Elena Lombardi is Professor of Italian Literature at Oxford, and the Paget Toynbee Fellow at Balliol College. She is the author of The Syntax of Desire: Language and Love in Augustine, the Modistae and 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).
