Rudolph M. Bell, professor of history at Rutgers University, is the author of a number of books in Italian history, among them�Fate and Honor, Family and Village: Demographic and Cultural Change in Rural Italy Since 1800,�Holy Anorexia, How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians, and The Voices of Gemma Galgani: The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Saint (with Cristina Mazzoni),�all published by the University of Chicago Press.