Annalisa Ristori, from Florence, taught Italian and Latin literature in high schools. She has been part of various scientific committees for many years and is the author of critical essays and linguistic-literary analyses. Her work, Firenze, covo di invidia received the Valerio Valoriani special prize in the 2019 edition of the Premio Firenze. L’ineffabile che si esprime was awarded the first prize in the non-fiction category in the fourth edition of the Giglio Blu (2022), an international literary competition. In 2023 Polistampa published her third Dante essay, La radice si inchina alla fronda.