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The Divine ComedyPrimaveraThe Birth of VenusThe nineteenth-century rediscovery of Botticelli’s Dante drawings brought scholars and art lovers to their knees: this work embodied everything the Renaissance had come to mean. From Botticelli’s metaphorical rise from the dead in Victorian England to the emergence of eagle-eyed connoisseurs like Bernard Berenson and Herbert Horne in the early twentieth century, and even the rescue of precious art during World War II and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the posthumous story of Botticelli’s Dante drawings is, if anything, even more dramatic than their creation.Botticelli’s Secret

Joseph Luzzi is professor of comparative literature at Bard College and an award-winning writer, teacher and scholar of Italian culture. He is the author of four books and lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.