Donatella Montini, Full Professor of English Language and Translation at Sapienza University of Rome, specialises in stylistics, the history of English and political linguistics. Editor-in-Chief of Memoria di Shakespeare, she has written on Elizabeth I’s rhetoric, early modern language pedagogy, and John Florio. Her recent books address contemporary stylistics, Elizabethan language, and dialects in fiction; she is completing a monograph on John Florio for Routledge.