Joseph Luzzi is an award-winning author, teacher and scholar whose most recent books include "My Two Italies" and "In a Dark Wood". His teaching interests range from Dante and comparative European literature to Renaissance Florence and Italian cinema. He is a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education and Times Literary Supplement.
The 19th-century rediscovery of Botticelli’s Dante drawings brought scholars and art lovers to their knees: this work embodied everything the Renaissance had come to mean.