Lara Gochin Raffaelli holds a PhD in Italian Literature, specialising in Gabriele D'Annunzio and Maria Messina. Her translation of D'Annunzio's Pleasure was published in 2013. Recent works include contributions to The Oxford Handbook of Decadence (2022) and a special edition of Forum Italicum (2017).

Michael J. Subialka is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Italian and Director of Graduate Study for Comparative Literature at the University California, Davis, USA.