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.
Joseph Luzzi
The Great Summer Read
Why do we persist in this often futile literary quest?
by Joseph Luzzi | Monday, June 17, 2019
A Masterpiece Born of the Black Death
Boccaccio’s Decameron reminds us to live with gratitude
by Joseph Luzzi | Thursday, June 04, 2020
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