Botticelli’s Secret

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“Brilliantly conceived and executed, is a riveting search for buried treasure.” —Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Italian Renaissance has rarely been so brilliantly examined or put before us in such a delectable style. I would recommend 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. Luzzi’s best book yet, full of intimate and personal insights into the masters and masterpieces of Renaissance Italy and told with his unique blend of scholarship and superb storytelling. 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 [or] social class, of coming face-to-face with transcendent human endeavor. Brilliantly conceived and executed,?is 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 fifteenth century to our own time, uses it to unearth the astonishing riches of the whole Italian Renaissance. Richly detailed and fluidly written, this is a master class in art history. US

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