Jane Gleeson-White is the author of Double Entry: How the
merchants of Venice shaped the modern world - and how their invention could make
or break the planet (2011), Australian Classics (2007) and Classics (2005) She is a PhD student in
creative writing at the University of New South Wales and has degrees in
economics and literature from the University of Sydney and was an intern at the
Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. She blogs at bookishgirl.com.au.