Andrew Frisardi is a Bostonian who lives in central Italy. He is the author, translator, and/or editor of several books, including The Moon on Elba (poems, 2023), Ancient Salt: Essays on Poets, Poetry, and the Modern World (2022), The Harvest and the Lamp (poems, 2020), and Love's Scribe: Reading Dante in the Book of Creation (2020). Among his works as a translator and independent scholar, he has published annotated editions of Dante's Convivio (Cambridge University Press, 2018; paperback ed., 2022) and Vita nova (Northwestern University Press, 2012). His work has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hawthornden Literary Fellowship, and the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. Frisardi is a fellow of and a frequent contributor to the Temenos Academy in London, which offers adult education in philosophy and the arts in the light of the sacred traditions of East and West.