Two I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History volumes win major awards

November 5, 2020
Book cover of Tamar Herzig "A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy" and Sharon Strocchia "Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy"

We are delighted to announce that two volumes from our I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History series have recently received major awards.

A Convert’s Tale: Art, Crime, and Jewish Apostasy in Renaissance Italy (Harvard Univ. Press, 2019) by Tamar Herzig (Vit’14) was awarded the American Historical Association’s 2020 Dorothy Rosenburg Prize for the history of the Jewish diaspora. 

The 2019 Marraro Prize from the Society for Italian Historical Studies for the best book or article on Italy was awarded to Forgotten Healers: Women and the Pursuit of Health in Late Renaissance Italy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019) by Sharon Strocchia (Vit’85). 

One of the few series outside of Italy to produce monographic studies on the history of the Italian Renaissance, the I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History have become a landmark series for historians of early modern Italy and beyond.