Notes on Contributors
James R. Banker
is professor emeritus in the history department at North Carolina State University. He continues his research and writing on Piero della Francesca and Quattrocento Italy.
Jérémie Barthas
is a tenured researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), Institute for Modern and Contemporary History (IHMC—UMR 8066, Paris), and an associated researcher to the Centre for the Study of the History of Political Thought (London).
Davide Baldi Bellini
is a contract professor at the University of Florence. He deals mainly with Byzantine culture and humanism; his publications are numerous and various ranging from Greek Lexicography up to Greek teaching in Florence.
Jane Black
has written articles on Milan and Florence in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and is author of Absolutism in Renaissance Milan: Plenitude of Power under the Visconti and the Sforza 1329–1535 (Oxford, 2009).
Lorenz Böninger
is an independent scholar who has published widely on Florentine Renaissance history. His latest book is Niccolò di Lorenzo della Magna and the Social World of Florentine Printing, ca. 1470–1493 (Harvard University Press, 2021).
Jonathan Davies
is Associate Professor in Italian Renaissance History at the University of Warwick. His publications include Florence and its University during the Early Renaissance (Brill, 1993) and Culture and Power: Tuscany and its Universities 1537–1609 (Brill, 2009).
James Hankins
is Professor of History at Harvard University and General Editor of the I Tatti Renaissance Library. His Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy was published in 2019 by the Belknap Press of Harvard University.
John Monfasani
is a Distinguished Research Professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He served as the Executive Director of the Renaissance Society of America, 1995–2010.
John M. Najemy
professor of history emeritus at Cornell University, has explored the history of Florence and the writings of Machiavelli and other medieval-Renaissance Italian authors in several books and many essays. His Machiavelli’s Broken World is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.
Brian Richardson
is Emeritus Professor of Italian Language at the University of Leeds. His research interests centre on the history of the Italian language and the history of the circulation of texts in late medieval and Renaissance Italy.