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Joseph Luzzi
Joseph Luzzi is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard College and an award-winning writer, teacher, and scholar of Italian culture. His latest book, Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance was shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize and was selected as a New Yorker Best Book of 2022. 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 writer, teacher, and scholar of Italian culture. His latest book, Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance was shortlisted for the 2023 Phi Beta Kappa Society’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize and was selected as a New Yorker Best Book of 2022. 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...
Vita 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 one of our most beloved teachers of Italian literature and culture.