Luzzi, Joseph

Joseph Luzzi, the first American-born child in his Italian family, holds a doctorate from Yale and is a professor of Italian at Bard. He is the author of "Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy", which won the Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies from the Modern Language Association, and "A Cinema of Poetry: Aesthetics of the Italian Art Film". An active critic, his essays and reviews have appeared in "The New York Times", the "Los Angeles Times", "Bookforum", and "The Times Literary Supplement". He is the author of the audio courses "In Michelangelo s Shadow: The Mystery of Modern Italy", "The...