Lucetta Scaraffia teaches Contemporary History at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. She is a member of the National Commission on Bioethics and contributes regularly to newspapers and journals.

Gabriella Zarri teaches Modern History at the University of Florence. She is a member of the Clementine Academy of Arts in Bologna and the Association "Il Mulino". A scholar of history of ecclesiastical institutions and of women, her publications include: Enclosures. Women, seclusion and marriage in the early modern era (Bologna 20022); The Religion of Lucrezia Borgia. The unpublished letters of the confessor (Rome 2006); and, Books of Spirit. Religious vulgate publishing in the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries (Turin 2009).