Anthony DiMatteo, professor of English at the New York Institute of Technology, is the author of many articles on early modern poetry as well as the first translation into English of Natale Conti�s Mythologiae, a work on Greek and Roman myth that influenced Spenser, Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Paolo Veronese and Milton.  He has received numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the New York Council for the Humanities.  His poetry has been recently published by Exquisite Corpse and Penumbra.