Dr Susanna Barsella (Foreword) graduated from The Johns Hopkins University and is Professor of Italian for the Modern Languages and Literatures Department and the Center for Medieval Studies at Fordham University, NYC. Dr Barsella’s main area of research is in Italian Medieval literature with a specific interest in the literature of Early Humanism. She has published on Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio, Michelangelo and the idea of work from antiquity to the Middle Ages. Dr Barsella’s interests also embrace twentieth-century literature with publications on Pirandello, Gadda and twentieth-century poetry. Her books include In the Light of the Angels: Angelology and Cosmology in Dante’s Divina Commedia (Olschki, 2010); Niccolò Acciaiuoli, Boccaccio e la Certosa del Galluzzo: Politica, religione ed economia nell’Italia del Trecento (as co-editor, Viella, 2020); and The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective (co-edited with Simone Marchesi, University of Toronto Press, 2022). She has served as a member of the Council of the Dante Society of America and as Treasurer and Vice-President of the American Boccaccio Association. She is currently a co-organizer of the ABA-ENGB (American Boccaccio Association – Ente Nazionale Giovanni Boccaccio) Summer School in Latin Paleography.