Saturday Apr 19, 2025
1:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT
Saturday, April 19, 2025
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Westerly Library and Wilcox Park Auditorium
Westerly, RI
There is no fee and open to the public
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.
Professor Luzzi, will discuss his newest book, a new translation of Dante's Vita Nuova