Robert "Alex" Lee is a rising fifth year senior at Florida State University currently pursuing a dual degree in Bassoon Performance and Italian, with a minor in Classics. His research interests mainly focus on Medieval Italian music and musical language within Medieval Italian literature, more specifically, study of the life, works, and literary style of Dante Alighieri, and the formation and formalization of the Italian language from the Latin vulgar. Robert loves to learn languages, and has so far studied English, Italian, French, and Latin. His papers, "The Music and Anti-Music of Dante's Inferno" and "Paradiso: The Beginning of Literal Music in Dante's Commedia" both explore the literary and practical roles which music plays within Dante's Commedia, and he hopes to one day turn this research into a published book. Robert is an alumnus of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, where he completed his secondary education with a concentration in bassoon performance with Dean Saxton Rose, before coming to Florida State University to study with Professor Jeffery Keesecker. Robert is an active member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia National Music Fraternity, Gamma Kappa Alpha National Italian Honor Society, and the International Double Reed Society.