Deborah Parker is Professor of Italian at the University of Virginia. She is the General Editor of The World of Dante (www.worldofdante.org) and editor of the blog, A Hymn to Intellectual Beauty: Creative Minds and Fashion (http://creativemindsandfashion.com/). She and Mark Parker have a blog on Sucking Up: Sycophancy in life and workplace on Psychology Today (https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/...)