Angela Dreßen
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Angela Dreßen studied art history, Romanistic philology , and geography in Münster and Rome, writing her doctoral thesis in Trier in 2005, followed by a Master's degree in Library and Information Sciencein Berlin in 2006. From 1999 to 2005, she was a  scientific collaborator at the libraries of the art historical Max-Planck-Institutes in Rome and Florence. Since 2005, Dreßen has held the position of academic librarian in Florence at the Biblioteca Berenson   atVilla I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. In 2009 she became  Andrew W. Mellon Librarian. Dreßen won the James Ackerman Award for the History of Architecture in 2007. Since 2006, she has been a member of the Renaissance Society of America. Her publications on the history of Italian art and  intellectual history in the Renaissance include the monographs: Pavimenti decorati del Quattrocento in Italia (2008); The Library of the Badia Fiesolana: Intellectual history and education under the Medici (1462-1494) (forthcoming).

Susanne Gramatzki
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Susanne Gramatzki studied romance studies, history of modern German literature, literary history of England, German studies, philosophy and general literature in Wuppertal and Besançon. She was a member of the  Graduate Research Colloquium "Die Renaissance in Italien und ihre europäische Rezeption: Kunst – Geschichte – Literatur" at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn (2000). Gramatzki wrote her doctoral thesis on the Rime by Michelangelo Buonarroti. From 2000 to 2009, she was a research associate at Universität Wuppertal; currently, she is an assistant at the Romance Seminar at Universität Tübingen. Gramatzki is also co-editor of the book series "Mittelalter und Renaissance in der Romania." Main  research interests: Italian Renaissance, interrelations between literature and the visual arts.