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De Renzi, Silvia (2000). Instruments in Print: Books from the Whipple Collection. Cambridge, U.K.: Whipple Museum for the History of Science.

De Renzi, Silvia; Bresadola, Marco and Conforti, Maria eds. (2018). Pathology in Practice: Diseases and Dissections in Early Modern Europe. The History of Medicine in Context. London: Routledge.

De Renzi, Silvia (2018). Seats and series: dissecting diseases in the seventeenth century. In: De Renzi, Silvia; Bresadola, Marco and Conforti, Maria eds. Pathology in Practice: Diseases and Dissections in Early Modern Europe. The History of Medicine in Context. London: Routledge, pp. 96–115.

De Renzi, Silvia; Bresadola, Marco and Conforti, Maria (2018). Pathological dissections in early modern Europe: practice and knowledge. In: De Renzi, Silvia; Bresadola, Marco and Conforti, Maria eds. Pathology in Practice: Diseases and Dissections in Early Modern Europe. The History of Medicine in Context. London: Routledge, pp. 3–19.

De Renzi, Silvia (2018). Family resemblance in the Old Regime. In: Hopwood, Nick; Flemming, Rebecca and Kassell, Lauren eds. Reproduction. Antiquity to the Present Day. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 241–252.

De Renzi, Silvia (2013). Tales from cardinals' deathbeds: medical hierarchy, courtly etiquette and authority in the Counter Reformation. In: Andretta, Elisa and Nicoud, Marilyn eds. Être médecin à la cour (Italie, France et Espagne, XIIIe-XVIIIe siècle). Micrologus' Library (52). Florence: Sismel, pp. 235–258.

De Renzi, Silvia and Conforti, Maria (2008). "Sapere anatomico negli ospedali romani: formazione dei chirurghi e pratiche sperimentali (1620-1720)". In: Romano, Antonella ed. Rome et la Science Moderne : entre Renaissance et Lumières. Rome: École Française de Rome, pp. 433–472.

De Renzi, Silvia (2008). Per una biografia di Paolo Zacchia: nuovi documenti e ipotesi di ricerca. In: Pastore, Alessandro and Rossi, Giovanni eds. Paolo Zacchia. Alle Origini della Medicina Legale 1584-1659. Milan: FrancoAngeli, pp. 50–73.

De Renzi, Silvia (2007). Resemblance, paternity and imagination in early modern courts. In: Mueller-Wille, Staffan and Rheinberger, Hans-Jorg eds. Heredity produced: at the crossroads of biology, politics, and culture, 1500-1870. Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. Cambridge, Ma, USA: The MIT Press, pp. 61–83.

De Renzi, Silvia and Sparti, Donatella Livia (2007). Mancini, Giulio. In: ed. Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, Volume LXVIII .. Rome, Italy: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, pp. 500–509.

De Renzi, Silvia (2007). Un linceo alla Sapienza: la natura del fuoco e dei metalli in un’orazione di Johannes Faber. In: Battistini, Andrea; De Angelis, Gilberto and Olmi, Giuseppe eds. All'origine della scienza moderna: Federico Cesi e l'Accademia dei Lincei. Bologna: Il Mulino, pp. 271–316.

De Renzi, Silvia (2000). Writing and talking of exotic animals. In: Frasca-Spada, Marina and Jardine, Nick eds. Books and the Sciences in History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 151–170.

De Renzi, Silvia (2000). Accademia dei Lincei; Academia del Cimento. In: Hessenbruch, Arne ed. Reader's Guide to the History of Science. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, pp. 2–5.

De Renzi, Silvia (1999). 'A fountain for the thirsty' and a bank for the Pope: charity, conflicts, and medical careers at the Hospital of Santo Spirito in 17th Century. In: Grell, Ole Peter; Cunningham, Andrew and Arrizabalaga, Jon eds. Health Care and Poor Relief in Counter-Reformation Europe. London: Routledge, pp. 99–130.

De Renzi, Silvia (1998). Between the market and the Academy: Robert S Whipple (1871-1953) as a collector of science books. In: Myers, Robin and Harris, Michael eds. Medicine, Mortality and the Book Trade. Publishing pathways. Winchester: St. Paul Bibliographies, pp. 87–108.

Clericuzio, Antonio and De Renzi, Silvia (1995). Arcanarum Sagacissimi Indagatores Scientiarum; medicine, chemistry and alchemy in the early Accademia dei Lincei. In: Chambers, David and Quivigier, Francois eds. Italian Academies of the Sixteenth Century. Warburg Institute Colloquia (1). London: The Warburg Institute, pp. 175–194.

De Renzi, Silvia (2016). [Book Review] Forensic Medicine and Death Investigation in Medieval England, written by Sara M. Butler, 2015. Early Science and Medicine, 21(1) pp. 87–89.

De Renzi, Silvia (2011). A career in manuscripts: genres and purposes of a physician's writing in Rome, 1600-1630. Italian Studies, 66(2) pp. 234–248.

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De Renzi, Silvia (2010). The risks of childbirth: physicians, finance, and women's deaths in the law courts of seventeenth-century rome. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 84(4) pp. 549–577.

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De Renzi, Silvia (2007). Medical competence, anatomy and the polity in seventeenth-century Rome. Renaissance Studies, 21(4) pp. 551–567.

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De Renzi, Silvia (2007). Medical Expertise, Bodies, and the Law in Early Modern Courts. Isis, 98(2) pp. 315–322.

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De Renzi, Silvia (2002). Witnesses of the body: medico-legal cases in seventeenth-century Rome. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 33(2) pp. 219–242.

De Renzi, Silvia (2001). La natura in tribunale: conoscenze e pratiche medico-legali a Roma nel XVII secolo. Quaderni Storici, 108(3) pp. 799–822.

De Renzi, Silvia (1996). Courts and conversions: Intellectual battles and natural knowledge in counter-reformation Rome. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 27(4) pp. 429–449.