Valentina Ferrari Author

Valentina Ferrari is a historical linguist and in particular a historian of the origins of Italian vernaculars. She is currently Research Fellow on a project focusing on the linguistic history of vernacular mathematics in Renaissance Italy: Vernacular Mathematics in the Italian Dialects: A History, funded by the Leverhulme Trust. She is based in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics at the University of Oxford. She has published on a variety of topics on lexical, syntactic, and textual aspects of medieval Latin and Romance documents from Italy. She holds a PhD in linguistics from the Scuola Normale Superiore.

Martin Maiden is a Romance linguist with particular interests in Italian and Romanian. Since 1996 he has been Professor of the Romance Languages at Oxford University. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, a Member of Academia Europaea, and a corresponding member of Italy’s Accademia della Crusca. He has been president of the Società internazionale di linguistica e filologia italiana and the Società di linguistica italiana. He is currently president of the Société de linguistique romane. He is the author of A Linguistic History of Italian (1995) and co-editor of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of the Italian Language.