The authors
The volume is by Massimo Medica, director of the Civic Medieval Museum of Bologna and author of numerous essays and studies on the subject of Bolognese miniatures. Giancarlo Benevolo, historian of Bolognese art and culture between the Medieval and Renaissance periods, is in charge of the historic Archive and the educational Section of the Civic Museums of Antique Art of Bologna. After having been curator of the Manuscript Department of the British Library for many years, Peter Kidd is now considered to be one of the chief experts on illuminated miniatures and the history of the miniature in Britain.