My latest article, "Bloodstained Books in Renaissance Sicily: The Library of Matteo Barresi, Marquis of Pietraperzia," is out! Incredibly grateful to I Tatti Studies in the Italian Renaissance for hosting this side project of mine—which triangulates book collecting, princely fantasies & murder in sixteenth-century Sicily.

Link: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/721730

(Get in touch if you don't have access and would like to read it! I'll send you a DM with a copy.)

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