Heirs of a Dark Wood: The Principles and Poetics of Dante's Reception

Activity Type: 
Lecture
Presenter: 
JOE LUZZI (Bard College)
Date: 
Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 17:00
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
Cathedral of Learning, Room 332
Contact Person: 
Barbara Stolarz
Contact Email: 
brs114@pitt.edu

Joseph Luzzi is Associate Professor of Italian and Director of Italian Studies , and Co-Director of the first year seminar pro-gram at Bard College. . He received his Ph.D. in Italian Litera-ture from Yale university in 2000. Since then he has written a book, Romantic Europe and the Ghost of Italy, which has re-ceived the Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies from the Modern Language Association of America in 2009. He has also pub-lished reviews in the Los Angeles Times Book Review

UCIS Unit: 
European Studies Center
Non-University Sponsors: 
Humanities Center
Medieval and Renaissance Studies Program
Department of French and Italian
World Regions: 
Europe
Western Europe