Lynn Lara Westwater is Professor of Italian at The George Washington University. Her books include Sarra Copia Sulam: A Salonnière and the Press in Counter-Reformation Venice (University of Toronto Press, 2020); with Meredith K. Ray, critical editions of Arcangela Tarabotti’s Letters Familiar and Formal (Iter Press, 2012) and Convent Paradise (Iter Press and ACMS, 2020); and with Diana Robin, a critical edition of Ippolita Sforza’s writing titled Duchess and Hostage in Renaissance Naples: Letters and Orations (Iter Press and ACMS, 2017).