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Joseph Luzzi
Joseph Luzzi is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard College and an award-winning scholar of Italian culture. His book Botticelli’s Secret was named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and was shortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley.
Joseph Luzzi
Joseph Luzzi is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard College and an award-winning scholar of Italian culture. His book Botticelli’s Secret was named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and was shortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley.
Awards
Shortlisted — Phi Beta Kappa Ralph Waldo Emerson Award, 2023
Books by Joseph Luzzi
Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
Joseph Luzzi
Hardback, 2022
A Guardian Book of the Day
A true historical “detective story” full of insight about how we look at art—and the artists and eras that produced it
Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
Joseph Luzzi
E Book
A Guardian Book of the Day
A true historical “detective story” full of insight about how we look at art—and the artists and eras that produced it
Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
Joseph Luzzi
Paperback, 2023
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022
A Guardian Book of the Day
“Brilliantly conceived and executed, Botticelli's Secret is a riveting search for buried treasure.”—Stephen Greenblatt, author of The...
The Innocents of Florence: The Renaissance Discovery of Childhood
Joseph Luzzi
Hardback, 2025
How a Florentine orphanage rescued thousands of children and revolutionised childhood education amid the splendour of Renaissance artThe Innocents of Florence: The Renaissance Discovery of Childhood
Joseph Luzzi
E Book
How a Florentine orphanage rescued thousands of children and revolutionised childhood education amid the splendour of Renaissance artVita Nuova
Dante Alighieri, Joseph Luzzi
Hardback, 2025
Dante's first masterpiece in an enticing new translation by a beloved teacher of Italian literature and cultureVita Nuova
Dante Alighieri, Joseph Luzzi
E Book
Dante's first masterpiece in an enticing new translation by a beloved teacher of Italian literature and culture