Battilotti taught History of Architecture at the University of Udine until 2023. Her research focuses primarily on Andrea Palladio, the urban and territorial history of sixteenth-century Vicenza, and the Venetian villas. Her publications include Vicenza al tempo di Andrea Palladio attraverso i libri dell’estimo del 1563-1564 (1980), Le ville di Palladio (1990), the updated edition of Lionello Puppi’s monograph Andrea Palladio (1999), the edited volume on the villas of the province of Vicenza for the Istituto Regionale Ville Venete (2005), and Le mura di Vicenza nel Cinquecento. Cronaca di un fallimento (2020). Since 2003, she has been a member of the Academic Committee of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura Andrea Palladio and is also a member of the Accademia Olimpica of Vicenza.

Guido Beltramini has been director of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura (CISAAP) since 1991. He was a contract professor at the University of Ferrara from 1994 to 2002 and has been a visiting professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design since 2015. His main interest is the history of Renaissance architecture, with a special focus on Palladio, Venetian architecture, the art of war, and the study of the Antique.

Chairman of the CISAAP Advisory Board, Howard Burns has taught at the University of Cambridge, the Courtauld Institute of Art, Harvard University, the IUAV, Venice, and the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, of which he is now professor emeritus. He has played a major role in the preparation of all the CISAAP exhibitions as well as in the organisation of exhibitions on Raphael (Rome, 1984), Giulio Romano (Mantua, 1989) and Francesco di Giorgio (Siena, 1993). His publications include essays on Filippo Brunelleschi, Leon Battista Alberti, Francesco di Giorgio, Raphael, Baldassarre Peruzzi, Giulio Romano, Pirro Ligorio, Michele Sanmicheli and Michelangelo.

Gianmario Guidarelli is Associate Professor of Architectural History at the University of Padua (DICEA) and Adjunct Professor at the Theological Faculty of Triveneto. He coordinates the projects Chiese di Venezia. Nuove prospettive di ricerca, Armonie Composte. Ciclo di seminari sul paesaggio monastico (with Elena Svalduz), and La città medievale. La città dei frati. Medieval city. City of the friars (with Silvia Beltramo). He is the Principal Investigator of the PRIN 2022 research project CoenoBI(u)M. Art and Architecture of the Cassinese Benedictine Congregation (15th–18th century): Strategies for Digital and Spatial Analysis through BIM Models. He is a resident member and Scientific Board member of the Ateneo Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti. Since 2024, he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Ateneo Veneto (classified in band A for sector E 8). He has published monographs and articles in international journals on the history of medieval and Renaissance architecture, with particular focus on Venice. His current research focuses on religious architecture in the Renaissance and on the theme of the monastic landscape in Italian Humanism.

Having graduated with the a first-class degree in architecture, Francesco Marcorin obtained a PhD from the Venice University Institute of Architecture (iuav) with a thesis on Michele Sanmicheli (2014). He then collaborated with the State Archives in Verona, where he conducted an initial re-ordering of the archive of Bevilacqua di San Michele alla Porta. In addition to studies on Sanmicheli and his workshop, his current research interests include spolia in the Late Antique and Modern Ages, Renaissance architectural theory, and patronage and art collecting in 16th to 18th century Veneto.

After graduating from Venice University Institute of Architecture (iuav, 2008), she obtained a PhD in the Conservation of the Architectural Heritage from the Politecnico di Milano with a thesis on restorations of Palladian buildings in the 19th and 20th centuries (2013). Since 2008 she has been a teaching assistant at the iuav. As a research fellow at the same institute (2014), she conducted studies on Palladio’s construction techniques and drafted a project for a catalogue of them in cooperation with the Ministry of the Cultural Heritage and the cisaap, with which she has collaborated since 2010. She has taken part in Italian and international conferences and has written essays and articles on the state of conservation of Palladian works and their restorations; she drafted the first complete register of all Palladian restoration works carried out since 1945, published as Palladio, materiali, tecniche, restauri (2011).

Elena Svalduz is Associate Professor of History of Architecture in the Department of Cultural Heritage at the University of Padua. Her principal interests are the history of architecture, the history of the city in the modern age, and the historical landscape. A member of both the AISU Board of Directors and the Steering Committee of Visualizing Cities since 2017, with Gianmario Guidarelli she jointly curates the "Armonie composte" project and publishing series on the monastic landscape (www.armoniecomposte.org).