  The debate concerning the viability of f(R)-gravity as a natural extension of
General Relativity could be realistically addressed by using results coming
from binary pulsars like PSR 1913+16. To this end, we develop a quadrupolar
approach to the gravitational radiation for a class of ana- lytic f(R)-models.
We show that experimental results are compatible with a consistent range of
f(R)-models. This means that f(R)-gravity is not ruled out by the observations
and gravitational radiation (in strong field regime) could be a test-bed for
such theories.
