Joseph Luzzi will read from his book
The Innocents of Florence: The Renaissance Discovery of Childhood
One of The New Yorker‘s Best Books of 2025
How a Florentine orphanage rescued thousands of children and revolutionized childhood education amid the splendor of Renaissance art.
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.
Sunset Readings are free and open to the public
Reception on the portico to follow the reading