Alessandro Gallenzi is the founder of Alma Books and the successor of John Calder at the helm of Calder Publications. As well as being a literary publisher with twenty years of experience, he is a prize-winning translator, a poet, a playwright and a novelist. He edited John Keats's Complete Poems for Alma in 2019 and he has recently published a translation of Keats's Letters (La valle dell'anima) with Adelphi.