Carolyn James, Cassamarca Associate Professor in the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Monash University, is an historian of late-medieval and Renaissance Italy. She has edited the letters of the fifteenth century literary figure, Giovanni Sabadino degli Arienti, analysed his literary works (Olschki, 1996 and 2002) and translated, with Antonio Pagliaro, the late medieval letters of Margherita Datini (Centre of Reformation and Renaissance Studies Toronto, 2012). She is presently working on an Australian Research Council funded project on the Italian Wars (1494-1559) with Professor Susan Broomhall and Dr Lisa Mansfield. Her new monograph entitled A Renaissance Marriage: The Political and Personal Alliance of Isabella d’Este and Francesco Gonzaga 1490-1519, has recently been published by Oxford University Press.