Notes on the Editors
Maya Corry
is College Lecturer in Early Modern History at Oriel College, University of Oxford. Previously she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge, and Graduate Teaching and Research Scholar at the University of Oxford. She was a lead curator of the 2017 Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition Madonnas & Miracles. She works at the intersection of social and cultural history and the history of art, and researches the interrelationships between practices and beliefs relating to the body, religion, gender, sexuality and medicine in the early modern era. She is co-editor of Madonnas & Miracles: the Holy Home in Renaissance Italy (Philip Wilson: 2017), and has a forthcoming book Beautiful Bodies: Sexuality, Spirituality and Gender in Leonardo’s Milan with OUP.
Marco Faini
is Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow at the Universities of Venice and Toronto. Previously he was Instructor of Italian at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Research Associate at the Department of Italian, University of Cambridge, and fellow at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel. He works on comic, macaronic and mock-heroic literature, biblical epic and devotional literature. His book La porpora e l’alloro: Vita di Pietro Bembo (Rome: 2016) has been translated into English and French. He is the co-editor of Books for Captains and Captains in Books. Shaping the Perfect Military Commander in Early Modern Europe (Wiesbaden: 2016). He is presently co-editing a Companion to Pietro Aretino (Leiden – Boston: forthcoming).
Alessia Meneghin
was Ahmanson Fellow at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence. She was Research Associate in the Faculty of History at the University of Cambridge, Assistant Investigator for The Anatomy and Physiology of Renaissance Florence: The Dynamics of Social Change in the Fifteenth Century project at the University of Sydney, and former Fellow of the Society for Renaissance Studies. Her published work focuses on issues of credit, consumption, identity and social mobility of the Arti Minori in Renaissance Florence and Tuscany. She is the author of a book on the Tuscan Misericordie: Serbatoi di umanità. La Misericordia e i suoi volontari nella storia (Pisa: 2017). She has a forthcoming volume on rigattieri (The Social Fabric of Fifteenth-Century Florence: Identities and Change in the World of Second-hand Dealers) with Routledge.