Though Canadian born, I consider Italy to be my true intellectual home. My central field of research is the Italian Renaissance, and my particular focus is humanism and the Renaissance papacy. My work so far has centred on the fifteenth-century humanist Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomini (later Pope Pius II) and more specifically, on his autobiography and best-selling romantic novella. I am currently working on a book manuscript about Pius's autobiography and on a Latin-English edition of his (and other humanists') novelle
