Joseph Luzzi presents My Life with Dante: Translation and Tradition in Two New Books
Join the Vermont Italian Cultural Association and Phoenix Books for a virtual evening with Joseph Luzzi. He is the celebrated author of books about Italian literature and culture and a lifelong lover and teacher of Dante's poetry. His new version of the Vita Nuova is fresh, contemporary, and approachable—and is as vital and vivid as Dante's original Tuscan dialect—rendered in a voice that will entice a new generation of readers to swoon over one of the most heartbreaking stories of unfulfilled love in all of world literature.
About Dante's Divine Comedy: A Biography: Tracing the many afterlives of Dante's epic poem, Joseph Luzzi shows how it left its mark on the work of such legendary authors as John Milton, Mary Shelley, and James Joyce while serving as a source of inspiration for writers like Primo Levi and Antonio Gramsci as they faced the most extreme forms of political oppression.
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