Giovanni Iamartino is a Full Professor of English at the University of Milan. His research interests are mainly focused on the history of lexicography, translation and history, and Anglo-Italian linguistic and cultural relations. Iamartino’s recent work on the history of language learning and teaching includes essays on R. John Andree’s 1725 Vocabulary in six languages, and on Giuseppe Baretti and Moses Santagnello as master of languages and compilers of learning and teaching materials in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. Forthcoming is his Oxford Bibliography on Anglo-Italian cultural relations: The Italian influence.