CONTRIBUTOR:

John Monfasani

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor

DEPARTMENT:

History

INSTITUTION:

University at Albany, State University of New York

BIOGRAPHY:

John Monfasani received his PhD. in history from Columbia University in 1973. From 1971 to his retirement in 2016, he taught in the history department of the University at Albany, State University of New York, rising to the rank of Distinguished Professor. From 1995 to 2010 he was the Executive Director of the Renaissance Society of America. He has published extensively on Renaissance humanism and Greek émigrés to Renaissance Italy.