Editor in Chief

Massimiliano Rossi lectures in History of Art Criticism at the University of Salento (associate professor from 1998, full professor since 2003). He graduated from the faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Pisa in 1988 and obtained his Ph.D. at the Scuola Superiore Normale di Pisa in 1992. He was Fellow (1992/1993) and then Research Associate (1997/2003) at Villa Tatti in Florence. He is currently President of SISCA (Associazione Italiana di Storia della Critica d’Arte ETS – Consulta Universitaria). For many years his work has been focussed on the figurative fortune of the Italian classical literature – Dante, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Tasso - and the tradition of writer-artists of the first modern age – (Bronzino, Danese Cataneo, Francesco Furini, Sebastiano Mazzoni). He has also studied the Medici’s political iconography and collecting, both mnemonic and more general illustration, the cultural interests of Galileo and the Florentine academies, and the artistic literature of the modern age (Pietro Aretino, Vasari, Lomazzo, Boschini, Baldinucci, Lanzi, Cicognara).