Frisardi, Andrew: - ANDREW FRISARDI is author, translator, and/or editor of several books, most recently The Harvest and the Lamp, a collection of poetry chosen by James Matthew Wilson for the Colosseum Book series of Franciscan University Press (2020). His annotated editions of Dante's Convivio (Cambridge University Press, 2018) and Vita nova (Northwestern University Press, 2012) are internationally prominent and widely used in Dante studies and by general readers of Dante in English. His work has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hawthornden Literary Fellowship, and the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. Originally from Boston, he has made his home in central Italy for a number of years. Frisardi is a fellow of and a frequent contributor to the Temenos Academy in London, which offers adult education in philosophy and the arts in the light of the sacred traditions of East and West.