Claudia Lazzaro is Professor in the Department of History of Art, Cornell University. She is the author of The Italian Renaissance Garden: From the Conventions of Planting, Design, and Ornament to the Grand Gardens of Sixteenth-Century Central Italy. Roger J. Crum is Associate Professor of Art History and Graul Chair in Arts and Languages at the University of Dayton. He is coeditor with John T. Paoletti of the forthcoming Florence: The Dynamics of Space in the Renaissance City.