CONTRIBUTOR:

Brian Maxson

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Associate Professor

DEPARTMENT:

History

INSTITUTION:

East Tennessee State University

BIOGRAPHY:

Brian Jeffrey Maxson is associate professor of history at East Tennessee State University. He is the author of The Humanist World of Renaissance Florence (2014), and co-editor of several books, most recently Florence in the Early Modern World (2019, co-edited with Nicholas Scott Baker). He is currently working on a synthetic history of Renaissance Florence and a study of the distinction and manipulation of private and public conceptions in Renaissance Italy.