Kenneth Bartlett is Professor of History and Renaissance Studies at Victoria College, University of Toronto.  He is the author, editor, or translator of seven books, including, most recently, Florence in the Age of the Medici and Savonarola, 1464-1498 (Hackett, 2018). Ken has also produced five video series: The Italian Renaissance; The Italians Before Italy; The Development of European Civilization; Discovering Medieval Europe; and The Smithsonian/Great Courses Guide to Essential Italy.  A celebrated educator, he has been awarded the Victoria University Excellence in Teaching Award, the Students' Administrative Council Teaching Award, the Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award, the President’s Teaching Award, the Ontario government LIFT award and, in 2005, the prestigious 3M National Teaching Fellowship.  Gillian Bartlett received her PhD in Educational Theory from the University of Toronto in 1989. Her teaching career has ranged from high school to post-graduate adult education at institutions as varied as the National Ballet School, the University of Toronto Schools (UTS), Seneca College, and the School of Continuing Studies at UofT. In 2014 Gillian was awarded the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies outstanding Teaching Award.  Among numerous other books, Gillian is the author of all three volumes of McGraw Hill's Writing Power series; she has also contributed material to a number of language education texts. She has served as editor and script consultant for Ken’s Great Courses series on the Italian Renaissance and Western Europe as well as for the premier virtual reality tour of Venice produced by Oculus.

"An elegant tour of the republics and princely courts where the Italian Renaissance flourished. Bartlett presents a survey of glittering cultural, literary, and artistic achievements, never losing sight of the important political contexts in which they were made. The whole sweep of the Italian Renaissance—the fabulous wealth of its merchants, the ruthless schemes of its princes, the high ideals of its poets and writers, the astonishing works of its artists and architects, the struggles of its visionaries and reformers—comes into focus."—Margaret Meserve, University of Notre Dame

Kenneth Bartlett is Professor of History and Renaissance Studies at Victoria College, University of Toronto.  He is the author, editor, or translator of seven books, including, most recently, Florence in the Age of the Medici and Savonarola, 1464-1498 (Hackett, 2018). Ken has also produced five video series: The Italian Renaissance; The Italians Before Italy; The Development of European Civilization; Discovering Medieval Europe; and The Smithsonian/Great Courses Guide to Essential Italy.  A celebrated educator, he has been awarded the Victoria University Excellence in Teaching Award, the Students' Administrative Council Teaching Award, the Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award, the President’s Teaching Award, the Ontario government LIFT award and, in 2005, the prestigious 3M National Teaching Fellowship.  Gillian Bartlett received her PhD in Educational Theory from the University of Toronto in 1989. Her teaching career has ranged from high school to post-graduate adult education at institutions as varied as the National Ballet School, the University of Toronto Schools (UTS), Seneca College, and the School of Continuing Studies at UofT. In 2014 Gillian was awarded the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies outstanding Teaching Award.  Among numerous other books, Gillian is the author of all three volumes of McGraw Hill's Writing Power series; she has also contributed material to a number of language education texts. She has served as editor and script consultant for Ken’s Great Courses series on the Italian Renaissance and Western Europe as well as for the premier virtual reality tour of Venice produced by Oculus.

"An elegant tour of the republics and princely courts where the Italian Renaissance flourished. Bartlett presents a survey of glittering cultural, literary, and artistic achievements, never losing sight of the important political contexts in which they were made. The whole sweep of the Italian Renaissance—the fabulous wealth of its merchants, the ruthless schemes of its princes, the high ideals of its poets and writers, the astonishing works of its artists and architects, the struggles of its visionaries and reformers—comes into focus."—Margaret Meserve, University of Notre Dame

Kenneth Bartlett is Professor of History and Renaissance Studies at Victoria College, University of Toronto.  He is the author, editor, or translator of seven books, including, most recently, Florence in the Age of the Medici and Savonarola, 1464-1498 (Hackett, 2018). Ken has also produced five video series: The Italian Renaissance; The Italians Before Italy; The Development of European Civilization; Discovering Medieval Europe; and The Smithsonian/Great Courses Guide to Essential Italy.  A celebrated educator, he has been awarded the Victoria University Excellence in Teaching Award, the Students' Administrative Council Teaching Award, the Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award, the President’s Teaching Award, the Ontario government LIFT award and, in 2005, the prestigious 3M National Teaching Fellowship.  Gillian Bartlett received her PhD in Educational Theory from the University of Toronto in 1989. Her teaching career has ranged from high school to post-graduate adult education at institutions as varied as the National Ballet School, the University of Toronto Schools (UTS), Seneca College, and the School of Continuing Studies at UofT. In 2014 Gillian was awarded the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies outstanding Teaching Award.  Among numerous other books, Gillian is the author of all three volumes of McGraw Hill's Writing Power series; she has also contributed material to a number of language education texts. She has served as editor and script consultant for Ken’s Great Courses series on the Italian Renaissance and Western Europe as well as for the premier virtual reality tour of Venice produced by Oculus.

"An elegant tour of the republics and princely courts where the Italian Renaissance flourished. Bartlett presents a survey of glittering cultural, literary, and artistic achievements, never losing sight of the important political contexts in which they were made. The whole sweep of the Italian Renaissance—the fabulous wealth of its merchants, the ruthless schemes of its princes, the high ideals of its poets and writers, the astonishing works of its artists and architects, the struggles of its visionaries and reformers—comes into focus."—Margaret Meserve, University of Notre Dame