Elena Brizio

Elena Brizio has published on the political and institutional history of Siena of the Trecento. Her current research focuses on the cultural, economic, and social power of Sienese women in the Renaissance. She currently teaches Medieval and Early Modern History at Georgetown University-Fiesole Campus and Family and Gender in Renaissance Italy at IES Abroad (Institute for the International Education of Students) in Siena. Her most recent publication is “Political Meddling in Women’s Lives: Sienese and Florentine Solutions in Difficult Times, 1550–1560,” in Medici Power and Representation in Early Modern Europe (Turnhout: Brepols, 2016). Her most recent work is “‘Sebben che siamo donne…’: Sienese Women in the Troubled Years at the End of the Republic (ca. 1500–1560),” in A Companion to Late Medieval and Early Modern Siena (Brill, forthcoming).