Werner L. Gundersheimer

Folger Library, Washington, D.C.

January–June 2003

Werner L. Gundersheimer is director emeritus of the Folger Library in Washington, DC. His extensive publications on Italian Renaissance art and culture include Ferrara: The Style of a Renaissance Despotism (Princeton University Press, 1973). His current project, After the Grand Tour: Italy as Cultural Capital, 1814-1914, will consolidate much of his wide-ranging scholarship while taking up one of his earliest interests: the public’s passionate attraction to Italian art and culture.