Marcello Simonetta & Noga Arikha

Dr. Marcello Simonetta has taught Italian literature and history at Wesleyan University. His book The Montefeltro Conspiracy: A Renaissance Mystery Decoded solved one of the most scandalous crimes of the Renaissance: the "Pazzi Conspiracy." Marcello also curated an exhibition on the Duke of Montefeltro at the Morgan Library in New York City.

Born in Italy, Marcello studied at the University of Rome La Sapienza and gained his Ph.D in Italian Literature and History at Yale University.

Noga Arikha is a historian of ideas. She grew up in Paris and moved to London to study for a BA in German and Philosophy at Kings College. She interned as an editorial assistant at the New York Review of Books, before returning to London and receiving a doctorate in history at the Warburg Institute. Thereafter, Noga took up the "Arts and Neuroscience" Fellowship at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, at Columbia University. She has also taught at Bard College and Graduate Center in New York.

Marcello and Noga have recently finished a book about Lucien Bonaparte, entitled Napoleon and the Rebel. For more information on both Noga and Marcello please see their separate author profiles.