Walter L. Adamson is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of History at Emory University where he teaches modern European intellectual and cultural history as well as modern Italian history. He is author of "Avant-Garde Florence: From Modernism to Fascism." winner of the Howard Marraro Prize of the American Historical Association, and "Hegemony and Revolution" (UC Press), winner of the Howard Marraro Prize of the Society for Italian Historical Studies.