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The Authors
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Gabriella Airaldi
Airaldi was born in Genoa in 1942. She has been an adjunct professor since 1970, the same year she started
teaching at the University of Genoa. She was a full professor from 1976 to 2010. She is a member of the Scien-
tific Committee of the New Colombian Collection and of the National Committee for Celebrations in Honor
of Christopher Columbus, Vice President of the Italian Historian Society, and President of the International
“Finale Ligure Storia” award. She is currently a librarian for the Academy of Science and Letters for the Liguria
region. A member of Scientific Academies and Societies, she is the author of more than 400 publications. Her
most recent books include:
Dall’Eurasia al Nuovo Mondo. Una storia italiana
(Genoa, 2007);
Storia della Liguria,
I-V (Milan, 2008-2012);
Colombo da Genova al Nuovo Mondo
(Rome, 2012);
Breve Storia di Genova
(Pisa, 2012);
Nuevas Rutas hacia Oriente
– General Text, History, National Geographic, 20 (Barcelona 2013, Italian version
2014); (with F. Manzitti),
Il duca della finanza. I duchi di Galliera tra mecenatismo e solidarietá
(Milan, 2013);
Cristo-
foro Colombo. Un uomo tra due mondi
(Naples, 2014);
Andrea Doria
(Rome, 2015);
La congiura dei Fieschi. Capodan-
no di sangue
(Rome, 2017);
Inca Garcilaso. Con la espada y con la pluma. Una biografia
(Barcelona, 2018);
L’Italia
chiamó. Goffredo Mameli poeta e guerriero
(Rome 2019
);
and
Il ponte di Istanbul. Un progetto incompiuto di Leonardo
da Vinci
(Bologna, 2019). In 2004 she was awarded the Anthia Award, and in 2008 the Polis Award.
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Roberto Álvarez
Roberto Álvarez has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Dominican Republic since August 16, 2020.
From 1970 to 1978 he was an attorney at the General Secretariat of the Organization of American States
(OAS), first as Deputy Director of Protocol, then in the department of legal affairs and later in the secretariat of
the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR). As the Commission’s lead specialist, he prepared
draft reports on human rights in Chile (1976), Paraguay (1977), El Salvador (1978), and Nicaragua (1978), and
organized the IACHR’s onsite visits to Panama (1977), El Salvador (1978), and Nicaragua (1978). He served
as an official delegate of Amnesty International on missions to Nicaragua (1980-81) and Sri Lanka (1981),
and has been a guest professor and speaker on topics related to human rights, public international law, and
U.S. foreign policy at various universities and academic centers. From June 2005 to September 2008, Álvarez
served as the Permanent Representative of the Dominican Republic to the Organization of American States
with the rank of Ambassador. At the OAS, he held the Presidency of the Permanent Council on behalf of the
Dominican Republic from July to September 2005. In addition, he was elected Chair of the Subcommittee on
Partnership for Development Policies of the Permanent Executive Committee of the Inter-American Council
for Integral Development (CEPCIDI), 2006-2007, and of the Committee on Juridical and Political Affairs of