Adjunct Professor

Marco Ruffini, Assistant Professor of Italian Studies and Adjunct Professor of Art History. Ph.D. in Italian Studies, University of California, Berkeley; Diploma di Specializzazione in Art History, University of Rome "La Sapienza."

Professor Ruffini is a cultural historian specializing in early modern Italian art and literature, art theory, and history of science.

He is the author of Gli affreschi del cardinale Prospero Santacroce nel castello di San Gregorio da Sassola. Ritratto di un committente (De Luca Editore, 2001); Le imprese del drago. Politica, emblematica e scienze naturali alla corte di Gregorio XIII (1572-1585) (Bulzoni, 2005). He is the co-editor, with Ingrid Rowland and Claudia Cieri Via, of Unity and Fragments of Modernity: Art and Science in Gregory XIII Boncompagni's Rome (1572-1585) (Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, forthcoming). He is currently working on a book which considers the political aim of Giorgio Vasari's representation of Michelangelo in the Lives of the Artists.

ruffini@northwestern.edu