Contesting the Renaissance. By William Caferro. Contesting the Past. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Pp. viii+253. $84.95 (cloth); $34.95 (paper).

Sara Galletti received an M.Arch. from IUAV (Venice) and a joint Ph.D. in the History of Architecture from the Sorbonne (Paris) and IUAV. Her field of research is early modern architectural theory and practice, with a focus on 16th- and 17th-century Europe and the Mediterranean. She has published on secular and religious architecture, on Philibert de L'Orme, on the urban history of Paris, on the relations between space and social structures, as well as on the history of stereotomy.