Joseph Luzzi: 3 books
In a Dark Wood
What Dante Taught Me About Grief, Healing, and the Mysteries of Love
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
When you lose your whole world in a moment, where do you turn?
On a cold November morning, Joseph Luzzi, a Dante scholar and professor at Bard College, found himself racing to the hospital—his wife, Katherine, eight-and-a-half months pregnant, had been in a horrible car accident. In one terrible...
My Two Italies
A Personal and Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
A poignant personal account from a child of Calabrian peasants whose lifelong study of Italy unveils the mysteries of this Bel Paese, "Beautiful Land," where artistic genius and political corruption have gone hand in hand from the time of Michelangelo to The Sopranos
The child of Italian...
A Cinema of Poetry
Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
A Cinema of Poetry brings Italian film studies into dialogue with fields outside its usual purview by showing how films can contribute to our understanding of aesthetic questions that stretch back to Homer. Joseph Luzzi considers the relation between film and literature, especially the cinematic adaptation...