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includes L’editoria veneziana nel ’700 (Milan, 1989), Prima dei giornali:
Alle origini della pubblica informazione (Rome, 2002), and (with Lodovica
Braida) Libri per tutti: Generi editoriali di larga circolazione tra antico
regime ed età contemporanea (Turin, 2010). His research is currently cen-
tered on free thinking and libertinism in the 17th century.
Margaret L. King (Stanford University, 1972) is professor of history emerita,
Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is a specialist in the
fields of humanism, Renaissance Venice, women and learning, and the his-
tory of childhood, in which she has published three monographs, four col-
lections, editions, and translations, and two textbooks, and, most recently
(2010 and 2011), four annotated bibliographies for the Oxford Bibliographies
module Renaissance/Reformation on “Family and Childhood,” “Renais-
sance,” “Venice,” and “Women and Learning.” Her book Mothers and Sons:
A History will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2013.
Michael Knapton (Oxford University, 1979) is associate professor of early
modern/modern history at the Languages Faculty of the Università di
Udine. Since 1972 he has conducted research on the Republic of Venice,
with special attention to its mainland dominions and to themes of political
and social history, including public finance, covering the period from the
12th to the 18th centuries. His recent publications include “Le campagne
trevigiane: i frutti di una ricerca,” in Società e Storia 130 (2010), and “Venice
and the Terraferma,” in The Italian Renaissance State (Cambridge, 2012).
He is currently working with Andrea Zannini on a joint book entitled A
Republican Empire—the Venetian Mainland State, 1509–1797.
Dulcia Meijers (Radboud University of Nijmegen, 1982) is the Executive
Director of Emerson College’s European Center. She is a specialist in Vene-
tian architectural history in the late Renaissance and Baroque periods,
and her publications include (with B. Aikema) Nel regno dei poveri: Arte
e storia dei grandi ospedali veneziani in età moderna, 1474–1797 (Venice,
1989) and De gouden schemer van Venetie: Een portret van de Venetiaanse
adel in de achttiende eeuw (The Hague, 1991).
Silvana Seidel Menchi (Universität Basel, 1968) was a professor of history at
the Università di Pisa from 2003 until her retirement in 2010. She is a special-
ist in early modern and modern Italy, and her publications include (with
D. Quaglioni) I tribunali del matrimonio, secoli XV–XVIII ( Bologna, 2006)