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Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film
A Cinema of Poetry brings Italian film studies into dialogue with fields outside its usual purview by showing how films can contribute to our understa...
A Memoir
When you lose your whole world in a moment, where do you turn? On a cold November morning, Joseph Luzzi, a Dante scholar and professor at Bard College...
A charming, informative personal history that blends the anecdotal, historical, and downright unusual The child of Italian immigrants and an award-win...
A History of Italian Cinema
Bard College director of Italian studies professor Joseph Luzzi leads a comprehensive overview of Italian film....
Professor Luzzi addresses the place of classic literature in the modern world with this, advocating "the art of reading" as a way to answer essential ...
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 “Brilliantly conceived and executed, Botticelli's Secret is a riveting search for buried treasure.” —Stephen Gree...
This groundbreaking study considers Italian Romanticism and the modern myth of Italy. Ranging across European and international borders, he examines t...
A Biography
The life and times of Dante’s soaring poetic allegory of the soul’s redemptive journey toward God Written during his exile from Florence in the ea...
The Lost Drawings and the Discovery of the Renaissance
“Brilliantly conceived and executed, Botticelli's Secret is a riveting search for buried treasure.” —Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve So...
The Mystery of Modern Italy
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What Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and FDR Read for Guidance
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A Memoir of Grief, Healing and the Mysteries of Love
A story of love and grief. 'I became a widower and a father on the same day' says Joseph Luzzi. His book tells how Dante's 'The Divine Comedy' helped ...