EDWARD GOLDBERG, Senior Scholar, received a Ph.D. in Modern History from Oxford University in 1979 and taught in the Department of Fine Arts at Harvard University from 1981 through 1987. He has published widely in the course of his twenty-five years of archival research in Florence, including "Patterns in Late Medici Art, Patronage" (Princeton, 1983) and "After Vasari" (Princeton, 1988.) Dr. Goldberg has been associated with the Medici Archive Project in various capacities since 1995 and is now based in Florence, where he is involved in all aspects of the Project's scholarly activity.

RITA MARIA COMANDUCCI, Project Researcher, completed a Degree in Letters and Philosophy at the University of Florence in 1992, with the thesis "Bernardo di Giovanni Rucellai: il politico e il letterato." In 1996, she published the definitive inventory of Rucellai's correspondence "Carteggio di Bernardo Rucellai: 1448-1514" (Olschki, Florence.) Dr. Comanducci has finished a Ph.D. in Economic History al the University of Verona, with a dissertation on "Botteghe d'arte a Firenze tra Quattro e Cinquecento." Dr. Comanducci is now curating The Medici Archive Project's publication of the "Ricordanze" of the sixteenth-century Florentine brocade weaver Guasparre di Matteo Landini.