#2
September 2018
The DeepRead

Welcome to Issue 2 of The DeepRead, a newsletter dedicated to book-lovers & Italophiles. It's my pleasure to share recent news & developments. I look forward, as always, to hearing from you.

Cordiali saluti / Happy Fall,
Joseph


Letter from Italy

I was honored to spend the Fall 2017 semester in beautiful Florence, where I was a Fellow at Harvard's Villa I Tatti. Highlights of my time included a talk at NYU Florence (see pic below), and an interview with the Florentine magazine here.
Transcendent Art

A highlight of my time in Italy was seeing the stunning Brancacci Chapel, painted mostly by Masaccio. It was like an "art school" in the Renaissance: Michelangelo, Botticelli, and Leonardo, among others, went there to study the work. Here's one of its gorgeous scenes; if your travels take you to Florence, I cannot recommend seeing this work highly enough.
Brancacci Chapel
Click here for Giorgio Vasari's famous "vita" or bio of Masaccio.
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Joseph Luzzi
What's New
Listen to This

It was a joy to speak on the Italian American Podcast as part of "the conversations that help us keep our Italian American traditions alive."

Listen  here.
My Two Italies
Writings
& Sightings

Hot Off the Press...
Here's my piece in Read It Forward on how great literature like Dante's
Divine Comedy  can help us move "beyond grief."


Recent Italian Fiction...
Take a look here for my NY Times review on some of the best new Italian writing.

Seen in Florence...

Botticelli's "Portrait of Simonetta Vespucci"

il Duomo

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