Contributors

Series editor Robert Kahn is an architect in private practice. His work has been widely published. He has taught design, most recently at Yale University. In 1981 he was awarded the Prix de Rome by the American Academy in Rome. He lives with his wife Fiona in New York City and Shelter Island.

Members of Save Venice, Inc. have generously shared their personal and professional insights in City Secrets Florence, Venice & the Towns of Italy. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the guides will help support the oorganization's ngoing programs.

Save Venice, Inc. is an American non-profit organization based in New York with a second office in Venice, Italy and chapters in California and Boston. The mission of Save Venice is to preserve the art and architecture of Venice and to safeguard its cultural heritage by raising funds and providing educational programs. Founded in 1971, Save Venice has provided funding for the restoration of more than one hundred important works of art and buildings in Venice.

City Secrets Florence, Venice & the Towns of Italy

Beth van Hoesen Adams, artist and printmaker
Ross Anderson, architect
Nicholas Arcomano, vice-president and counsel, SESAC, Inc
Cameron Elizabeth Barrett, assistant editor, Where Rome Magazine
Lidia Matticchio Bastianich, restaurateur
Jack Beal, painter
Frederick Biehle, architect
George Bisacca, conservator of paintings, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Chester Biscardi, composer
Lana Bortolot, journalist based in New York City and Rome
Elizabeth Boults, San Francisco bay area designer
Katey Brown, art historian, University of Georgia Studies Abroad Program
Margaret A. Brucia, Latin teacher
Gregory S. Bucher, classicist
Virginia L. Bush, art historian
Michael Cadwell, associate professor, Knowlton School of Architecture, The Ohio State University
Andrea Callard, artist
Caren Canier, painter
Claudia Cannizzaro, coordinator for the Fellows program of the Civitella Ranieri Center
John Carswell, curator and art historian
Luigi Centola, architect
Adele Chatfield-Taylor, President of the American Academy in Rome
Keith Christiansen, Curator of Italian Paintings, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Jean Conlon, photographers' agent
William B. Conlon, painter
Pablo Conrad, writer and editor, living and teaching in Brooklyn
Pier Consagra, artist
Francesca Dell'Acqua, art historian
Eric Denker, art historian and senior lecturer, National Gallery of Art
Mary Ann Haick DiNapoli, genealogist
Judith DiMaio, architect
Simon Dinnerstein, artist and professor of studio art
Paul DiPasquale, sculptor
Kathe Dyson, traveler
Geraldine Erman, artist
Robert Evans, architect
Lawrence Fane, sculptor
Susan Farricielli, product designer
Richard L. Feigen, art dealer
Gail Feigenbaum, curator of painting, New Orleans Museum of Art
Alan Feltus, painter, Assisi, Italy
James Fenton, writer
Helen Costantino Fioratti, interior designer
Philip Freeman, classicist
M. Paul Friedberg, landscape architect
Jan Gadeyne, archaeologist and art historian of Roman antiquity
Cecelia Galiena, director of the Civitella Ranieri Center
Katherine Allston Geffcken, professor of Latin and Greek, emerita, Wellesley College
Linda W. Rutland Gillison, associate professor of classics, University of Montana-Missoula
Giancarlo Giubilaro, operations manager of the Civitella Ranieri Center
Rona Goffen, professor of art history, Rutgers University
Norma Wynick Goldman, adjunct professor, Wayne State University
Alexander Gorlin, architect
Robert Berkeley Green, artist and teacher
Michael Gruber, architect
Beatrice H. Guthrie, former executive director of Save Venice
Robert Mitchell Hanna, landscape architect
Marcella Hazan, cookbook author and educator
Ursula Heibges, classicist
James J. Hennessey, professor of painting, Maryland Institute
Pamela Potter Hennessey, art historian and assistant professor of art history, Ursinus College
Martie Holmer, artist
Edith Isaac-Rose, painter and teacher
Emilie Johnson, curatorial assistant, the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Robert Kahn, architect
John Kearney, sculptor
Lynn Kearney, artist and curator
Pamela Keech, artist, historian, curator, and sculptor
John F. Kenfield, associate professor of Greek art, Rutgers University
Dave King, writer
Susan Kleinberg, artist
Gordon Knox, director of the Civitella Ranieri Center
David Konstan, professor of classics, Brown University
Swietlan N. Kraczyna, artist and printmaker
Peter Harris Kross, veterinarian
James M. Lattis, historian of astronomy
John C. Leavey, painter
Arthur Levering, composer
Robert Livesey, architect
Barbara Lynn-Davis, art historian and writer
Thomas F. Madden, professor of medieval history, Saint Louis University
John Marciari, professor of art history, Loyola College
Michael Marlais, professor of art history, Colby College
Judith Martin, journalist
Charles Matz, Professor of Humanities
Margaret Spencer Matz, architect
James McGarrell, painter
Gregory McNamee, author and editor
Melissa Meyer, artist
D. B. Middleton, architect
Jan Morris, writer
Gianfranco Mossetto, merchant banker
Gwynn Murrill, sculptor
Helen Nagy, art historian
Helen F. North, professor of classics emerita, Swarthmore College
John Julius Norwich, author of A History of Venice and Venice: A Traveler's Companion
Jane Oliensis, director of Humanities Spring, a summer program for Classical and Renaissance study in Assisi
Jacqueline Osherow, poet
Paul Pascal, professor emeritus of Latin
Andrew Patrick, geologist and earth science teacher
Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, musicologist and biographer
Sam Posey, race car driver, artist and designer
Dana Prescott, artist and writer
Gillian Price, author
Ernst Pulgram, historical linguist
Theodore K. Rabb, professor of history, Princeton University
Leslie Rainer, conservator of wall paintings
Anton Rajer, conservator
Saskia Reilly, author of Living, Studying and Working in France
L. Richardson Jr, professor of Latin
Carole Robb, painter
Mark Rudman, poet, essayist, and translator
Wayne Ruga, social architect
Carol Saper, private art dealer
Celia E. Schultz, classicist
Charles P. Segal, professor of classics, Harvard University
Joan Silber, fiction writer
Susan Silberberg-Peirce, photographer and Greco-Roman art historian
Thomas Silva, architect
Sally Spector, artist
Frederick Steiner, professor of Planning and Landscape Architecture, Arizona State University
Chip Sullivan, associate professor of landscape architecture
Wayne Taylor, artist, architect, and Professor Emeritus, School of Design, North Carolina State University
Sallie Tisdale, writer
Stephen Tobriner, professor of architectural history, University of California Berkeley
John Varriano, professor of Art History, Mount Holyoke College
William E. Wallace, professor of art history, Washington University
Marianne Weil, sculptor
Fred Wessel, artist and professor, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford
Rebecca J. West, professor of Italian literature and cinema studies, University of Chicago
Andrew Wielawski, sculptor
Ann Thomas Wilkins, associate professor of classics, Duquesne University
David G. Wilkins, chair and professor of the history of art and architecture, University of Pittsburgh
John Wilton-Ely, art historian
David Winter, sculptor
Nancy A. Winter, archaeologist and librarian of the American School of Classical Studies, Athens
John L. Wong, landscape architect, San Francisco, California
Susan E. Wood, professor of art history, Oakland University
Jack Zajac, painter and sculptor