Riccardo Fubini is Professor of Renaissance History at the University of Florence. He is the author of Umanesimo italiano e i suoi storici: Origini rinascimentali, critica moderna; Quattrocento fiorentino: Politica, diplomazia, cultura; and Italia quattrocentesca: Politica e dipolmazia nell???et? di Lorenzo il Magnifico. Martha King is the editor of New Italian Women: A Collection of Short Fiction, translator of Grazia Deledda??'s Reeds in the Wind and Elias Portulu, and cotranslator of Luigi Pirandello??'s Her Husband, published by Duke University Press.