Dr Barbara Reynolds

Career: asst lectr in Italian LSE 1937-40, lectr in Italian Univ of Cambridge 1940-62, reader in Italian Univ of Nottingham 1966-78 (warden of Willoughby Hall 1963-69); visiting prof in Italian: Univ of Calif Berkeley 1974-75, Wheaton Coll Illinois 1977-78, Trinity Coll Dublin 1980 and 1981, Hope Coll Michigan 1982; hon reader Univ of Warwick 1975-80; managing ed Seven (an Anglo-American literary review) 1980-88 and 1993-2004; chm: Univ Women's Club 1988-90, Dorothy L Sayers Soc 1983-94 (pres 1994-); Hon DLitt: Wheaton Coll Illinois 1979, Hope Coll Michigan 1982, Univ of Durham 1995; Silver medal for servs to Italian culture 1964, Silver medal for servs to Anglo-Veneto cultural rels 1971, Cavaliere Ufficiale al Merito della Repubblica Italiana 1978

Books and Publications: The Linguistic Writings of Alessandro Manzoni (1952), The Cambridge Italian Dictionary (gen ed Vol I 1962, Vol II 1981), Dante: Paradise (trans with Dorothy L Sayers, 1962), Guido Farina, Painter of Verona (with Lewis Thorpe, 1967), Dante: Poems of Youth (trans, 1969), Concise Cambridge Italian Dictionary (1975), Ariosto: Orlando Furioso (trans Vol I 1975, Vol II 1977), Dizionario Italiano-Inglese, Inglese-Italiano (Signorelli-CUP, 1985), The Translator's Art (ed with William Radice, 1987), The Passionate Intellect: Dorothy L Sayers' Encounter with Dante (1989), Dorothy L Sayers: Her Life and Soul (1993), The Letters of Dorothy L Sayers: 1899-1936, The Making of a Detective Novelist (ed, 1995), The Letters of Dorothy L Sayers: 1937-1943 - From Novelist to Playwright (ed, 1997), The Letters of Dorothy L Sayers: 1944-1950 - A Noble Daring (ed, 1999), The Letters of Dorothy L Sayers: 1951-1957 - In the Midst of Life (ed, 2000), Dorothy L Sayers: Child and Woman of Her Time (ed, 2002), Dante: the Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man (2006)