A story of love and grief. 'I became a widower and a father on the same day' say
s Joseph Luzzi. His book tells how Dante's 'The Divine Comedy' helped him to end
ure his grief, raise their infant daughter, and rediscover love.
When you los
e your whole world in a moment, where do you turn? Joseph Luzzi found the answer
in Dante's opening of The Divine Comedy: 'In the middle of our life's journey,
I found myself in a dark wood.' One cold November morning, Luzzi, a professor an
d Dante scholar, was told his pregnant wife Katherine had been in a car accident
. She did not survive, but their daughter Isabel did, delivered by emergency Cae
sarean a mere forty-five minutes before her mother died. In one terrible instant
, Luzzi found himself both a widower and a father.
