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Susanna Barsella is Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fordham University. She received her PhD in Italian Literature at Johns Hopkins University after receiving a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pisa, an M. Phil. in Economics from the University of York (England), and a M.A. in Italian literature from Catholic University of America. She has published on medieval, Renaissance, and modern Italian authors. Her latest publications are “Il Lavoro nel mondo romano. L’Homo faber ipse suae fortunae,” Problemi della Pedagogia, July 2005, “The Ancient Sources of the Humanistic Idea of Work: at the Confluence of Judeo-Christian and Greek Traditions,” Memorie Domenicane, NS 35, 2004; “Boccaccio and Humanism. A new Patristic Source of Proemio 14 and the Pestilence: Basil the Great’s Homily on Psalm 1.” Studi sul Boccaccio XXXII-2004. Before Fordham, she taught at Catholic University at Washington DC, Georgetown, George Washington University, University of Maryland, and the Johns Hopkins University.

Angela Bianchini was Director of the Sarah Lawrence Italian Program in Rome, has published an anthology of Medieval texts, a history of the Spanish Novel, a history of French feuilleton, a history of feminism, a history of fifteenth century Florentine women and seven novels, out of which two were translated in English and in Spanish. She has written many cultural programs and scripts for the Italian Radio and TV. For the past thirtyfive years she has been a regular contributor to the Italian newspaper La Stampa and its Literary supplement Tuttolibri.

Willard Bohn teaches at Illinois State University, where he is Distinguished Professor of Foreign Languages. An active scholar with an international reputation, he focuses on modern poetry and its intersection with modern art. Bohn has authored one hundred articles and twelve books, including Italian Futurist Poetry (2005), Marvelous Encounters: Surrealist Responses to Art, Film, Poetry, and Architecture (2005), The Other Futurism: Futurist Activity in Venice, Padua, and Verona (2004), Modern Visual Poetry (2001), The Rise of Surrealism (2001), and The Aesthetics of Visual Poetry (1986, 1993).

Robert Bufalini received his Ph.D. in Italian Literature from Brown University. His research has to do with the European Republic of Letters in the Age of the Enlightenment, and particularly with literary exchanges across the English, [End Page 254] French, Italian, and German linguistic domains. He has published articles on several of the more cosmopolitan spirits of the Italian eighteenth century, including Boscovich, Fortis, Scrofani.

Marco Codebò is visiting adjunct professor of Italian at the University of Houston. His research interests include orality and writing in fictional as well as historical works, the historical novel in France, Italy, and Latin America, and realist novels as archives. He has published “Oralità e scrittura nei Narratori delle pianure di Gianni Celati,” Da Calvino agli ipertesti: prospettive della posmodernità nella letteratura italiana, 2002; “The Vision of the Outsider in Euclides da Cunha’s Os Sertões, Mario Vargas Llosa’s La guerra del fin del mundo, and José J. Veiga’s A casca da serpente,” The Image of the Outsider in Literature, Media, and Society, 2002; “True Biography vs. False Autobiography in Boccaccio’s Short Story of Ser Ciappelletto.” West Virginia University Philological Papers 46; “Straniamento ed epifania in ‘Pigionali’ di Federigo Tozzi,” MLN 114; “La rappresentazione del tempo in Giovani di Federigo Tozzi,” Rivista di studi Italiani, 16; and “Guy de Maupassant in Federigo Tozzi,” MLN 113. He also authored of a novel, Via dei serragli, Manni, 2003.

Stefano Cracolici, Ph.D., M.D. Assistant Professor of Romance Languages at the University of Pennsylvania interested in the history of emotions, with a particular focus on Italian Humanism and its ethical, aesthetic, and medical implications. Author of a study on the Mantuan courtier Filippo Nuvoloni (1441–1478; Firenze: Olshki, 2006, in print), he is currently revising his book on Leon Battista Alberti (Contenzioni amatorie: La “Deifira” di Leon Battista e l’amore in forma di dialogo, forthcoming in Florence by Pagliai), and working on his first book in English, tentatively entitled Anger in the Ideal City, on intellectual acrimony and the sources of Early Modern militant criticism.

Sal Di Maria is a professor of Italian at the University of Tennessee–Knoxville. His research interests...