Mila De Santis is Associate Professor of Musicology and History of Music at the University of Florence. She researched on the History of Italian music of nineteenth and twentieth Centuries, musical lexicology, relationship between poetry and music, poetry editions of Renaissance music, music criticism, musical dramaturgy. At the present time she is Principal Investigator in PRIN 2017 “Mapping Musical Life: Urban Culture and the Local Press in Post Unification Italy” (MML). Among her most recent publications: La scatola sonora di Alberto Savinio. La critica come invenzione, in Alberto Savinio, Scatola sonora (Milano, il Saggiatore, 2018); Le idee e le parole: orientamenti del testo verbale nel teatro musicale di avanguardia in Italia in Teatro di avanguardia e composizione sperimentale; Sylvano Bussotti, Luigi Dallapiccola, “Ulisse”, in The Theatres of Sylvano Bussotti, ed. by Daniela Tortora, Turnhout, Brepols, 2021, and the critical edition of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, La penna perduta. Scritti 1919-1936 (Roma-Ariccia, Aracne, 2018).