Edward Chaney taught at the University of Pisa for six years and was an associate at Harvard University’s Villa I Tatti in Florence while working on this book. His Warburg Institute Ph.D. on seventeenth-century travel in Italy was published as The Grand Tour and the Great Rebellion. His more recent books include The Evolution of the Grand Tour and an edition of Jones’s Roman Sketchbook. He is now professor of at the Southampton Institute.