William Caferro

Published works

• Caferro, William. Mercenary Companies and the Decline of Siena. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Jacks, Philip and William Caferro. "The Spinelli of Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family." Penn State University Press..
• Caferro, William. John Hawkwood: An English Mercenary in Fourteenth-Century Italy. Johns Hopkins University Press..
• Caferro, William, Editor. The Routledge History of Renaissance Europe New York and London: Routledge Press.
• Caferro, William. Contesting the Renaissance. Wiley-Blackwell..
• Caferro, William. Petrarch's War: Florence and the Black Death in Context. Cambridge University Press.

• Caferro, William. "City and Countryside in Siena in the Second Half of the Fourteenth Century". The Journal of Economic History 54: 85-103.
• Caferro, William. "The silk business of Tommaso Spinelli, fifteenth-century Florentine merchant and papal banker". Renaissance Studies 10: 417-439.
• Caferro, William. "Italy and the Companies of Adventure in the Fourteenth Century". The Historian 58: 794-810.
• Caferro, William. “L'Attività bancaria papale e la Firenze del Rinascimento. Il caso di Tommaso Spinelli,” Società e storia 55: 717-753.
• Caferro, Wiiliam. “Continuity, Long-Term Service and Permanent Forces: A Reassessment of the Florentine Army in the Fourteenth Century,” The Journal of Modern History 80: 303-32.
• Caferro, William. “Warfare and Economy in Renaissance Italy, 1350-1450,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 39: 167-209.
• Caferro, William. “Tommaso Spinelli, the Soul of a Banker,” Journal of the Historical Society 8.2: 303-322.
• Caferro, William. “Petrarch’s War: Florentine Wages at the Time of the Black Death” Speculum 88.1: 144-16
• Caferro, William. “Edward Despenser, The Green Knight and the Lance Formation: Englishmen in Florentine Military Service” in The Hundred Years War, part III, edited by L. J. Andrew Villalon and Donald Kagay : 85-104.
• Caferro, William. “Dante, Byzantium and the Italian Chronicle Tradition” in Dante and the Greeks, edited by Jan Ziolkowski. Harvard University Press: 227-245.
• Caferro, William. “Dante, Riccobaldo and Empire,” Dante Studies 135: 135-155.
• Caferro, William. “The Visconti War and Boccaccio’s Florentine Public Service in Context, 1351-1353,” Heliotropia 15: 161-182.

  Awards

• 2002 Madison Sarratt Prize for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
• 2008 Medieval Institute, Otto Grundler Book Prize
• 2010 Guggenheim Fellow
• 2016 Vanderbilt University, Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching