Dr. Leonardo Lastilla, who teaches our popular class Vine to Table: Italian Wines in Context, has just published a book of poetry, Epifanie interotte: Canzoniere Postmoderno (“Epiphany Interrupted: Postmodern Sonnets”). As explained on the back cover, this postmodern remake of Petrarch’s Sonnets is an ode to love in all its guises, “inexperienced, tender, romantic, erotic, destructive.”
Florence native Lastilla got his PhD in Italian Literature from University College, Dublin, and has taught Italian language and literature, travel writing, English literature, and food and wine studies for over 20 years. He has also published poetry and short stories in various