Beauty and the Terror The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West

Catherine Fletcher was born in 1975 in Birkenhead and spent her teenage years in Scotland. She graduated with a First in Politics and Communication Studies from the University of Liverpool in 1996. After a stint in student politics (when she campaigned against the introduction of university tuition fees) she worked for the BBC Political Unit and BBC Parliament as a researcher and TV producer. A holiday in Florence sparked an interest in Renaissance history and in 2004 she changed career and went back to university to study for a PhD in History at Royal Holloway, University of London. She subsequently held research fellowships at the British School at Rome and the European University…  More Institute in Florence and has published several articles on Renaissance history. In 2011-12 she will take up a Lectureship in Early Modern History at the University of Durham. Our Man in Rome is her first book.  Less