Pierpaolo Polzonetti is an associate professor of music and liberal studies at the University of Notre Dame. His book, Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution (Cambridge University Press, 2011) received the Lewis Lockwood Award and his article on Mozart’s Così fan tutte, published in the Cambridge Opera Journal, received the Einstein Award, both conferred by the American Musicological Society. Polzonetti’s first book, Giuseppe Tartini e la musica secondo natura (LIM, 2001) is the winner of the ‘Premio Internazionale Latina di Studi Musicali.’ He is currently writing a book on opera and food. He specializes on opera and eighteenth-century music and culture and his research has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the American Council for Learned Societies (ACLS), and the Earhart Foundation. He is the coeditor—with Anthony R. DelDonna—of the Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Opera. Polzonetti received both a master’s degree and a doctoral degree from Cornell University, as well as a Dóttore in Lettere from Sapienza, University of Rome.

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