AHA Award Recipients

Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History

The American Historical Association's Marraro Prize is one of three annual awards for the best book or article on Italy established by Howard R. Marraro (b. 1897), a historian of Italian culture. Marraro made bequests to the American Historical Association, the American Catholic Historical Association, and the Society for Italian Historical Studies to allow each association to award a prize in Italian history in any epoch, in Italian cultural history, or in Italian American relations. All submissions must be the work of resident citizens of the United States or Canada.

2011

Michael R. Ebner (Syracuse Univ.), Ordinary Violence in Mussolini's Italy (Cambridge Univ. Press)

2010

Stanislao G. Pugliese, Hofstra Univ., Bitter Spring: A Life of Ignazio Silone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux)

2009

Thomas J. Kuehn, Heirs, Kin, and Creditors in Renaissance Florence (Cambridge University Press)

2008

Margaret Meserve, Empires of Islam in Renaissance Historical Thought (Harvard Univ. Press, 2008)

2007

John A. Davis, Naples and Napoleon: Southern Italy and the European Revolutions, 1780–1860, Oxford Univ. Press, 2006

2006

Frank M. Snowden, Yale University, The Conquest of Malaria: Italy, 1900–1962 (Yale University Press, 2006)

2005

Thomas V. Cohen, York University, Love and Death in Renaissance Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2004)

2004

Ronald G. Musto, American Council of Learned Societies and Italica Press, Apocalypse in Rome: Cola di Rienzo and the Politics of the New Age (University of California Press, 2003)

2003

David Freedberg, Columbia University, Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, His Friends, and the Beginning of Modern Natural History (University of Chicago Press, 2002)

2002

Paul F. Grendler, emeritus University of Toronto, The Universities of the Italian Renaissance(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002)

2001

Ronald G. Witt, Duke University, In the Footsteps of the Ancients: The Origins of Italian Humanism from Lovato to Bruni (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2000)

2000

Anthony Grafton (Princeton Univ.) for Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer (Harvard Univ. Press, 2000).

1999

Samuel L. Baily, Rutgers U., Immigrants in the Lands of Promise: Italians in Buenos Aries and New York City, 1870–1914 (Princeton University Press, 1999)

1998

Anthony L. Cardoza, Loyola U. of Chicago, Aristocrats in Bourgeois Italy: The Piedmontese Nobility, 1861-1930 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 1997).

1997

Carl Ipsen, Indiana U., Dictating Demography: The Problem of Population in Fascist Italy (Cambridge U. Press, 1996)

1996

T. C. Price Zimmermann, Davidson College, Paolo Giovio: The Historian and the Crisis of Sixteenth-Century Italy (Princeton U. Press, 1995)

1995

Margaret L. King, Brooklyn College and Graduate Center, CUNY, The Death of the Child Valerio Marcello (U. of Chicago Press, 1994)

1994

Walter L. Adamson, Emory U., Avante-Garde Florence: From Modernism to Fascism (Harvard Univ. Press, 1993)

1993

Edward Muir, Jr., Northwestern U., Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1993)

1992

Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr., Williams College, The Heritage of Giotto’s Geometry: Art and Science on the Eve of the Scientific Revolution (Cornell U. Press, 1991)

1991

Antonio Calabria, U. of Texas-San Antonio, The Cost of Empire: The Finances of the Kingdom of Naples in the Time of Spanish Rule (Cambridge U. of Press)

1990

James Edward Miller, U.S. Department of State, From Elite to Mass Politics: Italian Socialism in the Giolittian Era, 1900–1914 (Kent State U. Press, 1990)

1989

Paul F. Grendler, U. of Toronto, Schooling in Renaissance Italy: Literacy and Learning, 1300–1600 (Johns Hopkins U. Press)

1988

Christopher J. Wickham, U. of Birmingham, The Mountains and the City: The Tuscan Appenines in the Early Middle Ages (Oxford: Clarenton Press)

1987

R. Burr Litchfield, Brown U., Emergence of a Bureaucracy: Florentine Patricians, 1530–1790 (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press)

1986

Joan Barth Urban, Catholic U. of America, Moscow and the Italian Communist Party: From Togliatti to Berlinger (Cornell U.P.)

1985

Charles L. Stinger, State U. of New York at Buffalo, The Renaissance in Rome (Indiana U.P.)

1984

Paul Piccone, editor of Telos, Italian Marxism (U. of California Press)

1983

John M. Najemy, Cornell U., Corporatism and Consensus in Florentine Electoral Politics, 1280–1400 (U. of North Carolina Press)

1982

Eric Cochrane, U. of Chicago, Historians and Historiography in the Italian Renaissance (U. of Chicago Press)

1981

Richard Goldwaithe, Johns Hopkins U., The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History (Johns Hopkins U.P.)

1980

Domenico Sella, U. of Wisconsin-Madison, Crisis and Continuity: The Economy of Spanish Lombardy in the Seventeenth Century (Harvard U.P.)

1979

John W. O’Malley, Praise and Blame in Renaissance Rome: Rhetoric, Doctrine, and Reform in the Sacred Orators of the Papal Court, c. 1450–1521 (Duke U.P.)

1978

Virginia Yans-McLaughlin, Family and Community: Italian Immigrants in Buffalo, 1880–1930 (Cornell U.P.)

1977

Gene A. Brucker, The Civic World of Early Renaissance Florence (Princeton U.P.)

1976

Richard A. Webster, Industrial Imperialism in Italy, 1908–1915 (U. of California Press)

1975

Robert Brentano, Rome Before Avignon: A Social History of Thirteenth Century Rome (Basic Books)

1974

Benjamin F. Brown, The Complete Works of Sidney Sonnino (U.P. of Kansas)

1973

Edward R. Tannenbaum, The Fascist Experience: Italian Society and Culture, 1922–1945 (Basic Books)

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