Eleonora Guidi

Eleonora Guidi is a PhD student at the University of Bologna in the DESE (European Literatures) program. She studies 20th century English, French and Italian literature with a comparative method.

She has studied in 2023 in the UK at University College London and in 2024/2025 at the Centre de Recherche en Littérature Comparée at Sorbonne Université in Paris.

Her doctoral project is dedicated to the history of the Parisian bookshops Shakespeare and Company and La Maison des Amis des Livres owned by Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, in the Parisian literary Odéonie from 1915 to 1945. 

Her research also focuses on the reception of Dante in England and Europe, with studies on illustrations and the book market, including periodicals and the history of literary salons from the end of the 18th century until the 20th century.