About the Author

Brendan Dooley is an associate professor in the Department of History at Harvard University.

Reviews

Dooley has vividly illustrated this largely untold story and suggested many of its implications for intellectual history.--Donald R. Kelley "International Journal of the Classical Tradition "

He provides an important corrective to the widely held view that Italy was a cultural backwater and brings one strand of early modern Italian cultural history, largely terra incognita to non-Italian historians, to light.--Barbara Shapiro "American Historical Review "

"Dooley has vividly illustrated this largely untold story and suggested many of its implications for intellectual history." -- Donald R. Kelley, International Journal of the Classical Tradition

"He provides an important corrective to the widely held view that Italy was a cultural backwater and brings one strand of early modern Italian cultural history, largely terra incognita to non-Italian historians, to light." -- Barbara Shapiro, American Historical Review