Gabriele PedullàGabriele Pedullà is professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at the University of Rome 3 and has been visiting professor at Stanford, University of California, Los Angeles, and the École Normale Supérieure, Lyon, Francesco De Dombrowski Fellowat 'Villa I Tatti', the Harvard University Center for the Italian Renaissance, Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, Columbia University, and Belknap Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Council at Princeton University. In English he has published In Broad Daylight. Movies and Spectators after the Cinema (2012) and many essays on Renaissance political thought. With Sergio Luzzatto, he edited a three volume Atlante della letteratura italiana (2010-12). His new edition and commentary on Machiavelli's Prince (2013) is forthcoming in English and is under translation in French, Spanish, and Portuguese. He is also the author of two prizewinning fiction books: the collection of short stories Lo spagnolo senza sforzo (2009: partially translated into English), and the novel Lame (2017, forthcoming in English as Blades). Read More Read Less