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In Michelangelo's Shadow by Joseph Luzzi

In Michelangelo's Shadow

The Mystery of Modern Italy

by Joseph Luzzi


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7 Hrs. 30 Min.

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The director of Italian studies at Bard College, Professor Joseph Luzzi leads a comprehensive overview of Italian culture. Beginning in the fabled realm of Renaissance art and concluding with the sweeping transformations of present-day Italy, Professor Luzzi examines the Italian mystique and answers a number of intriguing questions: Is there a distinctly “Italian” way of looking at the world? To whom do Italian Renaissance treasures truly belong? Could the United States as known today exist without the contributions of Italian culture?


Lecture 1 Chiaroscuro Nation


Lecture 2 The Lives of Dante


Lecture 3 Petrarch's Dead Letter: Birth of Modern Italian Poetry


Lecture 4 Junior Year Abroad: The Grand Tour


Lecture 5 One Great Society: The Living and the Dead


Lecture 6 Florence After Florence


Lecture 7 Better Beautiful than Good (Italian 101)


Lecture 8 The Fig Tree and the Impala


Lecture 9 Money Talks: Language and the Lira in Post-Unification Italy


Lecture 10 End of the Affair in Italian Cinema


Lecture 11 Slow Food, Italian Style


Lecture 12 Mamma's Boys


Lecture 13 The Southern Question


Lecture 14 The Fine Art of Being Italian


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