Flavia Bruni is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Rome La Sapienza and a Honorary Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. She has a Master in History of the Reformation from the Sapienza University of Rome, a Master in Early Printed Books from the University of Siena, a PhD from Bologna and the diploma from the Vatican Library School. She has worked for the bibliography of sixteenth-century Italian books Edit16, the Italian collective catalogue SBN, the project on broadsheets of the Inquisition of the Biblioteca Casanatense of Rome and the RICI on sixteenth-century booklists of Italian religious houses. She is responsible for the survey of seventeenth-century Italian editions for the Universal Short Title Catalogue and currently working on her second monograph on censorship in Counter-Reformation Italy (forthcoming Brill, 2017).
Andrew Pettegree is Professor of Modern History at the University of St Andrews and Director of the
Universal Short Title Catalogue. He is the author of over a dozen books in the fields of Reformation history and the history of communication, including
Reformation and the Culture of Persuasion (Cambridge University Press, 2005),
The Book in the Renaissance (Yale University Press, 2010) and
The Invention of News (Yale University Press, 2014). His most recent book,
Brand Luther: 1517, Print and the Making of the Reformation (Penguin USA) was published in October 2015. His new projects include a study of Newspaper Advertising in the Low Countries and 'Preserving the World’s Rarest Books', a collaborative project with libraries, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
