About the Consulting Editor ............
Konrad Eisenbichler teaches Renaissance Studies at the University of
Toronto. A past Director of the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance
Studies (1990–2000), he has published widely and extensively on a vari-
ety of subjects in early modern studies, from Michelangelo to Savon-
arola, from teenagers to widows, from confraternities to theatre. His
book,The Boys of the Archangel Raphael. A Youth Confraternity in Flo-
rence, 1411–1785(Toronto, 1998) won the Howard R. Marraro Prize
awarded by the American Catholic Historical Association.