Contributors
Renata Ago
retired as Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Rome, La Sapienza in 2017. A specialist in social and economic history, her books include Gusto for Things. A History of Objects in Seventeenth-Century Rome (University of Chicago Press, 2013; orig. Italian, 2006).
Elisa Andretta
is Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône Alpes, Lyon. An expert in medicine and natural history in Renaissance Rome, she is the author of Roma medica. Anatomie dâun système medical au 16e siècle (Ãcole Française de Rome, 2011).
Katherine Aron-Beller
is Lecturer at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and at Tel Aviv University. Her areas of expertise are early modern Jewish-Christian relations, the Italian Inquisition, and anti-Semitism. Her books include Jews on Trial: The Papal Inquisition in Modena 1598â1638 (Manchester University Press, 2011).
Lisa Beaven
is Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at La Trobe University. A specialist in early modern Roman patronage and collecting, she is the author of An Ardent Patron: Cardinal Camillo Massimo and His Artistic and Antiquarian Circle (Paul Holberton Press and Centro de Estudios Europa Hispánica, 2010) and Baroque to Neo-baroque: Emotion and the Seduction of the Senses (coedited with Angela Ndalianis), forthcoming from Medieval Institute Press.
Eleonora Canepari
Researcher in Early Modern History at Aix-Marseille University, studies migrations and mobility in urban society. Her publications include La construction du pouvoir local: élites municipales, liens sociaux et transactions économiques dans lâespace urbain, Rome, 1550â1650 (Ãcole Française de Rome, 2017).
Christopher Carlsmith
is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He specializes in the history of education, childhood, and academic societies. He is the author of A Renaissance Education: Schooling in Bergamo and the Venetian Republic, 1500â1650 (University of Toronto Press, 2010).
Patrizia Cavazzini
is Research Fellow at the British School in Rome. She is the author of Painting as Business in Seventeenth-century Rome (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008), and has published on various aspects of the production and commercialization of paintings in Baroque Rome.
Elizabeth S. Cohen
Professor of History at York University in Toronto, is an expert in the social and gender history of early modern Rome. Among many publications, she is the co-author (with Thomas V. Cohen) of Daily Life in Renaissance Italy (Greenwood Press, 2001) and Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome (University of Toronto Press, 1993).
Thomas V. Cohen
Professor of History at York University in Toronto, specializes in the social, cultural, and political anthropology of 16th-century Rome. His books include Love and Death in Renaissance Italy (University of Chicago Press, 2004) and (with Elizabeth S. Cohen) Words and Deeds in Renaissance Rome (University of Toronto Press, 1993).
Jeffrey Collins
Professor of Art History and Material Culture at the Bard Graduate Center, is a specialist in early modern Europe and Latin America. He is the author of Papacy and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Rome: Pius VI and the Arts (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and a principal contributor to the coedited volume History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400â2000 (Bard Graduate Center and Yale University Press, 2013).
Simon Ditchfield
is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of York (UK). His books include Papacy and Peoples: The Making of Roman Catholicism as a World Religion, 1500â1700 (Oxford University Press, forthcoming), and Liturgy, Sanctity and History in Tridentine Italy: Pietro Maria Campi and the preservation of the particular (Cambridge University Press, 1995).
Anna Esposito
is Professor of Medieval History at the University of Rome, La Sapienza. A specialist in urban social history examined in its economic, religious, gendered, and cultural aspects, her many books include Unâaltra Roma. Minoranze nazionali e comunità ebraiche tra Medioevo e Rinascimento (Editrice âil Calamoâ, 1995) and the edited volume Lucrezia e le altre: la vita difficile delle donne (Roma e Lazio, secc. XVâXVI) (Roma nel Rinascimento, 2015).
Federica Favino
is Researcher in the Department of History of the University of Rome, La Sapienza. An expert in the history of science, she is the author of La filosofia naturale di Giovanni Ciampoli (Olschki, 2015).
Daniele V. Filippi
is Research Fellow at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel, Switzerland). He specializes in early modern music and historical soundscapes, and is the author of Selva armonica: La musica spirituale a Roma fra Cinque e Seicento (Brepols, 2008).
Irene Fosi
Professor of Modern History, University of Chieti-Pescara, studies justice and religious conversion in Baroque Italy. Her books include Papal Justice. Subjects and Court in the Papal State, (1500â1750) (Catholic University of America Press, 2011), and Convertire lo straniero. Stranieri e Inquisizione a Roma in età moderna (Viella, 2011; English trans. Brill, 2018).
Kenneth Gouwens
Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, is a specialist in the humanist culture of Rome under the Medici popes. His publications include a critical edition and translation of Paolo Giovioâs dialogue, Notable Men and Women of Our Time (Harvard University Press, 2013).
Giuseppe Antonio Guazzelli
is an independent scholar. His main research interests include the history and development of the Catholic Martyrology in the 15th and 16th centuries and the history of scholarship after the Reformation. He is the co-editor (with F. Scorza Barcellona and R. Michetti) of Cesare Baronio tra santità e scrittura storica (Viella, 2012).
John M. Hunt
Assistant Professor of History at Utah Valley University, investigates the social history of early modern Italy and the Mediterranean, with a current focus on gaming and sociability in Rome and Venice. He is the author of The Vacant See in Early Modern Rome: A Social History of the Papal Interregnum (Brill, 2016).
Pamela M. Jones
is Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Massachusetts Boston. A specialist in art and religious culture, her books include Altarpieces and Their Viewers in the Churches of Rome from Caravaggio to Guido Reni (Routledge, 2016; Ashgate, 2008) and (co-edited with Thomas Worcester) From Rome to Eternity. Catholicism and the Arts in Italy, ca. 1550â1650 (Brill, 2002).
Carla Keyvanian
is Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at Auburn University. An expert in early modern architectural and urban history, she is the author of Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome 1200â1500 (Brill, 2015).
Margaret A. Kuntz
Professor of Art History at Drew University, is a specialist in early modern Rome, with a focus on the Vaticanâs architecture, decorations, and ceremonial practices. Her book-in-progress is titled Structuring Ceremonial and Ritual Spaces: The Pauline Chapel in the Vatican Palace and New St. Peterâs from Michelangelo to Bernini.
Stephanie C. Leone
Associate Professor of Art History at Boston College, is a specialist in secular art, architecture, and material culture. She is the author of The Palazzo Pamphilj in Piazza Navona: Constructing Identity in Early Modern Rome (Harvey Miller, 2008).
Evelyn Lincoln
is Professor of Art History and Italian Studies at Brown University. A specialist in the history of Roman print culture and book illustration, her books include Brilliant Discourse: Pictures and Readers in Early Modern Rome (Yale University Press, 2014).
Jessica Maier
is Associate Professor of Art History at Mount Holyoke College. Her area of expertise is Renaissance cartography and print culture, and she is the author of Rome Measured and Imagined: Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City (University of Chicago Press, 2015).
Laurie Nussdorfer
is Professor Emerita of History and Letters at Wesleyan University. Her work focuses on the social, political, and cultural history of early modern Rome. Her major publications include Brokers of Public Trust: Notaries in Early Modern Rome (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009) and Civic Politics in the Rome of Urban VIII (Princeton, 1992).
Toby Osborne
Associate Professor of History at the University of Durham, is a specialist in court history and diplomatic culture. He is the author of Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy (Cambridge University Press, 2002).
Miles Pattenden
teaches History at Wolfson College, Oxford. He studies the institutional Church during the Ancien Régime and is the author of Electing the Pope in Early Modern Italy, 1450â1700 (Oxford University Press, 2017).
Denis Ribouillault
Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Montreal, is a specialist in gardens and landscape studies. His publications include Rome en ses jardins. Paysage et pouvoir au XVIe siècle (Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques/Institut national dâhistoire de lâart, Paris, 2013).
Katherine W. Rinne
is Adjunct Professor of Architecture at California College of the Arts. A specialist in Romeâs hydraulic history from antiquity to the present day, her books include The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City (Yale University Press, 2010).
Minou Schraven
teaches art history and museum studies at Amsterdam University College. An expert in early modern festivals and ceremonies, she is author of Festive Funerals. The Art and Culture of Conspicuous Commemoration (Ashgate, 2014) and co-editor (with Maarten Delbeke) of Foundation, Dedication, and Consecration in Early Modern Europe (Brill, 2012).
John Beldon Scott
is Professor Emeritus at the University of Iowa. A specialist in the art, architecture, and urbanism of early modern Italy, his books include Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin (University of Chicago Press, 2003) and Images of Nepotism: The Painted Ceilings of Palazzo Barberini (Princeton University Press, 1991).
Barbara Wisch
is Professor Emerita of Art History at the State University of New York College at Cortland. She studies Roman visual, festive, and religious culture. Her books include Acting on Faith: The Confraternity of the Gonfalone in Renaissance Rome (St. Josephâs University Press, 2013), co-authored with Nerida Newbigin, and the co-edited âAll the worldâs a stage â¦â Art and Pageantry in the Renaissance and Baroque (Department of Art History, The Pennsylvania State University, 1990).
Arnold A. Witte
is Associate Professor of Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam and Head of Art History at the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. He specializes in religious patronage in Baroque Rome and published The Artful Hermitage. The Palazzetto Farnese as a Counter-reformation Diaeta, Rome (LâErma di Bretschneider, 2008).