Alessandro Barbero teaches Medieval Studies at the Universit� del Piemonte Orientale. A previous winner of the Strega Prize, Italy's most prestigious literary award, he is the author of Charlemagne: Father of a Continent , The Battle: A New History of Waterloo (Atlantic Books, 2005) and The Day of the Barbarians: The First Battle in the Fall of the Roman Empire (Atlantic Books, 2007).
