* The Collected Letters of Elena Piscopia (1997), edited by Valeria Sorge and Maria Serena Mazzi
* The Intellectual Life of Elena Piscopia: A Renaissance Courtesan and Her World (2011), by Valeria Sorge
* The Renaissance Courtesan: A Woman of Wit and Beauty (2009), by Giulia Sissa
* The Courtesan's Arts: The History and Practice of Prostitution in Renaissance Italy (2008), by Judith Brown
* The Renaissance World: A Cultural, Political, and Social History (2007), by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto