Vaughan Hart is Professor of Architecture at Bath University. He is the co-translator (with Peter Hicks) from Italian of the architectural treatises by Sebastiano Serlio, as well as the two guidebooks to Rome by Andrea Palladio and that to Venice by Francesco Sansovino. He is the author of monographs on Nicholas Hawksmoor, John Vanbrugh and Inigo Jones, all published by Yale University Press. His most recent book is Christopher Wren: in Search of Eastern Antiquity (2020), also published by Yale U.P.