Julia Conaway BondanellaJulia Conaway Bondanella is Professor Emeritus of French and Italian at Indiana University where she was Associate Dean of the Honors College and taught courses on Italian and Renaissance literature, Western literature and thought, ad the history of ideas. She served as Assistant Director of the National Endowment for the Humanities and President of the National Collegiate Honors Council. She is author of Petrarch's Dream Visions and Their Renaissance Analogues; co-editor of The Macmillan Dictionary of Italian Literature; co-editor and co-translator of The Italian Renaissance Reader; and translator and co-editor of Rousseau's Political Writings. With Peter Bondanella, she is co-editor and co-translator of Cellini's My Life and Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy and co-editor of Dante's Purgatorio and Paradiso. Read More Read Less