Julia L. Hairston is Academic Director of the University of California, Rome Study Center where she teaches courses in Italian literature. In addition to articles on Machiavelli, Ariosto, and Alberti, she co-edited The Body in Early Modern Italy (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010). She is currently preparing the introduction and notes for a translation by John C. McLucas of Tullia d’Aragona’s The Wretch (Il Meschino) that will appear in the OV series.