Barbara Reynolds

An Italian scholar and translator Barbara Reynolds completed the translation of Dante's Divine Comedy which Dorothy L. Sayers left unfinished when she died. Dr Reynolds has told the story of this collaboration in The Passionate Intellect: Dorothy L. Sayers' Encounter with Dante. She has also translated Dante's La Vita Nuova and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and was the general editor of The Cambridge Italian Dictionary. More recently Dr Reynolds founded the journal Seven to which she has contributed articles on Dorothy L. Sayers. She is the President of the Dorothy L. Sayers Society and has frequently lectured at the society's conferences. She is currently working on an edition of the Sayers letters of which the first three volumes have now appeared.