Joseph Luzzi is professor of comparative literature at Bard College and an award-winning writer, teacher, and scholar of Italian culture. He is the author of four books and lives in New York's Hudson Valley.
"A fresh account of the Renaissance… [an] elegant exploration"
*Kathryn Hughes - The Guardian*
"Botticelli’s Secret’ brilliantly sets the operatic stage of
vibrant, violent Renaissance Florence and brings to life the
characters who helped resurrect Botticelli in the 19th and 20th
centuries..."
*Max Norman - The Wall Street Journal*
"In this wide-ranging history, Luzzi considers why the
drawings, which illustrated eighty-eight cantos of Dante’s Divine
Comedy, had fallen into oblivion, and charts both Dante’s and
Botticelli’s reputations across the ages."
*What We’re Reading This Week feature - New Yorker*
"The Italian Renaissance has rarely been so brilliantly examined or
put before us in such a delectable style. I would recommend this
book to anyone who loves art, who enjoys good storytelling, who is
interested in how the human spirit rediscovered itself in such a
magnificent and dramatic fashion."
*Jay Parini, author of Borges and Me*
"I love everything Joseph Luzzi writes, and this might be his best
book yet. As always, it’s full of his intimate and personal
insights into the masters and masterpieces of Renaissance Italy,
told with his unique blend of scholarship and superb
storytelling—all in the service of a wonderful portrait of Florence
from Dante to Botticelli and beyond."
*Ross King, author of Leonardo and the Last Supper*
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