| Guido Ruggiero | |
|---|---|
| Born | Danbury, Connecticut |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | M.A., Ph.D. |
| Alma mater | University of Colorado, UCLA |
| Occupation | Microhistorian, professor |
Guido Ruggiero is a notable microhistorian and professor and chair of the University of Miami History Department. His most notable work is Binding Passions: Tales of Magic, Marriage and Power from the End of the Renaissance which discusses tales of witchcraft and love magic in early modern Venice.
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Ruggiero was born in Danbury, Connecticut and grew up in Webster, New York, a small rural town along the old shore line of Lake Ontario. After earning a B.A. with a heavy focus on ancient history and philosophy at the University of Colorado, he went on to UCLA where as a University of California Regent's Intern Fellow he earned an M.A. (1967) and a Ph.D. (1972). As a Regent's Fellow he began his long love affair with Venice and the Venetian Archives in 1970 and has returned there regularly for research. In addition to being a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton New Jersey (1981–82; 1991) and a Fellow at Harvard's Villa I Tatti in Florence, Italy (1990–1991) he has won a number of grants and fellowships including a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1990). Ruggiero regularly teaches classes on the Italian Renaissance, the new social and cultural history, and the uses of literature for history.[1]