Professor Judith Bryce

J.H.Bryce@bris.ac.uk  Tel: 0117 9288610 Judith Bryce studied Italian and French at the University of Aberdeen (MA, 1970) and completed her PhD, also at Aberdeen, in 1977. She was a lecturer, then Senior Lecturer and head of department at the University of Hull (1973-94) before being appointed to the first chair of Italian at Bristol in 1994, acting as Head of Department (1994-2000) and as Chair of the School of Modern Languages (2003-06). She has recently completed five years as Senior Editor of Italian Studies, the journal of the Society for Italian Studies. In May 2007 she was elected Vice-Chair of the Society for Renaissance Studies and will become Chair in 2010. Research Interests Her early research interests focused on mid-sixteenth-century Florentine cultural history but she has also published on modern Italian literature, particularly the feminist author Dacia Maraini. Her more recent work has centred on later fifteenth-century Florence with a series of articles on issues of gender and culture including the work of the religious dramatist Antonia Tanini Pulci (1452-1501), women’s literacy, women and performance, the cultural politics of Lorenzo de’ Medici (1449-92), and epistolary relations between Lorenzo and Ippolita Sforza, Duchess of Calabria. She is currently working on  the correspondence of Archbishop Antonino Pierozzi with Dada degli Adimari in the 1450s and on target audiences of Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Comento de’ miei sonetti. Selected Publications

Books Cosimo Bartoli (1503-1572): The Career of a Florentine Polymath (Geneva: Droz, 1983), Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance, 191, 360pp. (edited with Doug Thompson) Moving in Measure.  Essays in Honour of Brian Moloney (Hull: Hull University Press, 1989), 242pp Articles ‘Between Friends? Two Letters of Ippolita Sforza to Lorenzo de’ Medici’, Renaissance Studies, 21, 3 (2007), pp. 340-65 'Les Livres des Florentines': Reconsidering Women’s Literacy in Quattrocento Florence’, in At the Margins: Minority Groups in Pre-Modern Italy, ed. by Stephen J. Milner (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005), pp.133-61

'Or altra via mi convien cercare': Marriage, Salvation, and Sanctity in Antonia Tanini Pulci’s Rappresentazione di Santa Guglielma’, in Theatre, Opera, and Performance in Italy from the Fifteenth Century to the Present: Essays in Honour of Richard Andrews, ed. by Simon Gilson, Catherine Keen, and Brian Richardson (Leeds: The Society for Italian Studies, 2004), pp. 23-38

‘Lorenzo de’ Medici, Piombino, and Naples: Cultural Politics from the Raccolte aragonesi to the Comento’, in Essays in Italian Literature and History in Honour of Doug Thompson, ed. by George Talbot and Pamela Williams (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2002), pp. 11-27

'Fa finire uno bello studio et dice volere studiare': Ippolita Sforza and her Books’, Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance, 64 (2002), 55-69

‘Performing for Strangers: Women, Dance, and Music in Quattrocento Florence’, Renaissance Quarterly, 54 (2001), 1074-1107  (selected as article of the month, February 2002 by the US Medieval Feminist Index)

‘The Perfect Crime? Paternal Perpetrators in Dacia Maraini’s Voci’, in Crime Scenes: Detective Narratives in European Culture Since 1945, ed. by Anne Mullen and Emer O’Beirne (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000), pp. 207-18

‘Creative Writing in the Vernacular in Later Fifteenth-Century Florence: Lucrezia Tornabuoni and Antonia Pulci’, in A History of Women’s Writing in Italy, ed. by Letizia Panizza and Sharon Wood (Cambridge: CUP, 2000), pp. 31-36

'Intimations of Patriarchy: Memories of Wartime Japan in Dacia Maraini’s Bagheria’, in European Memories of the Second World War, ed. by Helmut Peitsch, Charles Burdett and Claire Gorrara (New York, London: Berghahn Books, 1999), pp. 220-8

‘Adjusting the Canon for Later Fifteenth-Century Florence: The Case of Antonia Pulci’, in The Renaissance Theatre: Texts, Performance, Design, ed. by Christopher Cairns (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing Ltd, 1999), 2 vols, vol. I, pp. 133-45

'The Oral World of the Early Academia Fiorentina', Renaissance Studies, 9, 1 (1995), 77-103

'Gender and Myth in the Orlando furioso', Italian Studies, 47 (1992), 41-50

'The Theatrical Activities of Palla di Lorenzo Strozzi in Lyon in the 1540s', in Theatre of the English and Italian Renaissance, ed. by J. R. Mulryne and Margeret Shewring (London: Macmillan, 1991),Warwick Studies in the European Humanities, pp. 55-69

'Rousseau and Calvino: An Unexplored Ideological Perspective in Il barone rampante' in Moving in Measure.  Essays in Honour of Brian Moloney, ed. by Judith Bryce and Doug Thompson (Hull: Hull University Press, 1989), pp. 201-14

'Palla ch'io amo': The Theatrical Activities of Palla di Lorenzo Strozzi in Lyon in the 1540s', in Renaissance and Other Studies: Essays Presented to Peter Brown, ed. by Eileen A. Millar (Glasgow: University of Glasgow, Department of Italian, 1988), pp.192-209

'Authoritarianism and Sexual Identity in the Protagonist of Il Gattopardo', Journal of the Association of Teachers of Italian, 46 (Spring 1986), 47-55

'Cosimo Bartoli's Del modo di misurare le distanze (1564): A Reappraisal of his Sources', Annali dell'Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze, 5 (1980), 19-

Journals

Journal of Gender Studies
1991-94 Editorial Board.
1993-94 Co-Editor
1994-96  Advisory Board
2002-   Honorary member, Editorial Board

Italian Studies
1996-2001  Editorial Board
2001-  Senior Editor

1995-  Advisory Board, Strathclyde Modern Language Studies
1998-   Italian Advisory Panel, Romance Studies

Recent Conferences Organized

Society for Italian Studies biennial conference, Bristol, April 1999
First national conference of the Society for Renaissance Studies, Bristol, September 2003

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