Victoria Addona is a FRQSC postdoctoral fellow (2020-22) in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. A specialist of early modern art, architecture, and urbanism, she received her PhD in the History of Art and Architecture from Harvard University in 2020. Her current book project investigates the staging of supernatural environments in early modern Italian theatre alongside nascent ideas and practices regarding the technological conquest of local and global landscapes. This research has benefited from the support of SSHRC, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Italian Art Society, as well as fellowships at Villa I Tatti, the Medici Archive Project, and Sir John Soane’s Museum.