Victoria Avery Author & Editor

Victoria Avery FSA is Keeper of Applied Arts at The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge.She has published extensively on Italian Renaissance sculpture, and was awarded the Premio Salibeni 2012 for her monograph, Vulcan's Forge in Venus' City: The Story of Bronze in Venice, 1350 - 1650 (2011). Melissa Calaresu is the McKendrick Lecturer in History at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. She has written on the Grand Tour, autobiographical writing, urban space, political reform and, most recently, the making and eating of ice cream in eighteenth-century Naples. Mary Laven is Reader in Early Modern History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Jesus College. She has written extensively about aspects of religion in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy and is now working on 'Domestic Devotions', an interdisciplinary, collaborative project, funded by the European Research Council.