Please join the Dante Society of Westerly and author Professor Joseph Luzzi for a book discussion and signing. Professor Luzzi will discuss his most recent work, a new translation of Dante Alighieri’s Vita Nuova.

 About the author:

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 recent 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.