Laura Pasquini is an art historian at the University of Bologna. Particularly interested in the iconological results of the artistic production of the late ancient and medieval period, she has dealt with various issues of Christian archeology, with special attention to Dante’s iconography, images of the devil and the afterlife in the Middle Ages and figurative representations of her city. She is the author of Iconografie dantesche (2008); Otranto, the mosaic, the journey of Seth(2009); (with Anna Laura Trombetti) Bologna delle Torri. Uomini, pietre e artisti dal medioevo a Giorgio Morandi (2013), Diavoli e inferni nel medioevo (2015) and «Pigliare occhi, per aver la mente». Dante, la Commedia e le arti figurative (2020).