Caterina Napoleone is an art historian who lives and works in Rome. She is also involved with set design and interior decoration and is passionate about “inventing” books. Her expertise includes antiques, marbles, semi-precious stones, the Grand Tour, collecting and the decorative arts. She has published numerous specialized texts on these subjects and has also authored innovative contributions about the evocative power of the dialogue that can be established between texts and images. Since the 1990s she has collaborated with Franco Maria Ricci, for whom she has written and edited many volumes, including the monumental Enciclopedia della Sicilia. She is the author of Franco Zeffirelli: Complete Works - Theatre, Opera, Film, published by Thames & Hudson and was artistic consultant to Zefferilli’s 2009 documentary, Homage to Rome.