When: Wednesday, November 09, 2022 From 6:00 pm To 7:00 pm - Where: Istituto Italiano di Cultura - NY - Entrance : Free - Book presentation and conference by Joseph Luzzi Professor of Comparative Literature Faculty Member, Italian Studies

Some five hundred years ago, Sandro Botticelli, a painter of humble origin, created works of unearthly beauty. A star of Florence’s art world, he was commissioned by a member of the city’s powerful Medici family to execute a near-impossible project: to illustrate all one hundred cantos of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, the ultimate visual homage to that “divine” poet.