ateneo Veneto (the

                          Venetian Athenaeum).

 

2001-02 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow

                          (deferred from 2000-01).

 

            2000-01 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, The  National

 Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, NC.

 

1997        Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Award (to support the

  conference  Venice Reconsidered” held at Syracuse University in

  September 1997 – Dennis Romano and John Martin, conference

  organizers).

 

1995    Trinity College Cesare Barbieri Prize (awarded by The Society for

Italian Historical Studies).

          

1990     Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

    (For excellence in teaching, research, and service by a junior faculty

    member).

 
1990    National Endowment for the Humanities, Travel to Collections

 Grant.

 

1988-9    Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation Fellow in Venice.

 

            1985     National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend.

 

1983     American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid.

 

1981-2  Charles Phelps Taft Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cincinnati.

 

1979-80 Fulbright Dissertation Fellow in Italy: Delmas Foundation Fellow

              in Venice.

 

1973      Phi Beta Kappa, Wake Forest University.

 

Papers and Lectures:

 

                Paper, “Bernardo Giustinian’s Funeral Oration for Doge Francesco Foscari,”

                        to be presented in a special session in honor of the late Patricia

                        Labalme at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America,

                        New York, NY, April 2004.

           

            Commentator for the session “Opera in Seventeenth-Century Venice,” part of

                        a special conference sponsored by the Journal of Interdisciplinary History

                        entitled, “Opera and Society,” to be held at Princeton, NJ, March 2004.

 

Invited Lecture, “The Doge De-sexed:  Venetian Rulership and Notions

of Masculinity,” to be presented at the annual meeting of the

New England Renaissance Conference, Storrs, CT, October 2003 and

at the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, Pittsburgh, PA,

November, 2003.          

               

                Lecture, “Portraits of Venice through Time,” presented at the Smithsonian

                        Institution, Washington, D.C. March 2003; and to be presented at

the Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY, October 2003, and at

Villa la Pietra, the NYU study center in Florence, Italy, November

2003.   

               

Paper, “Worldly Goods:  Envy and Factionalism in late Medieval and

                        Renaissance Italy,” presented at the annual meeting of the

                        Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, Canada, March 2003.

 

Book Presentation, “Presentation of the book, The Art Market in Italy, 15th-

17th Centuries,” at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Toronto, Canada, March 2003.  Special session organized by the Istituto di Studi Rinascimentali, Ferrara, Italy.

 

Session Organizer “Reliquaries and Banners:  Their Uses and Meanings in

Three Renaissance Polities,” and presenter of paper, “Symbols of Sovereignty:  Military Banners in Fifteenth-Century Venice,” presented at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, Tempe, Arizona, April 2002.    

 

Paper, “Worldy Goods, Envy, and Competition in late Medieval and Renaissance

            Italy,” presented at the Center for Renaisance and Baroque Studies,

            University of Maryland, College Park, February, 2002.

 

Paper, “At the Margins ?  The Place of Servants in Venetian Society,” presented

at the conference “News on the Rialto: Identies and the Social Order in Renaissance Venice:  A Conference in Honor of Brian Pullan,” University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, November, 2001.      

           

            Invited Commentator for seminar “The Catholic Church and Blacks in

                        Renaissance Italy,” Catholic University of America, Washington,

                        DC, October 2001.

 

Final Roundtable Discussant at the conference “The Art Market in Italy,

                        15th through 17th Centures,” Florence, Italy, June 2000.

 

Paper, “The Tomb of Doge Francesco Foscari,” presented at the Twelfth

                        New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies,

                        Sarasota, Florida, March 2000.

 

            Invited Lecture, “Politics and Architectural Patronage in Renaissance Venice:

                        The Commissions of Doge Francesco Foscari,” presented at Villa le

                        Balze, the Georgetown University Study Center, Fiesole, Italy, November

1999; Wake Forest University, November 2000; and at the North Carolina Renaissance Workshop, February 2001.

 

            Invited Lecture, “Vecchi, poveri, e impotenti:  The Elderly in Renaissance

                        Venice,” presented at Villa I Tatti, the Harvard University Center for

                        Renaissance Studies, Florence, Italy, November 1998.

 

            Paper, “The Elections of Francesco Foscari as Procurator of San Marco and

as Doge,” presented at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America Annual Meeting, College Park, Maryland, April 1998.

 

            Chair and Commentator, “Gender and Class in the High and Late Middle

                        Ages,” 110th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association,

                        Atlanta, Georgia, January 1996.

 

 

 

            Paper, “Food, Clothing and Shelter:  The Material Concerns of Domestic

Servants in Renaissance Venice,” presented at the New England Renaissance Conference, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, November, 1995.

 

            Paper, “The Gondola as a Marker of Station in Venetian Society,” presented

                        at the conference “Renaissance Venice:  Continuity and Change,”

                        Folger Library, Washington, D.C., October 1993.

 

            Paper, “The Family Model of Master/Servant Relations in Renaissance Venice,”           

                        presented at the Twentieth Annual Warwick University Symposium on

                        Renaissance Florence and Venice, Venice, Italy, December 1992.

 

            Invited Lecture, “The Dynamic of Master/Servant Relations in Renaissance

                        Venice,” presented to the History Department, Vassar College,

                        Poughkeepsie, New York, December 1991.

 

            Paper, “Aspects of Patronage in Renaissance Venice,” presented at the Sixteenth

                        Century Studies Conference, Philadelphia, October 1991.

 

            Discussant for the Symposium “Venice:  Educator of Europe,” University of

                        San Francisco, August 1991.

 

            Paper, “The Culture of Domestic Servants in Venice,” presented at the 105th

                        Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New York,

                        December 1990.

 

Discussant for Italy, Roundtable Discussion on “Cities in Early Modern Europe,”

            held at the annual meeting of the Social Science History Association,

                        St. Paul, MN, October 1990.

 

            Paper, “Masters and Servants:  Identity and Social Place in Renaissance Venice,”

                        presented at the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America,

                        Toronto, Ontario, April 1990.

 

            Paper, “The Masculinization of Domestic Service in Sixteenth-Century Venice,”                         presented at the conference “Gender and Society II:  Men in the Middle

                        Ages,” Fordham University Center for Medieval Studies, March 1990.

 

            Invited Lecture, “Disobedient Servants and Merciful Masters:  The Regulation

                                and Control of Domestic Servants in Renaissance Venice,” presented

                        at SUNY Binghamton, November 1989.

 

            Paper, “Gender and the Urban Geography of Renaissance Venice,” presented at

                        the Fifteenth Annual Warwick University Symposium on Florence and

                        Venice in the Renaissance, Venice, Italy, December 1988.

 

            Paper, “Politics and Parishes in Early Renaissance Venice,” presented at the

                        meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, New York, March 1988.

 

            Paper, “Apprenticeship in Early Renaissance Venice,” presented at the Sixth

                        New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sarasota,

                        Florida, March 1988.

 

            Session Organizer, “Gender and Power in Renaissance Italy,” and presented,

                        “Gender, Space, and Power:  Men’s and Women’s Patronage Networks

                        in Early Renaissance Venice,” presented at the 101st annual meeting of

                        the American Historical Association, Chicago, Illinois, December 1986.

 

            Paper, “The Aftermath of the Querini-Tiepolo Conspiracy in Venice, 1310,”

presented at the Fifth New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, Florida, March 1986.

 

            Paper, “Private Property, Public Authority, and Urban Growth in Late

                                Medieval Venice,” presented at the Twentieth International Conference

                        On Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 1985.

 

Paper, “Neighbors and Patrons:  Women’s Networks in Early Renaissance

                        Venice,” presented at the conference “Power, Influence, and

                        Insubordination:  Women in Medieval and Early Modern Europe,”

            Fordham University, New York, March 1985.

 

            Paper, “Artisan Networks in Early Renaissance Venice,” presented at the

98th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, San Francisco, December 1983.

 
Professional Service

 

                Member, 2004-07, Advisory Board, Society for Italian Historical Studies.

 

Member, 2003-05, American Historical Association’s Committee on Research

Grants, Subcommittee on Africa, Asia, and Europe, (awards the

Bernodotte E. Schmitt Grants).

 

            Member, Editorial Board of the series, “Changing Perspectives on

                        Early Modern Europe,” University of Rochester Press.

 

Outside examiner, Princeton University, Department of Art and Archeology,

 Ph.D.  Dissertation of Blake de Maria, December 2002.

 

Conference Organizer (with John Martin), “Venice Reconsidered:  Venetian

                        History and Civilization, 1297-1797,” Syracuse, September 1997.

                        (Underwritten by grants from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation

                        and the Ray Smith Symposium Series).

           

 

            Member 1995-97, American Historical Associations’s Joan Kelly Prize

Committee, (awards the prize for the best book in women’s history or feminist theory).

 

Study Leader, Smithsonian Institution and Art Institute of Chicago, “Splendors

            of Italy Study Tour,” 1992-94, 1997.

 

Speaker, New York State Council on the Humanities, “Speakers in the

            Humanities Program,” 1996-2000.

 

Member, 1996-Present, Honorary Committee, American Friends of the Marciana

 Library  

 

Member, 1994, Cesare Barbieri Prize Committee, Society for Italian Historical

            Studies.

 

Panelist, (Grant Application Panel Reviewer), NEH, Division of Education

            Programs, November 1984; Division of Fellowship