Joseph Luzzi

Joseph Luzzi teaches at Bard and is the author of My Two Italies, a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, and In a Dark Wood: What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love.

A Masterpiece Born of the Black Death

Boccaccio’s Decameron reminds us to live with gratitude

By Joseph Luzzi | Thursday June 4, 2020
Women in profile reading on the beach

The Great Summer Read

Why do we persist in this often futile literary quest?

By Joseph Luzzi | Monday June 17, 2019

How to Read Dante in the 21st Century

Breaking the code of “The Divine Comedy” with patient reverence

By Joseph Luzzi | Tuesday March 22, 2016

Reassessing Rossellini

Restoration of Rome Open city, the director’s masterpiece, prompts a look at why he later retreated from the neorealism it introduced

By Joseph Luzzi | Wednesday December 1, 2010
Women in profile reading on the beach

The Great Summer Read

By Joseph Luzzi | Monday June 17, 2019

Reassessing Rossellini

By Joseph Luzzi | Wednesday December 1, 2010

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