Valeria Finucci is professor of Italian and Theater Studies at Duke University. She is the author of The Lady Vanishes (1992) and The Manly Masquerade (2003) and has edited nine more volumes on topics as far ranging as costumes in alba amicorum to Petrarch and Petrarchism. Her work has appeared in The Other Voice: Chicago series, in 2005, with Giulia Bigolina's Urania, a Romance, and in 2006, with Moderata Fonte's Floridoro, A Chivalric Romance.