Linda Carroll

The Role of Playwright Angelo Beolco-Ruzante and His Plays in the Life and Culture of Renaissance Venice

A critical edition and English translation of the works of Angelo Beolco-Ruzante

Francesco d’Ambra, Il furto, ed. Vanni Bramanti, trans. Linda L. Carroll, with an edition of Francesco Corteccia’s entr’acte music by Alexander Dean and an essay on Corteccia’s music and Ugolino Martelli’s lyrics by Anthony M. Cummings. Italica Press, 2025. This edition is based on the prompt copy recently discovered by Vanni Bramanti. Il furto is the only Italian Renaissance play for which both entr’acte music and lyrics have survived. This edition by including all of these elements allows the original staging to come fully alive.

“Early Ruzante Scholarship and Its Potential for Contributions to Future Research.” News on the Rialto 41 (2022-2023): 22-24.

Contexts and Connections of Italian Elements in Shakespeare’s Plays, Amsterdam University Press/Taylor & Francis. In press.

English and Italian Literature and Drama: Beolco’s Social Theater at the Renaissance Turning Point. Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies Reprints. SKENÈ. Texts and Studies (https://textsandstudies.skeneproject.it/index.php/TS) Supplement to SKENÈ. Journal of Theatre and Drama Studies. Pisa: Edizioni ETS. In press.

“Venice’s At-Home Diplomacy in the Early 1520s: Giovanni Cosaza, Federico II Gonzaga, and Pier Antonio di Sanseverino (Titian’s Man in a Red Hat).” Notiziario dell’Associazione Nobiliare Regionale Veneta. Rivista di studi storici. In press.

“The Italian Roots of Jefferson’s Philosophy.” History Now. In press.