Born in 1950 in Cesenatico, Italy, Stefano Simoncelli founded, during the seventies, the magazine Sul porto, which gained the attention (and collaboration) of poets such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Attilio Bertolucci, Giorgio Caproni, Vittorio Sereni, Franco Fortini, Giorgio Orelli, Roberto Roversi, Giovanni Raboni, and Giovanni Giudici.
Simone Dubrovic is associate professor of Italian at Kenyon College. His fields of specialization are Renaissance art and literature, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Italian literature, and Italian cinema.