Deborah Pellegrino

Deborah Pellegrino is a Senior Lector in the Department of Italian Studies. She earned her PhD in Italian Studies from New York University in 2018. Her expertise lies in archival research and Italian language pedagogy. Her work focuses on late medieval and early modern Italian social and cultural history, literature, gender studies, and religious culture with particular attention to the letters, account books, and memoirs of women from the mercantile echelon of Renaissance Florence. Deborah recently co-edited Women’s Agency and Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Tuscany, 1300-1600 (Viella, 2022) with Simona Lorenzini. Other recent publication highlights include: “Widowhood and Devotion: The Ricordanze Spirituali of the Exemplary Ginevra Brancacci,” in Women’s Agency and Self-Fashioning in Early Modern Tuscany (1300-1600); “Keeping Track of the Household: Accounting the Exceptional Spousal Collaboration between Margherita and Francesco Datini,” I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance 25.2 (2022); “An Untold Experience of Exile: New Archival Findings on Felice Brancacci,” Renaissance and Reformation 47.2 (2024); “Francesco Caccini and Ginevra Brancacci: Marital Collaboration in Fifteenth Century Florence,” Renaissance Studies (Early View, 2025). Deborah is currently co-editing the volume Rethinking Genres in Early Modern Europe (1400–1600) (University of Delaware Press, forthcoming) with Simona Lorenzini and Maria Galli Stampino. In addition, she is completing the monograph entitled Women’s Ricordanze and Account Books in the Renaissance Florentine Mercantile Household.