Barbara Reynolds, Italian scholar, lexicographer and translator, husband of the philologist and translator Lewis Thorpe. Lewis Thorpe, Professor of French at the University of Nottingham, translator, and husband of the Italian scholar and lexicographer Barbara Reynolds. ...

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. The Front Quad University College London, commonly known as UCL, is one of the colleges that make up the University of London. ... The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University, or just Cambridge), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The University of Nottingham is a leading research and teaching university in the city of Nottingham, in the East Midlands of England. ... Alessandro Manzoni Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (March 7, 1785–May 22, 1873) was an Italian poet and novelist. ...

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. Paradiso may refer to: a part of The Divine Comedy a legendary rock club in Amsterdam a french movie by Christian Bricout This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Dorothy Leigh Sayers (Oxford, 13 June 1893 – Witham, 17 December 1957) was a British author, translator, student of classical and modern languages, and Christian humanist. ... Dante redirects here. ... Dante shown holding a copy of The Divine Comedy, next to the entrance to Hell, the seven terraces of Mount Purgatory and the city of Florence, in Michelinos fresco. ... La Vita Nuova is a book of verse written by Dante Alighieri, roughly around the year of 1293. ... Ruggiero Rescuing Angelica by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres Orlando Furioso is an epic poem written by Ludovico Ariosto in 1516. ... Penguin Books is a British publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. ...

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