Valery Rees holds a doctorate from the University of Cambridge for her work on Marsilio Ficino and his circle. She has lectured and published extensively on Ficino and on wider aspects of Renaissance thought, as well as teaching students sitting A level examinations in Latin. She is editor of the two most recent volumes of The Letters of Marsilio Ficino. She also published a monograph on angels: From Gabriel to Lucifer. A Cultural History of Angels (I.B. Tauris, 2013) and has co-edited collections of academic papers for De Gruyter Brill in 2002, 2011, 2018 and 2020.
Arthur Farndell is an established editor within the series and translator of several key Renaissance titles on the Shepheard-Walwyn list.
They have both worked for many years with a team in the Faculty of Renaissance Studies (formerly the Language Department) at the School of Philosophy and Economic Science. Over more than 50 years, this translation group has maintained a consistent, rigorous, and highly cooperative methodology to bring Ficino’s complete letters into English.
