The Wings of the DovesIn The Wings of the Doves, Elena Lombardi undertakes a detailed reading of Dante's Inferno V the canto of Francesca da Rimini and her doomed love for her brother in law, Paolo Malatesta, a richly layered episode within the Divine Comedy, which continues to challenge readers today, blurring the distinction between poetry and doctrine, pity and condemnation, and literature and reality. Lombardi plays on the complex nature of the canto in order to shed