The History of Fonderia Artistica Ferdinando Marinelli, Florence by Prof. John T Spike, an American art historian specializing in the art of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque periods.
He is as well an important critic and curator of contemporary art and is a past director of the Florence Biennale. In 2007, Spike was appointed to the Faculty of History of Sacred Art where he teaches a course on the fundamentals of the history of Christian art in the masters program jointly organized by the European University of Rome and the Atenaeum Pontificio Regina Apostolorum.