Joscelyn Godwin is Professor of Music at Colgate University in the United States, and author of numerous books of scholarship: Mystery Religions in the Ancient World "(1981), The Theosophical Enlightenment (1994), Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: spiritual dimension of music from antiquity to the forefront (Polity Press, 1998), The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance (2002) and the Golden Thread (2007). He has also made ​​important translations, among which include the Renaissance allegorical work Polifilo dream. In Atalanta has made the issue of Harmony of the spheres and the prologue of Atalanta's Run, Michael Maier.