Books
- 2025: Representing Violence against Women. A Case Study from Early Twentieth-Century Italy (Europa Periodica. Studies on Periodicals and Newspapers. Peter Lang);
- 2021: Opposing Patriarchy. Women and the Law in Action in Pre-Unification Italy (1815-1865) (London: Institute of Modern Languages Research (IMLR) book series), 286 pp., ISBN 9780854572786;
- 2014: Breve studio sulla condizione giuridica della donna nello Stato Pontificio dell’Ottocento (Brief Study on the Legal Status of Women in the Nineteenth-Century Papal States) published with the support of the Istituto per la storia del Risorgimento italiano - Pesaro and Urbino Committee, and the Municipality of Fano (PU-Italy), ([n. p.]: Lulu.com), 97 pp., ISBN 9781291833447.
Editor/Co-Editor of Special issues of peer-reviewed journal/edited volumes
- 2026: Editor: ‘Gendered Violence, State and the Individual. A Legal and Historical Approach’, Violence against Women (https://journals.sagepub.com/page/vaw/call-for-papers) (stage: peer-reviewing articles);
- 2026: Co-editor (with Dr Manuela Di Franco and Dr Elena Sottilotta): ‘Women, Violence and Italian Culture: Voices, Sounds, Images (c. XIX-XXI)’, Journal of Romance Studies, 26.2 (June 2026) (stage: peer-reviewing articles);
- 2026: Co-editor (with Drs Gianmarco Mancosu, Katia Pizzi and Sonita Sarker): ‘Reeds in the Wind. Sardinia Beyond the Island’ (Cultural Memories Series, Peter Lang) (stage: peer-reviewing articles);
- 2024: Co-editor (with Professor Elena Musiani): ‘‘Nelle domestiche mura’. La famiglia come luogo ‘della felicità o della miseria’’, Quaderni d’italianistica, 45/3;
- 2023: Co-editor (with Dr Manuela Di Franco): ‘Real Women and Imagined Femininity. Images of Womanhood in Modern Italy’, Italica, 100/3;
- 2022-2023: Co-editor (with Dr Elena Sottilotta): ‘Donne in Sardegna. Creatività ed espressione di sé/ Women in Sardinia: Creativity and Self-Expression’, Chronica Mundi, 16-17, 1-303;
- 2018: Co-editor (with Professor Helena Sanson and Dr Manuela Di Franco): ‘Da madri a cittadine. Le donne italiane dall’Unità alla Repubblica’, special issue of The Italianist, 38/3, 301-459.
Peer-reviewed journal articles/introductions
- 2024: ‘Introduction. ‘Nelle domestiche mura’. La famiglia come luogo ‘della felicità o della miseria’’, Quaderni d’italianistica, 45/3, 7-16. co-authored with Elena Musiani;
- 2024: ‘Una dote “splendidissima”: donne, uomini e legge tra scelte reali e mondi immaginati’, WoLL, 6, 41-52;
- 2023: ‘‘Mendacia, deliria, scurrilitates erat sperandum’. Realtà e aspettative di una donna di fronte ai tribunali dello Stato Pontificio dell’Ottocento’, Italica, 100/3, 317-30. https://doi.org/10.5406/23256672.100.3.03;
- 2023: ‘Introduction. Real Women and Imagined Femininity. Images of Womanhood in Modern Italy’, Italica, 100/3, 312-316, co-authored with Dr Manuela Di Franco. https://doi.org/10.5406/23256672.100.3.02;
- 2022-2023: ‘Introduzione’, Donne in Sardegna. Creatività ed espressione di sé, Chronica Mundi, 16-17, 7-12, co-authored with Elena Sottilotta;
- 2022-2023: “‘Le scritture rimangono’: Intervista a Michela Murgia”, Chronica Mundi, 16-17, 277-88, co-authored with Elena Sottilotta;
- 2021: ‘‘He Saw what He Wanted to See’: Reputation, Jealousy and the Law. The Uxoricide of Giselda Zanolo’, Papers of the British School at Rome, 319-33. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0068246221000015;
- 2019-2020: ‘Fascism and ‘Italians abroad’: National Identity and the Building of the Fascist State’, Chronica Mundi, 14, 81-119, co-authored with Manuela Di Franco;
- 2019: ‘‘I Forgive my Sons for any Disgust They Might Have Caused Me’. Alvise I Mocenigo and the Decline of Paternal Authority in Nineteenth-Century Venice’, Journal of Family History, 44/4, 347-65. https://doi.org/10.1177/0363199019856287;
- 2018: ‘The Dowry in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Papal States: The Case of Umbellina Livi’, in G. Valera, C. Heath and E. Lung, eds, Gender and Generations: Spaces, Times, Identity, Chronica Mundi, 13, 92-106;
- 2018: ‘Introduzione. Da madri a cittadine. Le donne italiane dall’Unità alla Repubblica’, Da madri a cittadine. Le donne italiane dall’Unità alla Repubblica, special issue of The Italianist, 38/3, 301-09, edited by Sara Delmedico, Manuela Di Franco and Helena Sanson. https://doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2018.1515814;
- 2017: ‘Alimenti e dote alla periferia dello Stato Pontificio: la famiglia Pucci’, The Italianist, 37/1, 50-68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02614340.2016.1258869;
- 2016: ‘The “Appropriateness” of Dowry: Women and Inheritance in the Papal States in the Early Nineteenth Century’, GLOSSAE. European Journal of Legal History, 13, 165-81;
- 2011: ‘Mazzini and Life after Death’, Chronica Mundi, 1, 128-34.
Chapters in books
-2025: ‘Immagini reali e realtà immaginate. Donne, ambizioni e aspettative nell’Italia repubblicana’, in Patrie e resistenze nella Casa comune europea, ed. by Giovanna D’Amico and Brunello Mantelli (Ancona: Affinità elettive);
-2025: ‘‘They found only anguish where there should have been joy’: Marriage Annulment in Sicily. A Case Study’, in Religion and Ideas in Southern Italy. Church, State and its People during the Early Modern Age, edited by Isabel Harvey and Milena Sabato (London: Routledge, forthcoming);
-2022: ‘‘Molto meno se la donna non può provare d’essere stata sorpresa’. Donne, onore e seduzione nel Regno delle Due Sicilie di metà Ottocento’, in La donna, il matrimonio e la famiglia Aspetti sociali dal XVI al XX secolo, edited by Giovanna Da Molin and Angela Carbone (Bari: Cacucci), pp. 185-197, ISBN 9791259652560;
- 2022: ‘Seduzione, reputazione e matrimonio nella Penisola italiana dell’Ottocento’, in G. Da Molin, ed., Vent’anni di studi e ricerche del CIRPAS (Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca e Formazione “Popolazione, Ambiente e Salute”) (Bari: Cacucci), p. 69 (Abstract);
- 2012: ‘Fano tra pionismo e Repubblica Romana (1846-1849)’, in Miscellanea di studi per il bicentenario della nascita di Giuseppe Mazzini, edited by Stefano Orazi (Urbino: Istituto per la storia del Risorgimento italiano), pp. 99-116, ISBN 9788889731451;
- 2012: ‘Garibaldinismo fascista: il discorso di Ezio Garibaldi ad Urbino’, in Ripensare Garibaldi. Studi dal bicentenario della nascita di Giuseppe Garibaldi, edited by Stefano Orazi (Urbino: Istituto per la storia del Risorgimento italiano), pp. 211-18, ISBN 9788889731468.
Book reviews
- 2025: ‘Gothic Italy, by Stefano Serafini (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2024)’, Modern Italy;
- 2023: ‘Grazia Deledda. Dopo il divorzio. Con appendici di lettere e scritti inediti, edited by Giancarlo Porcu (Nuoro: Il Maestrale, 2022)’, Allegoria, 88;
- 2023: ‘Representations of Lethal Gender-based Violence in Italy between Journalism and Literature, by Nicoletta Mandolini (London: Routledge, 2021)’, WoLL, 5;
- 2023: ‘Italian Women in Basilicata: Staying Behind but Moving Forward during the Age of Mass Emigration, 1876–1914, by Victoria Calabrese (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2022)’, Modern Italy, https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2022.60;
- 2020: ‘Il lavoro delle donne nell’Italia contemporanea, by Alessandra Pescarolo (Rome: Viella, 2019)’, Modern Italy, https://doi.org/10.1017/mit.2020.24.
