Janis C. BellJanis Bell completed her Ph.D. in Art History at Brown University and taught for 12 years at Kenyon College, a four-year liberal arts college in Ohio. She received grants from the Fulbright Commission, the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (Villa I Tatti), and the American Academy in Rome. Her principal field of study is early modern Italian art and theory, in which she has published on Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Caravaggio, Zaccolini, and Bellori. She serves on the board of a new international journal dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci. Her recent publications deal with the reception of Leonardo in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, among which is a forthcoming edition and translation of Zaccolini's 'Prospettiva del colore.' Stefano Bruzzese majored in Philosophy and received his Ph.D. in Art History and Criticism from the University of Studies in Milan. He has written numerous studies on art and literature from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. He edited an edition of the letters of Guido Cagnola, a Lombard collector who was close to Bernard Berenson (2012), and a critical edition of the earliest history of the Milanese school by Antonio Francesco Albuzi (written in the late 1700s). He has completed a monograph on the Mazenta family in the Milan of Federico Borromeo and is currently preparing a study of the correspondence between Austen Henry Layard and Giovanni Morelli. Silvio Leydi, Ph.D. studied in Bologna, Turin and Florence (Villa I Tatti). His main interests lie in the social and material history of the sixteenth century, with a focus on Lombardy and Northern Italy. He has collaborated on miscellaneous volumes and international exhibitions, in which he has contributed essays and entries on the workshops of Milanese armorers, sculptors, medalists, crystal makers. He has published books on the imperial image in Milan in the sixteenth century (1999) and on the Milanese families d'Adda di Sale (2008) and Annoni (2015). He is currently preparing an edition of the 'Memorie' of the Milanese notary Giovan Pietro Fossano (1512-1559). Elisa Ruiz Garcia is Professor at the University of Madrid. She received her Ph.D. in Classic Philology at UCM, served as Professor of Greek in INEM, and is currently Emeritus Professor of Paleography and Diplomacy at UCM. In 2007, she became a member of the Spanish Royal Academy of History, and in 2017 she received the medal of Les Palmes Académiques of France. She has organized numerous exhibitions, and has published articles in professional journals and fourteen books, the most recent of which are 'Cartas a una mujer. Mathilde Pomès' (2017), 'Devocionario cisterciense de Herrenalb' (2017), 'El sueño del gran pájaro. Estudio del Códice sobre el vuelo de los pájaros de la Biblioteca Real de Turín' (2019), 'El monasterio de Guadalupe y la Inquisición' (2019), and 'Artemidoro de Éfeso. La interpretación de los sueños' (2021). Her study of BNF (Paris) MS Fr. 2929 is currently in press. Read More Read Less