Holy Anorexia
Rudolph M. Bell, professor of history at Rutgers University, is the author of a number of books in Italian history, among them Fate and Honor, Family and Village: Demographic and Cultural Change in Rural Italy Since 1800, Holy Anorexia,How to Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians,andThe Voices of Gemma Galgani: The Life and Afterlife of a Modern Saint(with Cristina Mazzoni), all published by the University of Chicago Press.