Anthony M. Cummings is Eugene Howard Clapp II '36, LL.D. '84, and Maud Millicent Greenwell Clapp Professor in the Humanities at Lafayette College, where he is also professor of music and Coordinator of the Program in Italian Studies. He is the author of Nino Pirrotta: An Intellectual Biography and The Lion’s Ear: Pope Leo X, the Renaissance Papacy, and Music.