Publications
Single-Authored Books
U. Grassi, Sodoma. Persecuzioni, affetti, pratiche sociali (V-XVIII sec.), Roma, Carocci: 2019 (Sodom: A History of Homosexuality, 5th-18th centuries).
U. Grassi, LʼOffitio sopra l’Onestà. Il controllo della sodomia nella Lucca del Cinquecento, Milano: Mimesis, 2014 (The Office upon Honesy. The Control of Sodomy in the 16th-Century Lucca Republic).
Critical Editions
D. Bartoli, L’Asia: Istoria della Compagnia di Gesù, edited by U. Grassi, E. Frei (co-editor), with an introduction by Adriano Prosperi, 2 vols., Torino: Einaudi, 2019.
Edited Books
U. Grassi, V. Lagioia, G.P. Romagnani (eds). Tribadi, sodomiti, invertite e invertiti, pederasti, femminelle, ermafroditi… Per una storia dell’omosessualità, della bisessualità e delle trasgressioni di genere in Italia, Pisa: ETS, 2017 (Tribades, Sodomites, Inverts, Pederasts, Sissies, and Hermaphrodites. A History of Homosexuality, Bisexuality, and Gender Transgressions in Italy).
U. Grassi, G. Marcocci, eds., Le trasgressioni della carne. Il desiderio omosessuale nel mondo islamico e cristiano, sec. XII-XX, Roma: Viella 2015 (The Transgressions of the Flesh: Homosexual Desire in Muslim and Christian Worlds, 12th-20th centuries).
Book Chapters
U. Grassi. “Emotions and Sexuality: Regulation and Homoerotic Transgression,” in The Routledge History of Emotions in Europe (1100-1700), edited by S. Broomhall and A. Lynch, London/New York, Routledge, 2010, pp. 133-150.
U. Grassi, “Il frutto proibito. Eresia, emozioni e peccato originale nell’Italia moderna,” in “Infami macchie”. Sessualità maschili e indisciplina fra XVII e XVIII secolo, edited by F. Alfieri and V. Lagioia, Roma: Viella, 2017 (The Forbidden Fruit: Heresy, emotions and Original Sin in Early Modern Italy), pp. 51-86.
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals
U. Grassi, “Ambiguous Boundaries: Sex Crimes and Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Early Modern Mediterranean World,” Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni 84.2 (2018), pp. 513-528
U. Grassi, “Sex and Toleration: New Perspectives of Research on Religious Radical Dissent in Early Modern Italy,” Intellectual History Review 29.1 (2019), pp. 129-144
U. Grassi, “Acts or Identities? Rethinking Foucault on Homosexuality,” Cultural History 5.2 (2016), pp. 200-221
U. Grassi, “Identità sessuale e medicina: Grassi legge Barbagli,” Storica 61-62 (2015), pp. 271-282 (Sexual Identity and Medicine: Grassi reads Barbagli)
U. Grassi, “Omosessualità islamiche e relazioni tra cristiani e musulmani: nuove prospettive di ricerca,” Storica 60 (2014), pp. 51-89 (Islamic Homosexualities and Christian Islamic Interactions: New Perspectives of Research)
U. Grassi, “L’Offitio sopra lʼHonestà. La repressione della sodomia nella Lucca del Cinquecento (1551-1580),” Studi Storici. Rivista trimestrale dellʼIstituto Gramsci 48.1 (2007), pp. 129-159. (The Office upon Honesty: The Repression of Sodomy in 16th-Century Lucca Republic)