About Deborah Parker
Deborah Parker is a professor of Italian at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Commentary and Ideology: Dante in the Renaissance (1993), Bronzino: Renaissance Painter as Poet (2000), and Michelangelo and the Art of Letter Writing (2011), co-author of Inferno Revealed: From Dante to Dan Brown (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and general editor of the multimedia archive, The World of Dante.