Ronald G. Musto holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University, specializing in late medieval Rome and Naples. Musto is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and the winner of NEH and Mellon Foundation fellowships. He is co-publisher of Italica Press and general editor for its six-volume Documentary History of Naples. His works include Apocalypse in Rome: Cola di Rienzo and the Politics of the New Age (AHA’s Marraro Prize 2004); Medieval Naples: A Documentary History, 400—1400 (Italica Press, 2013); “Introduction: Naples in Myth and History,” in Hall and Willette, Artistic Centers of the Italian Renaissance: Naples (Cambridge University Press, 2017); and Writing Southern Italy before the Renaissance: Trecento Historians of the Mezzogiorno (Routledge, 2019).
Dr. Musto is former co-executive director of the Medieval Academy of America and editor of Speculum. He is Honorary Research Fellow at the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Bristol.