Notes on the Editors
Erminia Ardissino
(Ph.D., Yale University; Dottorato di Ricerca, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano) is associate professor at the University of Torino. Her research deals with Italian literature from Dante to the Baroque age, with special attention to the perspectives of history of ideas and religious experience. She has published extensively on Dante, Humanism, Renaissance, Galileo, Marino, Baroque Italian literature, and preaching in early modern Italy. She has also published a number of critical editions. Currently she is exploring Biblical reading and writing in Early Modern Italy, focusing on interpretative communities of women.
Élise Boillet
(Ph.D., Paris) is a researcher of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (CESR) of the University of Tours, France. She is the author of L’Arétin et la Bible (2007) and has provided the critical edition of Pietro Aretino’s biblical paraphrases in the Edizione Nazionale delle Opere di Pietro Aretino (2017). She has edited several collections of essays, among others Antonio Brucioli. Humanisme et évangélisme entre Réforme et Contre-Réforme (2008); Les figures de David à la Renaissance (together with P.A. Mellet and S. Cavicchioli, 2015); and Les femmes et la Bible de la fin du Moyen Âge à l’époque moderne. Pratiques de lecture et d’écriture (Italie, France, Angleterre) (together with M.T. Ricci, 2017). She authored several contributions on sixteenth-century Italian biblical literature, with a particular attention to printed vernacular books on the Psalms.