Patricia Emison is Professor at the University of New Hampshire. A contributor to various exhibitions of early modern engravings, etchings, and woodcuts, she is also the author of The Italian Renaissance and Cultural Memory (2012), The Shaping of Art History: Meditations on a Discipline (2008), and Creating the 'Divine' Artist from Dante to Michelangelo (2004), as well as a chapter on 'Ideas: Philosophy, Religion, History', in A Cultural History of Memory, vol. 3, M. Tamm and A. Arcangeli, eds. (2020).