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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

A Masterpiece Born of the Black Death

Boccaccio’s Decameron reminds us to live with gratitude

by Joseph Luzzi | Thursday, June 04, 2020
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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

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
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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 01, 2010

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2nd Look

Where Does American History Begin?

by Ted Widmer

In honor of the Fourth of July, we’re revisiting Ted Widmer’s 2008 piece “Where Does American History Begin?” For many, the obvious answer is in 1776 Philadelphia, with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Others might argue that hints of modern America emerged in the Jamestown and Plymouth settlements. But America’s true beginnings, Widmer writes, go back much further.

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