Notes on the Contributors

Roberta Antognini is Associate Professor Emerita of Italian Studies at Vassar College. She is the translator of Teodolinda Barolini’s La ‘Commedia’ senza Dio. Dante e la creazione di una realtà virtuale (2003). She is also the author of Il progetto autobiografico delle Familiares di Petrarca (2008), and co-editor of the collection of essays Poscritto a Giorgio Bassani (2012). With Deborah Woodard, she has translated into English several poetic collections by Amelia Rosselli: Hospital Series (2015), Obtuse Diary (2018), The Dragonfly (2022), Notes Scattered and Lost (2024), and Document (2025). With Peter Robinson, she has translated and edited Giorgio Bassani’s The Collected Poems (2023).

Roberto Antonelli is the current President of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Emeritus Professor of Romance Philology at Rome ‘La Sapienza’, he has been Membre étranger de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres since 2016. He was President of the Société de Linguistique Romane (2016–2019), President of the Ateneo federato delle Scienze umane, delle Arti e dell’Ambiente at Rome ‘La Sapienza’ (2008–2010) and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities (2004–2008) at Rome ‘La Sapienza’. He has published widely in all fields of Romance Studies, from the Middle Ages to the present day.

Zygmunt Barański is Serena Professor of Italian Emeritus at the University of Cambridge and R.L. Canala Professor of Romance Languages & Literatures Emeritus at the University of Notre Dame. He has published extensively on Dante, medieval and modern Italian literature, and modern Italian culture and film. Among his books are Dante e i segni. Saggi per una storia intellettuale di Dante (2000), ‘Chiosar con altro testo’. Leggere Dante nel Trecento (2001), Dante in Context (with Lino Pertile, 2015), The Cambridge Companion to Dante’s ‘Commedia’ (with Simon Gilson, 2019), and Dante, Petrarch, Boccaccio. Literature, Doctrine, Reality (2020).

Teodolinda Barolini is Lorenzo Da Ponte Professor of Italian, Columbia University. Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Accademia Olimpica, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society, and the Medieval Academy of America. Fifteenth President of the Dante Society of America. Author of Dante’s Poets (1984; It. 1993), The Undivine Comedy (1992; It, 2003), Dante and the Origins of Italian Literary Culture (2006; It, 2012), Dante’s Multitudes (2022; It, 2024). Editor of Rime giovanili e della ‘Vita Nuova’ (2009; Eng. 2014). Editor-in-Chief, Digital Dante: first on-line commentary on the Commedia.

Lina Bolzoni is Professor Emerita of Italian Literature at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, Global Distinguished Professor at New York University and a fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the British Academy. Her books include: La stanza della memoria. Modelli letterari e figurativi nell’età della stampa (1995), La rete delle immagini. Predicazione in volgare dalle origini a Bernardino da Siena (2002), Il cuore di cristallo. Ragionamenti d’amore, poesia e ritratto nel Rinascimento (2010), Il lettore creativo. Percorsi cinquecenteschi fra memoria, gioco, scrittura (2012), and Una meravigliosa solitudine. L’arte di leggere nell’Europa moderna (2019).

Alberto Casadei teaches at the University of Pisa. He researches Italian literature from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, comparative contemporary literature, and literary theory. Among his most recent studies: Biology of Literature (2018), Dante: Other Ascertainments and Critical Points (2019), Dante beyond Allegory (2021), A Poem that Becomes Sacred. The Projectuality and Poetics of Dante (2024).

Nassime Chida is an Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at Wellesley College and an Associate Editor of Digital Dante. She has previously taught at Columbia University and Duke University. She specializes in Dante, with a particular focus on the representation of Dante’s political and military context in the Commedia. Her publications have appeared in Romanic Review and Studi Romanzi.

George Dameron is Professor Emeritus of History at Saint Michael’s College. He is the author of Episcopal Power and Florentine Society, 1000–1320 (1991), Florence and Its Church in the Age of Dante (2005), and co-editor, with Beth Petitjean, of Charity, Medicine, and Religion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Italy: Essays in Memory of Philip R. Gavitt (2024). He is also the author of a variety of studies on the history of medieval Italy, particularly Tuscany, as well as an essay on the papacy in Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Grace Delmolino is Assistant Professor of Italian at the University of California, Davis and Associate Editor of Digital Dante. She holds a PhD from Columbia University in Italian and Comparative Literature and Society. Her areas of research are Dante, Boccaccio, canon law, gender studies, and the history of consent. Recent essays have appeared in Speculum, The Decameron Ninth Day in Perspective, and Reconsidering Consent and Coercion. Her first book, on Boccaccio and canon law, reads the Decameron as a pioneering text of medieval consent theory.

Laura DiNardo recently received her PhD in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. Her research focuses on medieval and analytic philosophy of language in relation to the works of Dante, with her dissertation utilizing analytic philosophical methods to more fully excavate the poet’s enactment of a language theory in the Commedia. She is the Assistant Managing Editor of Digital Dante.

Joan M. Ferrante is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Among her publications are Woman as Image in Medieval Literature: From the Twelfth Century to Dante (1975), The Political Vision of the Divine Comedy (1984), and To the Glory of Her Sex: Women’s Roles in the Composition of Medieval Texts (1997). She originated the online database of medieval women’s correspondence, Epistolae.

Manuele Gragnolati is Professor of Medieval Italian Literature at Sorbonne Université, Associate Director of the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry, and Senior Research Fellow at Somerville College, Oxford. He is the author of Experiencing the Afterlife: Soul and Body in Dante and Medieval Culture (2005), Amor che move. Linguaggio del corpo e forma del desiderio in Dante, Pasolini e Morante (2013), and Possibilities of Lyric: Reading Petrarch in Dialogue (with Francesca Southerden, 2020). He has also edited several books, including The Oxford Handbook of Dante (with Elena Lombardi and Francesca Southerden, 2021).

Akash Kumar is an Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on medieval Italian literature through the lens of Mediterranean and global culture, from the history of science to the origins of popular phenomena such as the game of chess. His book, Love’s Knowledge: Science and Lyric from Giacomo da Lentini to Dante, is forthcoming from University of Toronto Press. He is an Associate Editor of Digital Dante and Editor of Dante Notes, the digital publication of the Dante Society of America.

Giuseppe Ledda is Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Bologna. His main area of research is Dante and medieval literature. He also works on Renaissance and twentieth-century Italian literature. He has published many articles and several books on Dante including: La guerra della lingua: Ineffabilità, retorica e narrativa nella ‘Commedia’ di Dante (2002); La Bibbia di Dante (2015); and Il bestiario dell’aldilà. Gli animali nella ‘Commedia’ di Dante (2019). He is a senior editor of the peer-reviewed journal L’Alighieri.

Elena Lombardi is Professor of Italian Literature at Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College. She is the author of five 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), Imagining the Woman Reader in the Age of Dante (2018), Beatrice e le altre. Dante e l’universo femminile (2021), and Ulysses, Dante, and Other Stories (2023), 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).

Kristina M. Olson is Associate Professor of Italian in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at George Mason University. She is the author of Courtesy Lost: Dante, Boccaccio and the Literature of History (2014), and several articles on Dante and Boccaccio. She co-edited four volumes, including Approaches to Teaching Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy’ with Christopher Kleinhenz. She has served as Vice President of the Dante Society of America, and as President, Vice President and Treasurer of the American Boccaccio Association. She is the current Editor-in-Chief of Dante Studies.

F. Regina Psaki is Professor Emerita of Romance Languages at the University of Oregon. She has published scholarly studies of narrative and authorial voicing in Dante, Boccaccio, and medieval imaginative fictions. She has translated chivalric romances from French and Italian: Il Tristano Riccardiano (2006), Le Roman de la Rose ou de Guillaume de Dole (1995), and Le Roman de Silence (1991). She is currently focusing on misogynous diatribes and defenses of women in Italian and French, and the critical history and future of the Roman de Silence.

H. Wayne Storey is the Founding Editor of Textual Cultures, former editor of Medioevo letterario d’Italia and former president of the Society for Textual Scholarship. One of the leading proponents of material philology in the U.S. and Italy, Storey is a specialist of medieval manuscripts. His collaborations with Barolini have included Dante for the New Millennium and Petrarch and the Origins of Interpretation. He is currently completing an extensive material commentary for his new ‘rich-text’ digital edition of Petrarch’s Fragmenta (http://petrarchive.org) and ‘Petrarch’s Italian Book’.

Julie Van Peteghem is Associate Professor of Italian at Hunter College, CUNY, and Doctoral Faculty in Comparative Literature at The Graduate Center, CUNY. She is Managing Editor of Digital Dante and the Editor of the Intertextual Dante project on the site. She earned her PhD in Italian and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. She is the author of Italian Readers of Ovid from the Origins to Petrarch (Brill, 2020), and her work has appeared in journals such as Humanist Studies & the Digital Age, Italian Studies, and Studi Danteschi.