Lombardi, Elena: - Elena Lombardi is Professor of Italian Literature at Oxford, and is a Fellow of Balliol College. She is the author of four books: The Syntax of Desire: Language and Love in Augustine, the Modistae, Dante (2007), The Wings of the Doves: Love and Desire in Dante and Medieval Culture (2012), and Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante (2018), Beatrice e le altre. Dante e l'universo femminile (2021), as well as several articles on topics related to the medieval and early modern periods. She is one of the co-editors of the Oxford Handbook of Dante (2021).