Christopher S. Celenza is a historian of the Italian Renaissance and dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University.
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Christopher S. Celenza is the James B. Knapp Dean of the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University, where he is also a professor of history and classics. A scholar of Renaissance intellectual history, classical scholarship, and Latin literature, he previously served as director of the American Academy in Rome from 2010 to 2014. He is the author of numerous books on Renaissance thought and humanism, including
Machiavelli: A Portrait and
The Intellectual World of the Italian Renaissance.
