Susanna de Beer studied Classics at Leiden University and holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. She is Senior Lecturer in (Renaissance) Latin Literature and Early Modern Studies at Leiden University, with a specialization in Classical Reception Studies, Renaissance Humanism, and Digital Humanities. She is currently on detachment as Director of Ancient Studies and Classical Receptions at the Royal Netherlands Institute (KNIR) in Rome. In 2009 she co-edited The Neo-Latin Epigram: A Learned and Witty Genre and in 2013 she published The Poetics of Patronage: Poetry as Self-Advancement in Giannantonio Campano.

• Acknowledgements Conventions Introduction: Forging Privileged Links to an Idealized Past 1: A New Golden Age. Rome Reclaims her Ancient Past 2: Competing Appropriations of Rome's Empire without End 3: Weaponized Images of Roman Virtue and Vice 4: The Symbolic Resonances of Rome's Cityscape 5: The Humanist Poets as "New Romans" Epilogue Appendix of Humanist Authors Bibliography Illustrations Index locorum General Index

The Renaissance Battle for Rome as a Renaissance sequel to Edwards' seminal book. B. displays an impressive level of scholarship...The book is enhanced by nearly thirty illustrations, many of which are in colour. The book will be of interest to scholars of the Renaissance, and those interested in classical reception studies.