Veronika Brandis , Ph.D. (2007), University of Dresden, is senior lecturer of Classical Philology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. Her research interests are inscriptions of the Early Modern period, the reception of classical authors, and history of education. Her main book publication is Die Grabinschriften der Hohenzollern (2009). Jan L. de Jong , Ph.D.

(1987), Leiden University, is emeritus professor of Early Modern Italian art at the University of Groningen. He has published The Power and the Glorification. Papal Pretensions and the Art of Propaganda in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (2013) and Tombs in Early Modern Rome (1400-1600). Monuments of Mourning, Memory and Meditation (2022). Robert Seidel , Dr. phil. (1992) and Dr. habil.

(2000), University of Heidelberg, is professor of German literature at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main. He has published books, articles and editions on German and Neo-Latin literature, most recently Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context (2021) and Nicodemus Frischlin: Korrespondenz. Mit Regesten und Kommentaren (2022).