Alessandra Petrina (laurea in Modern Languages, Università degli Studi di Padova; M.A. in Combined Historical Studies, The Warburg Institute; Ph.D., Università degli Studi di Firenze) is Associate Professor of English Literature at the Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy. She has written a monograph on The Kingis Quair (Padova: Unipress, 1997), Cultural Politics in Fifteenth-century England. The Case of Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2004), and Machiavelli in the British Isles. Two Early Modern Translations of the Prince (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009). Besides, she has published articles on late-medieval and Renaissance literature and intellectual history, as well as on modern children's literature. She has recently edited a number of volumes on early modern English culture (Queen and Country. The Relation between the Monarch and the People in the Development of the English Nation, and, together with Laura Tosi, Representations of Elizabeth I in Early Modern Culture).