The Editors: Leslie Boldt-Irons is Professor of French at Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada. She is the English translator of Georges Bataille's L'experience interieure and has also edited a collection of essays on Bataille's work. She has published articles on a variety of twentieth-century French authors and teaches courses on French literature, cinema, and culture and civilization. Corrado Federici is Professor of Italian at Brock University. He has translated several books from the original Italian, including Luciano Nanni's The Power of Communication: Essays on Adespotic Aesthetics and Italian Women Poets, has co-edited Literary Texts and the Arts: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, and has published articles and book chapters on modern Italian poets and novelists. Ernesto Virgulti is Chair of the Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Brock University, where he teaches Italian language, literature, and cinema. His publications include articles and essays on Boccaccio's Decameron, medieval European narrative, literary semiotics and narratology, and, more recently, a critical edition of Luigi Pirandello's Cosi e (se vi pare).