Linda Carroll
Title
Professor Emerita, Italian
Institution
Tulane University
Current Research
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
A critical edition and English translation of the works of Angelo Beolco-Ruzante
Recent Publications
“The Italian Roots of Jefferson’s Philosophy.” History Now. 78 (Spring, 2026)
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/italian-roots-jeffersons-philosophy.
“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 17 (2025): 101-27.
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. Il furto is the only Italian Renaissance play for which both entr’acte music and lyrics have survived. This edition, based on the prompt copy discovered by Vanni Bramanti, by including all of these elements allows the original staging to come fully alive.
https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/italian-roots-jeffersons-philosophy.
“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 17 (2025): 101-27.
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. Il furto is the only Italian Renaissance play for which both entr’acte music and lyrics have survived. This edition, based on the prompt copy discovered by Vanni Bramanti, by including all of these elements allows the original staging to come fully alive.
Forthcoming Publications
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.
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.