Vittorio Montemaggi is Lecturer in Religion and the Arts in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at King’s College London. His work focuses primarily on the relationship between language, truth and love, and on the works of Dante and Primo Levi. He also has a growing interest in the theological implications of Shakespeare’s plays. His Reading Dante’s Commedia as Theology: Divinity Realised in Human Encounter was published by Oxford University Press in 2016.