Acknowledgments
We have conceptualized this volume to convey the rich and multilayered nature of early modern Rome, while suggesting the exciting intersections of the selected themes and various academic disciplines. To ensure that the volumeâs contributors could personally exchange ideas with one another, with the generous assistance of its director, Professor Marcello Verga and his staff, we organized a workshop in Rome at the Istituto Storico Italiano per lâetà Moderna e Contemporanea in the historic Palazzo Antici Mattei di Giove in March 2016. We also sponsored two sessions at the Renaissance Society of Americaâs annual meeting in Boston a few weeks later: a panel, âShaping Time and Space in Early Modern Rome: Gardens, Palaces, and Maps;â and a roundtable, âRioni di Roma: Peopling the City c.1500âc.1650.â The fruitful discussions among participants from both sides of the Atlantic afforded a particularly stimulating engagement with overlapping themes and new perspectives, which characterizes the chapters. We would like to thank all the contributors for their willingness to collaborate and attend to deadlines. We have learned so much from each of you.
Our special gratitude goes to all our editors and their staff at Brill: Marcella Mulder, who initiated this project, and Elisa Perotti and David Aberrà , who saw it through. In particular, we would like to acknowledge the two readers selected by the press, Franco Mormando and Camilla Russell, who chose to identify themselves. Their wide-ranging knowledge, close reading of the text, and incisive critiques have vastly improved the volume. We are responsible for any mistakes that remain.