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Adriana Valerio Editor & Author

Adriana Valerio is a historian and theologian. For over thirty years, since she became one of the first women in Italy to obtain a theology degree, she has devoted herself to the critical interpretation of the role of women within the history of Christianity. She is the author of many essays on the subject and an internationally recognised scholar.  Wendy Wheatley was born in Hartford, Connecticut. After spending her formative years in The Netherlands and Belgium, she moved to Milan in 1986 to work as a designer with the architect Ettore Sottsass. His request to translate his writings blossomed into a career compatible with raising a family.