Barbara Reynolds

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Barbara Reynolds, Italian scholar, lexicographer and translator, husband of the philologist and translator Lewis Thorpe.

A graduate of University College, London, Barbara Reynolds was Lecturer in Italian at Cambridge and then Reader in Italian Studies at Nottingham. Her first book was a study of Alessandro Manzoni.

She completed and annotated Paradiso, the last volume of Dorothy Sayers' three-volume translation of Dante's Divine Comedy, which was left unfinished at Dorothy Sayers' death. Barbara Reynolds afterwards translated Dante's La Vita Nuova and Ariosto's Orlando Furioso for the Penguin Classics.

Her greatest work is perhaps the Cambridge Italian dictionary, of which the first volume appeared in 1962 and the second in 1981.

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