held fellowships from among others the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, the National Humanities Center, and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford. In 2010, he received the Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, currently the largest award in the humanities. In 2014 he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Throughout his career his work has rotated around two problems, the means for establishing a civil society in late medieval and Renaissance Italy, especially through ritual, and the forces of disorder working against civil society, especially vendettas. Although rooted in an analysis of the social structures of cities and networks of patrons and families, most of his work has engaged the interpretation of meaning through public representations, whether in civic rituals, carnival festivity, or operas. He is an avid skier. Works Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice (Princeton University Press, 1981) (Winner of the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize and Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History) Italian translation: Il rituale civico a Venezia nel Rinascimento (Rome: Il Veltro Editrice, 1984). The Leopold von Ranke Manuscript Collection of Syracuse University: The Complete Catalogue (Syracuse University Press, 1983). Sex and Gender in Historical Perspective. Co-edited with Guido Ruggiero. Selections from Quaderni Storici, no. 1. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990. Microhistory and the Lost Peoples of Europe. Co-edited with Guido Ruggiero. Selections from Quaderni Storici, no. 2. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta and Factions in Friuli during the Renaissance. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 390pp. (Winner of the Howard R. Marraro Prize in Italian History) Reader's edition: Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta in Renaissance Italy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Italian translation: Il sangue s’infuria e ribolle: La vendetta nell’Italia del Rinascimento. Verona: Cierre edizioni, 2010. History from Crime. Co-edited with Guido Ruggiero. Selections from Quaderni Storici, no. 3. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994, 236pp. Ritual in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 1997, 2nd edition, 2005). Italian translation: Riti e rituali nell’Europa moderna. Milan, La Nuova Italia, 2000. Spanish translation: Fiesta y rito en la Europa moderna. Madrid, Editorial Complutense, 2001. Co-author with Brian Levack, Michael Maas, and Meredith Veldman, The West: Encounters and Transformations. New York: Addison Wesley Longman (new Prentice Hall), 2004. Concise edition, 2006. 2nd full edition, 2007. 3rd full edition,