Botticelli's Secret
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Botticelli's Secret by Joseph Luzzi
A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Guardian Book of the Day Brilliantly conceived and executed, Botticelli's Secret is a riveting search for buried treasure.Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve
"A lively book…[Luzzi] brilliantly sets the operatic stage of vibrant, violent Renaissance Florence and brings to life the characters who helped resurrect Botticelli" -- Max Norman - The Wall Street Journal
"Wide-ranging...[Luzzi] reads Botticelli’s drawings as “a ‘poem’ in their own regard,” and as a crucial link in the “mapping of the human spirit’s transition” from one era to the next." -- The New Yorker
"The Italian Renaissance has rarely been so brilliantly examined or put before us in such a delectable style. I would recommend Botticelli’s Secret to anyone who loves art, who enjoys good storytelling, and who is interested in how the human spirit rediscovered itself in such a magnificent and dramatic fashion." -- Jay Parini, author of Borges and Me
"Botticelli’s Secret is sheer delight from beginning to end. Under the guise of tracing a fascinating history, this book finally presents a compelling brief for the lasting importance to all of us, as thinking, feeling people, irrespective of nation" -- Ingrid Rowland, coauthor of The Collector of Lives
"Brilliantly conceived and executed...a riveting search for buried treasure. Luzzi takes one of the Florentine master’s least familiar works, his cycle of illustrations of Dante’s?Divine Comedy, and, tracing its history along winding passages from the fift" -- Stephen Greenblatt, author of Tyrant
"Wide-ranging...[Luzzi] reads Botticelli’s drawings as “a ‘poem’ in their own regard,” and as a crucial link in the “mapping of the human spirit’s transition” from one era to the next." -- The New Yorker
"The Italian Renaissance has rarely been so brilliantly examined or put before us in such a delectable style. I would recommend Botticelli’s Secret to anyone who loves art, who enjoys good storytelling, and who is interested in how the human spirit rediscovered itself in such a magnificent and dramatic fashion." -- Jay Parini, author of Borges and Me
"Botticelli’s Secret is sheer delight from beginning to end. Under the guise of tracing a fascinating history, this book finally presents a compelling brief for the lasting importance to all of us, as thinking, feeling people, irrespective of nation" -- Ingrid Rowland, coauthor of The Collector of Lives
"Brilliantly conceived and executed...a riveting search for buried treasure. Luzzi takes one of the Florentine master’s least familiar works, his cycle of illustrations of Dante’s?Divine Comedy, and, tracing its history along winding passages from the fift" -- Stephen Greenblatt, author of Tyrant
Joseph Luzzi is the Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature at Bard College and an award-winning scholar of Italian culture. His book Botticelli’s Secret was named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and was shortlisted for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Award. He lives in New York's Hudson Valley.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781324066019 |
| ISBN 10 | 1324066016 |
| Titel | Botticelli's Secret |
| Autor | Joseph Luzzi |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | WW Norton & Co |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2023-12-05 |
| Seitenanzahl | 352 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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