Simon Martin
Simon Martin is a research fellow at the British School at Rome and the University of Hertfordshire, and teaches at the American University of Rome. His previous book Football and Fascism: The National Game in Mussolini's Italy, won the Lord Aberdare prize for literary history, in 2004. His latest book, Sport Italia: The Italian Love Affair with Sport (IB Tauris, 2011), narrates the history of modern Italy through the national passion of sport.
