About: Amoz Luzzatto

Amos Luzzatto (born Rome, June 3, 1928) is an Italian writer and essayist of Jewish descent, born in a family of ancient tradition (his mother’s father, Dante Lattes, was one of the most important representatives of Jewish Italian culture in the 20th century; his father’s great-great-grandfather, Samuel David Luzzatto, was teaching at the Rabbinical College in Padua and was an Italian representative of the “Wissenschaft des Judentums”).