Molly holds an MA in Italian literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison where she completed her PhD coursework and exams with a specialization in Renaissance and Early Modern periods. She spent a year in Venice as an undergraduate while at the University of California-Santa Cruz and afterwards worked in Siena for two years for the University of California Education Abroad Program. She later went to graduate school and, after finishing her studies in Madison, found herself back in Venice once again for another year, this time conducting archival research for her doctoral dissertation. She has remained in Italy ever since, has taught courses in Renaissance history in Florence, and is a licensed tour guide of Florence and its province.

Born and raised in Florence, Alessandra has a degree in art history from the University of Florence with a specialization in seventeenth-century painting. She obtained an Masters from the European University Institute in Florence, where she defended her Ph.D. in history, focusing on the patronage of Tuscan nobility in Europe during the seventeenth century. In addition, she holds a diploma in archival administration, paleography, and diplomatics from the State Archive in Florence. She has been teaching art history and Italian culture for several years in various schools and institutions in Florence and across Italy.

Sally holds an MA in art history from Syracuse University with a focus on Italian Renaissance art and is a current PhD student in Italian Studies at University of California Berkeley. She moved to Florence in 2014 to finish her master's research and continued to live and work there full-time until starting her PhD in 2021, sharing her passion for her adoptive city’s fascinating history with visitors and lecturing on Italian art and culture for university field studies programs. Now, she lives much of the year in Berkeley, CA, but often returns to Florence for research and for pleasure. Her interests include sixteenth-century Italian art and history and the intersections between Renaissance literature and visual culture and sixteenth and seventeenth-century art and architectural theory.