Amedeo Feniello teaches Medieval History at the University of L’Aquila in Italy. He has taught and conducted research at the EHESS in Paris and at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. He currently works at the ISEM-CNR of Rome. His previous books, published in Italian, include Under the Sign of the Lion: History of Muslim Italy (2011), Sybille’s Tears: History of the Men Who Invented the Bank (2013), and The Enemies of the Italians (2020). Naples 1343 is his first book to appear in English.