William Landon

Dr. William Landon is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of History and Geography at Northern Kentucky University. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in History, with an emphasis on the life and works of Niccolò Machiavelli, from the University of Edinburgh. While in Edinburgh, he studied under noted historian of Renaissance Italy Richard Mackenney.

Dr. Landon has published two books: Politics, Patriotism and Language: Niccolò Machiavelli’s “Secular Patria” and the Creation of an Italian National Identity, and Lorenzo di Filippo Strozzi and Niccolò Machiavelli: Patron, Client, and the Pistola fatta per la peste/An Epistle Written Concerning the Plague. The latter book was nominated for the Renaissance Society of America’s Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize in 2013.

Dr. Landon has delivered popular lectures and conference presentations on Renaissance Italy to audiences in the United States, Canada, Italy, England, Scotland, Germany and Taiwan.