Nicholas Scott Baker is Senior Lecturer in early modern history at Macquarie University, Australia. He is the author of The Fruit of Liberty: Political Culture in the Florentine Renaissance, 1480-1550 (2013) and is completing a book on how Italians thought about the future during the Renaissance.

Brian Jeffrey Maxson is Associate Professor of History at East Tennessee State University, USA. He is the author of The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence (2014) and is currently working on a study of the distinction and manipulation of private and public conceptions in Renaissance Italy.