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Romance Studies, and the Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie. He is cur-
rently working on a monograph entitled Saggi di Lingua e Cultura Veneta
(Padua, 2013) that explores interlinked themes in the language, culture,
and history of Venice and the Veneto.
Jonathan Glixon (Princeton University, 1979) is Provost’s Distinguished
Service Professor and professor of Musicology at the University of Ken-
tucky. A specialist in the music of medieval and early modern Venice, his
publications include Honoring God and the City: Music at the Venetian Con-
fraternities, 1260–1807 (New York, 2003) and (with Beth Glixon) Inventing
the Business of Opera: The Impresario and His World in Mid-Seventeenth-
Century Venice (New York, 2005). He is currently working on a book about
music for and by Venetian nuns and, with Beth Glixon, a critical edition
of Francesco Cavalli’s 1656 opera Erismena.
Paul F. Grendler (University of Wisconsin, 1964) is professor of history
emeritus of the University of Toronto. He is the author of nine books on
Renaissance Italy and was editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia of the Renais-
sance (New York, 1999). His most recent books are The University of
Mantua, the Gonzaga & the Jesuits, 1584–1630 (Baltimore, 2009) and The
European Renaissance in American Life (Westport, 2006). He is currently
preparing a book tentatively entitled Jesuit Schools and Italian Universities,
1548–1773.
Deborah Howard (Courtauld Institute of Art, 1973) is professor of archi-
tectural history in the University of Cambridge, where she is also a Fellow
of St John’s College, Cambridge. Her research has focused on the art and
architecture of Venice and the Veneto; architecture and music; and cul-
tural exchange in the eastern Mediterranean. Her most recent books are
(with Laura Moretti) Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture,
Music, Acoustics (New Haven, 2009) and Venice Disputed: Marc’Antonio
Barbaro and Venetian Architecture 1550–1600 (New Haven, 2011). Her prin-
cipal current project is concerned with architecture and technology in
Venice and the Veneto in the early modern period.
Mario Infelise (Università di Padova, 1976) is professor of cultural his-
tory and the history of the book at the Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.
His area of expertise is book printing and censorship from the Counter-
Reformation through the age of the Enlightenment. His bibliography