Short Biography: Martina Saltamacchia is Distinguished Associate Professor of Medieval History, Director of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, and Graduate Program Chair at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. She received her Laurea in Economics (2004) and her Ph.D. in Economic and Social History (2011) from Bocconi University (Milan, Italy), and her Ph.D. in Medieval History from Rutgers University, USA (2013). Her current research projects center on a volume on the five autobiographies of the Italian mystic saint Veronica Giuliani (forthcoming with University of Toronto Press), and on Marco Carelli, a wealthy merchant who donated nearly all of his patrimony to the Cathedral of Milan to jump-start its construction. On the Cathedral of Milan and the people who donated money and goods for the work, she has published Milano: Un Popolo e il suo Duomo (2007) and Costruire Cattedrali (2011). She is currently editing the volume Financing Cathedrals in Late Medieval Europe, which looks at the topic from a comparative perspective.