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Program Highlights

SMALL AND BIG ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO INSPIRE��NEW IDEAS

Incredibile! Il Volo has a message for the students of the �������� Italian Program! Gianluca Ginoble, Piero Barone and Ignazio Boschetto, great singers of the world-renown group Il Volo, recommend students to study hard! .

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Bridge to Italy: New Studies on Italian Opera. Two-day Festival has included a series of lectures by Alessandro Malavasi (University of Padua); a symposium with doctoral students from Steffani conservatory in Castelfranco Veneto and University of Padua and Parma; and a wonderful concert with a new composition by Luca Belloni on an unsung hero, Lorenzo Da Ponte, with rich cultural references, plus, two poems by Castelnuovo Tedesco’s Romancero Gitano - performed by the ensemble of Schola Cantorum of Florida, directed by Monica Berovides-Hidalgo and Juan Antonio Pena, guitarist. March 2026. .

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Virtual visit to the Museum of Italian Emigration (MEI) in Genova with director Paolo Masini. Visit facilitated by the Education Office of the Italian Consulate General in Miami, February 2026.

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Director Robert Tinnell met the audience after the screening of his Feast of the Seven Fishes (2019), delightful movie that opened our Italian American Film and Culture Festival. The festival continued with a lecture by journalist and writer Andrew Cotto on Italian Food as a Muse.

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We celebrated the 100th birthday of writer Andrea Camilleri with a theater adaptation of his La concenssione del telefono (by Manuela Filomena, with��New York Italian Theater actor Mario Merone and Alessio Giovene for the first time on stage) and a lecture by Prof. Giuseppe Capecchi of University of Perugia (first on right at the table). February 2026.

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An animated snapshot of the staged reading of I pettegolezzi delle donne / Women's Gossip by Carlo Goldoni (1750). See news below. .

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John Carney, MA student, and Ilaria Serra translated I pettegolezzi delle donne/ Women's Gossip by Carlo Goldoni (1750). We staged a reading with students of Italian and Acting at the X International Symposium Italy in Transit on February 6th, 2026. The Italian newspapers noticed!

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Actor Mace Perlman brought his original handmade masks to class. He demonstrated and involved Advanced Italian students in an a Comedy of Art show. February 2026.

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An Italian Cruise to the Bahamas with �������� professors! This new idea had success: 56 people signed up, eager to learn Italian. And we receoved a $750 scholarship for our students! Next cruise on March 8-12, 2027 (Maria 954-880-4879).

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Arianna Salomon, PhD candidate in Comparative Studies, published " " in Italica. Journal of the American Association Teachers of Italian (2025) 102 (1). Congratulations!��

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The Italian and Italian American Book Club meeting directed by Melania De Siena and Ilaria Serra was surprised to receive a video greeting from Adriana Trigiani, author of The View from Lake Como (2025), speaking from a street in New York!

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Dr. Giampaolo Molisina, University of Georgia, gave the keynote lecture at the end of "Rome: A Film Retrospective," 5-film series preceded by introductions and art history presentations. The notices how �������� and UGA—two of the few programs in the southern United States offering��PhD courses in Italian Studies- wish to strengthen their ties.

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Teresa Picinich, long-time Boca Raton resident, is interviewed by Arianna Salomon, for the Italian American Oral History Archive. She tells how her faith has accompanied her travel from her hometown of Altamura (Bari) to becoming a successful real estate businesswoman in Florida.

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From the rehearsal to the Italian Festival on the Beach. Mattia Colore led the �������� Italian Choir in a double performance at the Italian Festival on the Beach in Deerfield, November 1-2, 2025. .

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Olivia Forlini, double major in Italian and Business, presented her research on Cesare Beccaria's Jurisprudence and Contemporary Bioethics at the Undergraduate Research Symosium in �������� Davie, October 2025.

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Mario Sica, former Italian ambassador and translator of the major works by Lord Baden Powell for the Italian Scouting movement, meets the students of Dr. Ilaria Serra's Intermediate class. Italian Scout Francesco Sica and Ilaria Serra are both professors at Florida Atlantic University, in Math and Italian.

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�������� Italian Studies participates in the XXV Week of Italian Language in the World with the Guglielmi Festival. The full program included three concerts, one opera in Italian and Neapolitan, two master classes and a research symposium, stemming from Barbara Salani's dissertation and fruit of a collaboration between �������� Italian Studies, Music Department and the Conservatory of La Spezia. Click for the whole program.

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President and Lady Hasner in the audience of the opera Amalia e Carlo by Pietro Carlo Guglielmi, highlight of the Festival Guglielmi, interpreted by��artists from Conservatorio Puccini and from ��������. The evening was dedicated to the memory of our students Talya Dunleavy and Nicoletta Sorice. : opening remarks and overture.

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Dr. Barbara Salani and the full cast of the opera Amalia e Carlo, including �������� choral students trained by Dr. Patricia Fleitas, Dr. Mitchell Hutchings as the Count and Dr. Ilaria Serra in her stage debut!

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�������� partners with the South East Chapter of led by Dr. Benedict Albensi, Pharmaceutical Sciences Professor and Chair at Nova University (center of this playful portrait, with the hat).

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Congratulations to �������� graduate Dr. Marianna De Tollis and FATI President (Florida Association Teachers of Italian) who organized the first exchange between West Boca High School Italian Program and Castiglione Fiorentino, in October 2025.

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Connor, Genesis, Reese, Courtney, Danilo and Aimee participate in the Treasure Hunt for Italian art at the Boca Raton Museum of Art with students of Intermediate and Advanced Italian. Their tour with Dr. Teresa Russo included the Parma Portraits and Glasstress. October 2025

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After more than two centuries, the opera “Amalia e Carlo” by Pietro Carlo Guglielmi�� returns to the stage in Massa (Tuscany) in September 2025. A n�� international cast and crew staged the opera which was the topic of Dr. Barbara Salani's dissertation. A group of �������� students and donors accompanied Dr. Salani (in the center) and Dr. Mitchell Hutchings (artistic director) for the world premiere.

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Dr. Ilaria Serra receives the knighthood insignia of Cavaliere della Stella d'Italia, from the hands of Consul General of Italy in Miami, Michele Mistò, with Michele Cerrato, director of the Italian Cultural Institute, Dr. Myriam Ruthenberg and long-time friend Priscilla Johnson.

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�������� President Hasner listents to Reeselyn Haring, Italian minor, presenting her research project "Preserving Voices: An Oral History of the Venetian Ghetto and the Jewish Community Legay" at the Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium. See the . The project took place in Venice under the mentorship of Prof. Ilaria Serra and was the recipient a $4000 grant for the SURF-Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.

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The post by Luca Zaia, the governor of the Veneto Region, who hosted a visit of �������� students at Palazzo Balbi, the seat of the regional government, on the Grand Canal. Summer 2025.

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Team picture: �������� Italian teachers, Arianna Salomon, Manuela Filomena, Barbara Salani, Teresa Russo, Alessio Giovene, Emanuele Pettener and Ilaria Serra, celebrate their work under the Florida sun.

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Conversing on the Divine Comedy, after the academic presentations by students in Dr. Russo’s “Dante in Translation” class. Among them, the heavy marble bust of the poet from the �������� art gallery. 900 years later, Dante’s poetry is alive…

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A new film project is starting to blossom at �������� Italian Studies under the direction of Manuela Filomena, which documents the Italian American soul of the variegated group New Florida Follies.�� Among the dancers, aged 55 to 97, is Arlene Spagna, friend of the �������� Italian Program (in the photo with Manuela and Ilaria Serra). , work in progress.

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The beautiful Sicilian Proverbs series by Maryana Corollo, BFA student, in exhibit at the �������� Ritter Art Gallery. They will be highlighted at the 2026 Italy in Transit symposium.

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Actor Luca Vullo performs in��the tropical sweetness of �� the �������� amphitheater, making the large audience laugh with his "The Language of Italian Gestures". Event co-organized by the University of Central Florida and the Istituto di Cultura di Miami. April 7, 2025. .

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�������� Italian Studies enjoyed a night at the opera,���Ѵdz�������’s Marriage of Figaro at the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach, thanks to a generous donation, the Dana and Robert Iommazzo Invitation to the Opera for Students of Italian (April 4, 2025).

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Giovanni Agnoloni, author and translator from Florence, Italy, speaks to �������� students and community members of Le rivelazioni del viaggio (Ediciclo, 2024). he speaks of the "revelations" he experienced while visiting �������� and South Florida (March 2025).

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Stella Potenti, Italian Minor, presents her undergraduate research on for ITAMM-Italian American Memories Archive, at the �������� 15th Undergraduate Symposium. April 2025.

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Weekly Oretta del Cappuccino with our students in CU second floor. We make coffee and we eat the cookies offered by �������� maintenance man, Tony Cimillo from Barletta. Italian friends everywhere!

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Dean Michael Horswell congratulates Ilaria Serra, who is Faculty honoree at the 2025 Culture, Arts and Society Today Party. "Your chair provided a very compelling recommendation, and the committee is thrilled to honor you." February 2025.

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The historic car race Mille Miglia arrived to Florida, and we welcomed the cars passing through Boca Raton, by organizing a presentation with Paul Baxa (Ave Maria University), author of Motorsport and Fascism: Living Dangerously (Palgrave, 2022); Daniel J. Simone, PhD, Curator for the NASCAR Hall of Fame; and Luca Contessa, electric engineer for Formula 1 Minardi car (in the photo, we hold pieces of a Formula 1 car in our hands). February 25, 2025.

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"History and Storytelling on Stage": a presentation by Denny Bonicolini, PhD student at the Autonomous University in Barcellona and author of La storia in scena. Percorsi di teatro di narrazione (Leonardo, 2023). The Italian actor and singer led the audience in a musical number, "Aggiungi un posto a tavola." February 2025.

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Dr. Barbara Salani successfully defended her dissertation titled "Amalia e Carlo by Pietro Carlo Guglielmi in Napoleonic Naples: Unearthing a Forgotten Opera" for her PhD in Comparative Studies. In the pictures, members of the committee: Dr. Mitchell Hutchings, Dr. Andres Espinoza, Dr. Alessandra Montali (Conservatorio Puccini La Spezia), Dr. Ilaria Serra (committee chair), supporting students and family.��

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Congratulations to Arianna Salomon, PhD student and TA, for the publication of her essay "Emigrazione da Piombino Dese: ��’h�𾱳����� poetico di Luciano Pallaro" in Quaderni veneti 14 (2025), peer-reviewed journal of the University of Venice. The essay won the Competition for Essays on Veneto migration funded by the Regione Veneto (ask Prof. Serra if you want to submit). Read it .

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Three nights dedicated to Medieval sacred music by women composers are the result of a collaboration between �������� Italian Studies, �������� Music Department and the Conservatory G. Puccini in La Spezia, with a grant of the Italian Ministry for University and Research. The Song of the Sibilla (directed by Alessandra Montali and Federico Bardazzi) was part of the IX Italy in Transit International Symposium.

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Nonna Night 2025: the big group of Italian students who were treated to a homemade dinner cooked by their Boca Raton Italian American nonne. The officers of the Order of the Sons and Daughters of Italy also gave �������� two scholarship checks.

Dr. Emanuele Pettener's novel Floridiana is translated into Spanish by Juan José Delgado Gelabert and published by Sloper Editorial, Palma de Mallorca.��

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Valentina De Cesare and Michela Valmori receive the prize "Letteratura delle Radici" (Literature of the Roots) at the Capitol in Rome, for E c'erano geranei rossi dappertutto ( And there were Red Geraneums Everywhere, Radici, 2024). Dr. Serra and Dr. Pettener wrote the Afterwords of the collection of short stories by Italian American women, believing in this project by their collaborators in Strade Dorate.

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Hollywood actor, Chazz Palminteri, appears on zoom to talk to the students of Italian American Cinema class on November 25, 2024. With wise words, he answers our students' curiosities about his movie A Bronx Tale (De Niro, 1993), one of the course favorites.

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Francesca Dainese, post-doctoral researcher from the University of Padua and the Center of Holocaust Studies in Paris, gave a lecture on the French roots of Madame Rosa, from Roland Gary's novel to the two movies with Simone Signoret and Sophia Loren. She ended our Sophia Loren Retrospective.

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Dr. Ilaria Serra receives the Columbus International Award (Rome-Miami), at the presence of Miami Italian Vice-Consul Giacomo Montrasio, "for having spread the love for Italian language and culture in all these years and for making it always more appreciated and studied," November 2024. .

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Mary Beth Lavin, MA student in Comparative Literatures: Italian, donates a historical picture to the Meucci Garibaldi Museum in Staten Island. The photo, discovered in the "Italian America: Translating Identities" class, shows her great-grandfather Polifonte Morelli standing with Antonio Meucci, the inventor of the telephone, on the porch of the house Meucci and Giuseppe Garibaldi shared in Staten Island. In the picture Mary Beth and Joseph Sciame, November 2024. Featured in.

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Screnwriter Silvia Scola, the daughter of director Ettore Scola, connected via Zoom with the audience of the Sophia Loren Retrospective at ��������, to comment the film "A Special Day" (1977), presented by Flavia Laviosa.

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Prof. Flavia Laviosa from Wellesley College (MA), visited the class"Italian America: Translating Identities" in Fall 2024. She also gave the keynote address at the conclusion of the Sophia Loren Retrospective Film Series.

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Two evenings dedicated to Venice: Beyond Rialto: "Of Grapes and Men: Stories of Migration and Viticolture between Veneto and North America" (event under the auspices of the Accademia Italiana della Vite e del Vino) by Dr. Elisabetta Tiveron (Kellerman Editore) and presentation of the novel Acque alte by Cristiano Dorigo (Meligrana Editore). Events part of the s.

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Singer and songwriter Mattia Colore (second from left) performed under the beautiful Florida sky in the event co-financed by NIAF On Campus program, a grant won by our student Club Insieme.

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Director and actor Michael Cavalieri presents his documentary A Door of Hell��in Fall 2024 in a moving presentation that included testimonies by the descendants of Sicilian sulfur miners. Co-sponsored by Italian Cultural Institute in Miami and Casa Italia.

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Italian artist Massimo Carulli presents his series of portraits "Italian Americans for ��������" as a special guests at the. His work appears in the website "Strade Dorate." He is also the designer of the Torre dell'Acqua dedicated to portraits of writers from Abruzzo in Monteodorisio, including John Fante.��

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Architect Gugliemo Zanette and Viktoria Somogyi (Association Naonis) present the Series "Italian American Icons," spectacular mosaics produced by the young artists of the School of mosaic makers in Spilimbergo, Friuli. They were special guests at the .

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Tenor Carlos De Antonis sings with our students in the Concert "Italian Contributions to American Music, which concluded the and was �� sponsored by NIAF On Campus and Italian Club Insieme.

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�������� Italian Studies hosted the on October 2024, where Dr. Anthony Tamburri received the IASA Service Award.

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Director Nancy Savoca meets the students of ITT3522 Italian American Cinema class to discuss her tragic comedy True Love (1989). Fall 2024.

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Author Loris Giuriatti among students of Intermediate and Advanced Italian. Giuriatti presented his book Il moro della cima (2022) and conducted an exercise on historical narration and historical revision�� with Paolo Malaguti (below) (co-organized by Istituto di Cultura in Miami).

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We started a new Italian Book Club coordinated by Dr. Melania De Siena! Readings and conversation are in Italian. The first meeting, on Paolo Malaguti's Piero fa la merica (2023), was followed by a meeting with the author in our classes (co-organized by Istituto di Cultura in Miami).

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DISH: Italian American traditions, recipes, stories have been captured into drawings by artist Laura Tanner and hand-printed on a kitchen towel (a proud mappin') in red and green. An original �������� Italian art production (sponsored by the Initiative for the Study of the Americas).��

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We wish good luck to Dr. Domenica Diraviam who has been hired as as an Italian professor at University of South Florida, after earning her PhD in Comparative Studies at ��������. We know she will do great things!

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Chapman University's Ferrucci Institute (Dr. Federico Pacchioni) joins �������� Italian Program (Dr. Ilaria Serra) in supporting the Gallio Film Festival Opere Prime, starting from 2024.��

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�������� Italian Studies has been invited to Ormea in Piedmont for a summer research camp to discover the interesting history of this border city. In the picture the research group with the Mayor Giorgio Ferraris.

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A group of enthusiastic students expresses their love for Venezia during the Summer study abroad program in Venice, 2024. This successful program fills quickly.

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�������� Italian students on the news as "the Angels arriving from Florida" who every year help local organization "Masegni e Nizioleti" to clean the walls of the city.

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One of many celebrations for the graduation of Italian Majors and Minors.

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"Italo Calvino's World" graduate class in the creative activity "i dimidiati" (after Calvino's The Cloven Viscount). Spring 2024.

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Undergraduate Researchers Stella Potenti and Ida Pettener interview Giulia Giulia Caruso Kanner, a war bride who ran the successful Talbert shop in Madison Avenue. The students, recipients of he Marco Pozza Research Fellowship for Special Projects, prepared a digital humanities page for the.

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�������� Italian Studies welcomes Carlo Rovelli, Italian theoretical physicist and writer, who gave an interesting lecture on white holes theory at Florida Atlantic University.

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Florida Association Teachers of Italian gives the "Career Award" to Prof. Ilaria Serra at the Italian Cultural Institute in Miami. May 2024.

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Dr. Deborah Mulligan attends Beginning Italian��classes �� and she appeared on the May 2024 issue of ComUnico, Unico International magazine, for her enthusiastic embracing of student life!

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�������� and the Conservatorio Giacomo Puccini in La Spezia, Italy have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The partnership strengthens after the perfomance of Monteverdi's Orfeo at Italy in Transit and the ongoing Opera Study Abroad Program.

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Manuela Filomena directs the set of the first docu-fiction on Italians in South Florida, from an idea by Enza Iadevaia, produced by Eufrasio Volpe, with the collaboration of the �������� Italian Program. The movie was released and shown at Italy in Transit 2024. Read .

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Ascoli Satriano (Foggia) and Pompano Beach sign the new Sister City memorandum proposed by Tony Philips. �������� Italian Program welcomes Mayor Vincenzo Sarcone and his entourage.

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World-renown singer Elena Bonelli presents "La canzone Romana" as a special guest lecturer in the Spring 2024 Italy in Lyrics class. Event co-sponsored with Casa Italia Miami.

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Anne Bosworth from Palm Beach State College presents her Italian American take on Frank Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life," an interesting rediscovery of a classic movie. In the Italian American Film Fstival Series co-sponsored by Palermo's Bakery.

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Dean Michael Horswell introduces �������� President, Stacy (Marchesi) Volnick, and Italian Consul General in Miami, Michele Mistò, before their opening remarks at the 2024 International Symposium "Italy in Transit," a wonderfully variegated and lively VIII edition.

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Boston puppetteer Andrew Periale performs in the opening session of the VIII International Symposium "Italy in Transit," following academic presentations on "Italian Puppetry Across Borders" by Federico Pacchioni (Chapman University), "Strega Nona in Puppets" by Domenica Diraviam (Broward College) and "The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Manteo (1884-1947)" by Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University).��

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Claudio Monteverdi's Orfeo digital hybrid opera performed for the first time in the US by the Music and Theater and Dance Departments at ��������, in collaboration with Conservatorio Puccini in La Spezia, was the final event of the VIII International Symposium "Italy in Transit." It included sounds of ancient instrument digitally recreated, AI immersive images, live dancers, orchestra and singers.

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The VIII International Symposium "Italy in Transit" was dedicated to the memory of past PhD student, (1967-2023), also a doctor in Nuclear Physics, novelist, musician and unforgotten friend of the Italian Program.

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"Rahul" is a children story written by Manuela Filomena, PhD student, and illustrated by Paola Persello from Ivrea, Italy, with an with original music by Andrea Chiodetti. We believe it is the first ever written in three languages: Italian, English and Augmented Writing for autistic readers. Translations: Calli Abisognio and E.T.S. Famiglie Bambini Autistici Benevento ; designer: Bruno Testa, with the practical help of ITA1121 students. �������� Italian Program donates the book to surrounding schools that offer Italian classes.

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Students are invited to"Nonna Night" 2024, organized by the Order of the Sons and Daughters of Italy-Bonanno Lodge. This edition is special: Dr. Laura Graham (in the photo) and Dr. Ilaria Serra gather material for the joint publication of a comunity-based artistic Italian American recipe book.��

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PhD student Arianna Salomon is complimented by the Department for the publication of her article "La mano di Dante: la commedia italoamericana di Nick Tosches" in Campi Immaginabili international journal.

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Francesca Cocilovo, Emilia Erbetta, Karen Barone: winners of the context for the Settimana della Lingua Italiana anel Mondo 2023 organized by the Italian Consulate General in Miami. �������� won first prize for a collaborative storyboard on il Barone Rampante in Florida (with Boca West High School and Sunrise Park Elementary). Winners also Carmen Hagiiani, Amy Volpe. Teacher Ilaria Serra.

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Gabriella Bocca, the CEO of Lamebo in Turin, meets Advanced Italian students during the PMI Day (Piccola Media Impresa), November 2023, organized by Fabio De Furia (Miami Italian Scientifc Community).

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Prof. Millicent Marcus, Yale University, closed the Federico Fellini Retrospective (6 movies by the maestro with presentation and discussion) with two nights on Amarcord and on Fellini's Phenomenology of Dance. She also met �������� Italian students, dual-enrolled, undergraduate, Master's and PhD.

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Italian Major Orianna Soublette presents her research on photographer Luigi Ferrigno, started in Venice in Summer 2023. In the audience, an authentic Venetian, Margherita, who is completing an internship at Florida Atlantic University.

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Margherita Oselladore between Dr. Jeffrey Morton and Dr. Ilaria Serra, during her residence-internship organized by the �������� Italian Program, the University of Padua, Political Science, and the Leon Charney Diplomacy Program at ��������. The internship included a trip to Washington for Model United Nations, where she was awarded "Distinguished Delegate" and �������� team won the first place (again).

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Alessio Giovene, PhD student in Comparative Studies, presents "From Memory to Resistance: An Ecocritical Reading of Giovanni Raboni’s Le Case della Vetra,” at the Conference "Mutamenti. Overcoming Crises," Yale University, New Heaven (CT) in October. In the same month, Alessio also presented “The Arabic Presence in Ariosto’s Ferrara and The Saracen Perspective in Orlando Furioso,” at the SCMLA 80th Annual Conference in Corpus Christi (TX).

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The �������� Italian Choir (students, professors, alumni) directed by Barbara Salani sings at the Italian Festival in Deerfield Beach, October 2023.

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Lucia Cristina Tirri from Salerno and Nicoletta Sorice (�������� graduate) present their books in the special event "Fragments of Italy in the World," which included zoom interviews with memorialists from Canada and Argentina.

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Dr. Robert Lindner earns a PhD in Comparative Studies with a dissertation that brings medical practioners towards the art of Renaissance artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. Title "Phenoesthetics and the Arcimboldo Connection: Bridging Art, Science and Aesthetics in Clinical Practice." In the photo: Dr. Gerald Cupchik (University of Toronto), Dr. Lizz Petersen, Robert Lindner, Dr. Ilaria Serra (chair). Missing committee members, Dr. Eric Berlatsky and Dr. Emily Fenichel.

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Italian Consul Michele Mistò and Palm Beach Major Maria Sachs are welcomed by Florida Atlantic University President Stacy Volnick, at the presence of Italian Program's donors and students. October 2023.

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Italian student Mia Fiorino enjoyed a FREE trip to Italy, thanks to NIAF Voyage of Discovery and UNICO Highland Beach. This trip is dedicated to lucky Italian American students who have never been to their ancestral land.

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Dr. Pettener speaks about his new book on the Italian American writer John Fante in the national TV/Radio RTL 102.5 on August 19, 2023, interviewed by Lucrezia Bernardo.

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Our students feature in the Venetian daily paper when they cleaned the area around Rialto with a local volunteer group during the 2023 study abroad. They earned Academic Service Learning points through this "ritual that repeats every year." !

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Lake Garda, July 2023: one of the most pictoresque book presentations by Dr. Emanuele Pettener in his Italian summer. This is the Tignale book festival.

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Undergraduate Resarch in the home of photographer Luigi Ferrigno whose opera omnia was just accepted in the Querini Stampalia library in Venice .��

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�������� Italian cohort of scholars presented their research at the 100th AATI (American Association Teachers of Italian) International conference in Catania, Sicily. In front of the University in the old Benedictine monastery.

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Alumnus Kevin Merida Capote, Italian Major, fresh from a Master in Spain, gives a lesson on the relations between Venice and Aleppo, during the summer study abroad program in Venice, in the course Venice and Its Reflections. He took that same class 6 years ago!

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Mariagiovanna Elmi, beloved star of the Italian TV in the last decades, adds a touch of class at the end of the Spring semester, by chatting and dining with FAU Italian students and friends.��

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"The Ilanot Review," based in Israel, publishes a collaborative students' translation of Patrizio Zurru's "Il barbone in libreria" (from "Endecascivoli," Miraggi, 2021). Read the .

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A.D. Henderson �������� Elementary School: first Italian instruction pilot program, funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Il Circolo. Italian Cultural Society of the Palm Beaches. Teachers: Federica Vacca, Gina Rocco, Manuela Filomena, Barbara Salani.

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Florida Association Teachers of Italian annual meeting 2023: Lifetime Achivement Award to Dr. Ilaria Serra and Magda Novelli (FIU), Teacher of the Year award to Serena de Candido, and new officers installation: �������� alumnae, Dr. Marianna De Tollis (president) and Dr. Domenica Diraviam (vice-president).

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Prof. Giancarlo De Pascalis and three of his students from Apulia present on the “The Frescos of Santa Caterina in Galatina: Worship, Customs and Foodways between the XIV and the XV century,” live on zoom, in the class of Italian Culture Through Food and open to the public (April 2023).

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Congratulations to Jenny Said, recipient of the prestigious 2023 Lena Camiccia-Arnautou Excellence in Italian Studies Scholarship! Jenny is with Dr. Pettener's class and two more scholarship recepients:�� Ella Putigna and Nina Massucci who recevied the Order of the Sons and Daughters of Italy scholarships.

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Italian Culture Through Food special guests in class: spoke about table manners in Italy and Vincenzo Zarrilli shared special recipes and memories from Calitri centro del mondo. Alumnus Richard Zullo also presented his blog .

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Hobe Sound: �������� Italian group working on , a digital map through geometaphors and verses (visit the �������� page and the ). The event was included in the , March 2023.

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Students volunteered at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach for the 46th Gala, major fundraiser for Il Circolo, the Italian Cultural Society of the Palm Beaches. March 2023.

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Prof. Ilaria Serra meets the subject of her research: the Zoppé Family Circus, descendants from immigrant Alberto Zoppé from Vittorio Veneto, who joined the Ringling Circus, in exchange for an elephant. Read about this . Visit the digital archive of Zoppé's .

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Ferdinando Vicentini Orgnani, filmmaker from Italy, presents his documentary "The Beat Bomb" about his friendship with poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. Students read poems of the beat generation, on March 15, 2023.

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Maria Teresa Cannizzaro, author of "Dolce color d'oriental zaffiro," presents her research on Italian American jewelry makers, and looks at students modeling a few pieces of her personal collection. March 2023. Visit the Scholarship Rosina e Vittorio Cannizzaro for �������� students interested in this research topic. Click on picture to view video.

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Students and friends gather around Seth Stein who organized an Italian table at the CAST Party, a fundraiser for the College of Arts and Letters. February 2023.

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Pompano Beach Mayor Rex Hardin completed the Sister Cities Agreement with the city of Sorrento, thanks to Tony Phillips’s indefatigable work. Florida Atlantic University Italian Program starts a relationship with Istituto Sant’Anna in Sorrento. Scholarships available.

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Participants to the meeting with Laura and Barbara Bush,��past First Lady and Daughter, session "The Bush in Italy" during the VII International Symposium "Italy in Transit," February 11, 2023.

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Director Matteo Fresi meets the audience on Zoom after canceling his flight to �������� due to the flu. He presented his movie "Il muto di Gallura" (2021), thanks to a new Sardegna Film Commission-�������� partnership.

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"Scenes from an Italian Trattoria" rehearsal and performace in Studio 2. The play, written and directed by Nicholas Diraviam and performed by high school students from Boca Raton High School, A. Dreyfoos School of the Arts, and Cooper City High School, for "Italy in Transit," is visible .��

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President Stacy Volnick, Dr. Borghi (Italian Consulate School Office Director) and Vice-Consul General of Italy in Miami, Eva Alvino, open the VII International Symposium Italy in Transit. "Sanremo flowers" offered by GKA Italian Honor Society students, in the session dedicated to Liguria.

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International Day of Remembrance in Italy - Giornata della Memoria 2023. Italian MA alumna, Odra Dorante, shares her research on the Shoah in Italy with the students of the Italian Program. January 27, 2023. Every year, on this date, we join in the remembrance.

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�������� Italian Choir and singer and songwriter Mattia Colore perform Adriano Celentano's "Preghero'" at Montana Tucker's Concert for Kindness at Florida Atlantic University, January 15, 2023. Click picture to watch the video.

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"Nonna Night" is the evening when Italian American grandmothers in Boca Raton cook a homemade meal for our �������� Italian students to celebrate the start of the Spring semester. An exclusive organization by the Order of the Sons and Daughters of Italy, Sgt. Bonanno Lodge.

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Isabella Cipollone-Movilla (center) celebrates her new job at the Consulate General of Italy in Miami, starting Spring 2023.

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Rosanne Limoncelli,��opened the three-night�� III Italian American Film Festival ��with�� Two Teresas�� (2021) in December 2022. After the discussion, t he f ilmmaker and director of Production for Film and New Media at the Kanbar Institute, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, ��commented: "Thank you for the most wonderful evening. Your festival is the best festival experience I’ve ever had."

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Domenica Diraviam discusses her PhD dissertation, "Decyphering Tom Di Salvo. A First-Generation Artist Between Sicily and South Florida," directed by Prof. Ilaria Serra with Prof. Sandy Norman and Prof. Brian McConnell (on video). Fall 2022.

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Italian Beach Bash in Deerfield Beach: f riends and students of �������� Italian program gather for the education �� fundraiser organized by Il Circolo-Italian Cultural Society of the Palm Beaches.

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Erasmus Plus Italian partners welcomed by the �������� Italian program and the �������� School of Business (host Dr. Joseph Compomizzi) . F AU is the first university in the United States to host the job-shadowing activity sponsored by �� the prestigious European grant. The group of Italian professors came from Legnano, Italy, in October 2022. .

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�������� has TWO winners at the Competition for the XXII Week of the Italian Language in the World, "L'Italiano e i giovani." Ashley Sorato (dual-enrolled student) and Laura Possu Zapatoski (Italian major) win a trip to Italy thanks to their creative videos on Made in Italy. Consul General Cristiano Musillo and Dr. Maria Rosa Borghi give the prize at the Italian Consulate in Miami. October 2022.

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Writer Kossi Komla-Ebri meets students and community presenting on "Culture and Literature as Instruments of Communication and Identity" in September 2022, for "In Between Lecture Series."

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A rchitect Carlo Scarpa's monumental door is cleaned by �������� students and local volunteer group "Masegni e nizioeti," during the 2022 study abroad program in Venice, Academic Service Learning. Watch us in the .

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Medieval scroll unraveled by alumna�� Cat C oule i n the Castle of Castiglione del Terziere, Tuscany, during the Poetry Research Camp in June 2022.

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"Storie e Memorie," 3-week �������� summer camp, welcomed students and professors from the regions of Friuli, Sardinia and Liguria (Fri.Sa.Li) to study Italian immigration to Florida in the project coordinated by Dr. Serra, Pietro Porcella (FATI), Jonathan O'Neill, Domenica Diraviam and Marianna De Tollis, July 2022.

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Orianna Soublette and Francesca Cocilovo received the 2022 Lena Camiccia-Arnautou Excellence in Italian Studies. Orianna studies Psychology and Italian, Francesca studies Speech Pathology and Italian.

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Italian American Heritage Society President Tony Di Perna welcomes Dr. Serra at the first in-person meeting in Boca Raton, May 2022.

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GKA Initiation and GKA Research Day Spring 2022. Gamma Kappa Alpha National Italian Honor Society Research Days are dedicated to hands-on study activities on specific projects, such as handwritten letters from WWII, an opera manuscript from 1812, Tom DiSalvo's engaging paintings. The Spring 22 Research Day was dedicated to a new art book project by Manuela Filomena, Calli Abisognio and Italian artists: "Rahul" (more to come in Fall).

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Two projects from the students/journalists of the class "Leggere la stampa" (Reading the Italian Press): the first Italian Soundscapes in Florida audio tour (click on the to take the tour) and the first issue of the newspaper "ITA@��������" (click on the to leaf through the paper).

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"Songs for Peace in Seven Languages": students, professors and singer and songwriter Mattia Colore (composer for Leonardo Pieraccioni's film) paricipated at the event organized by the Department of Languages, Linguistics and Comparative Literature and sponsored by the �������� Peace and Justice and Human Rights Initiative.

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Federico Blumer, author of "Il viaggio di scoperta," and the "inflorencer" Sara Innocenti explain their social media presentations of Italian art and culture to our live audience, in the meeting coordinated by Dr.Jonathan Ramazzini O'Neill. Recording available upon request.

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Franco Ferrini, screenwriter for Dario Argento and Sergio Leone, Alberto Lattuada and Carlo Vanzina, met the students for an interview on his prolific work, coordinated by PhD student Manuela Filomena. Recording available upon request.

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The Zoppé Family Italian Circus performs at the VI International Symposium Italy in Transit, February 2022. Their exhibition concludes the lecture about their family history between the US and Italy, delivered by Dr. Ilaria Serra. The family photographs are now part of the ��������. In the picture: Dean Michael Horswell and Ilaria Serra, between the members of the family Zoppé-Wallenda: Tosca, Chiara, Delilah and Delilah, Tino and Giovanni.

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Franco Beato's Nel mondo dei sottouomini con Luigi Bozzato was a class reading in Spring 2022. We celebrated the International��Day of Remembrance ( Giornata della memoria) with a Zoom meeting with author Beato from Padua, Italy.

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92-year old bersagliere Renato Gasi leads the student in a musical military march in "Leggere la stampa" class. Renato Gasi's story is the topic of the student-produced "" podcast map (new project). We miss him, may he rest in peace.

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Two �������� Italian outreach events: Dr. Ilaria Serra presents "Italian Film Composers" to the Italian Cultural Society in Naples, Florida, and thanks long-time friends of the Italian program, Il Circolo, Italian Cultural Society of the Palm Beaches, for their "investment" in Italian human capital.��

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Medieval costume show at ��������: high school students and parents from Boca High School (Prof. Maria Deriu) and West Boca High School (Prof. Marianna De Tollis), and Italian 2 �������� students take a guided visit.

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Consul General of Italy Cristiano Musillo opens the show "Fashion in Dante Alighieri's Times" in �������� Theater Lab, November 4, 2021. The program included Italian readings by �������� students, presentations on embroidery in the French Middle Ages (Chair Marcella Munson), embroidery in the British Renaissance (Maura Bernard, MA student), artisanal chocolate (by Italian graduate Ryan) and songs by Dr. Hutchings' opera students.��

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Divine Comedy Reading Marathon: 16 readers took part in �� three hours of uninterrupted reading in English or Italian. November 2021.

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�������� Italian Choir sings Dante's sonnet "Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare" arranged by Barbara Salani and led by tenor Carlos De Antonis (XXI Week of Italian Language in the World, 2021). Students from both Italy and US received the certificates of appreciation by the Consulate General of Italy in Miami. Click on the image to watch the video. ��

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Recording "Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare." Students and teachers sing Dante's sonnet arranged by Barbara Salani, for the video sponsored by the Italian Consulate General in Miami for the XXI Week of Italian Language, 2021.

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Intermediate Italian students with teacher Viviana Pezzullo, after their presentation of the works of art by Florida artists in an exhibit at the Schmidt Art Gallery at ��������.

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"Microfono aperto": Open-Mic Arts Showcase ��in a beautiful Florida evening, organized by Club Insieme. Songs by Jessica Romero, Calli Abisognio, Richard Leon, Clifton Dikes, Keyanna Diaz, Prof. Pettener and Serra, and Austin Sanniota Edwards. P oems by Isabella Cipollone and Attilia Cappelli.

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Manuela Filomena, Ph.D. student in Comparative Studies at ��������, interviewed in "Italian Cinema Today." She speaks about her experience at �������� Italian Program. Read the interview .��

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Liza Burnham thanks Calli Abisognio for her translation of "Destinazione Chicago" by Giuseppe De Bartolo, Professor at the University of Calabria. Our student's translation provides a precious link between two sides of the family divided by immigration.

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Castle of Castiglione del Terziere in Tuscany: a delegation from �������� Italian and the Italian Consulate General in Miami lay the groundwork for a new international study project. Watch the video invitation .

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"Concerto per Myriam," the celebration for the 35 years at �������� of Prof. Myriam Ruthenberg, founder of �������� Italian Studies. Sponsored by the Il Circolo. Italian Cultural Society of the Palm Beaches and the Consulate General of Italy in Miami. Directed by Barbara Salani; starring tenor Carlos De Antonis and the Italian Program Choir. The repertoire included the new composition "" by Barbara Salani. April 2021. Click for�� (50') and for (1'30").

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Interview with Dr. Ilaria Serra in "The Floridian," quarterly publication of the Grand Lodge of Florida, Order of the Sons of Italy, 21.3 (2021).

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Richard Leon and Calli Abisognio, recipients of the 2021 Lena Camiccia-Arnautou Scholarship for Excellence in Italian Studies. Calli also received the "Marco Pozza Research Fellowship for Special Projects" for her translation.

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Ph.D. candidate Domenica Diraviam publishes “Pascal D’Angelo: Translations and Transmutations” in VIA. Voices of Italian America, 32.1 (2021), 27-42.

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Augusta University, Georgia, and Florida Atlantic University students�� present the tri-lingual translation of Viviana Viviani's poems. �� Viviani joined the meeting from Milan and talked to Dr. Emanuele Pettener's Intermediate/Advanced Italian class and Dr. Giada Biasetti's Spanish translation class, April 2021. Dr. Biasetti earned her MA in Comparative Literature at ��������. Watch to the .

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II �������� Italian American Film Festival in Spring 2021, organized by Manuela Filomena (from her computer in Campania!). Guests are filmmakers Andrea Didado, Nina Misuraca Ignaczak, and Jeannine Guilyard. Opening greetings by Basil Russo (ISDA), Courtney Ruffner and Alan Gravano (IASA). Some special guests: Nicola Timpone (Marateale Film Festival) and �������� alumnus Simone Puleo, Ph.D.

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“Il verde senso: An Analysis of the Symbolic Meaning of the Garden in Italian and Italian American Culture” is presented by Isabella Cipollone Movilla at the 11th Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, April 9, 2021. Faculty mentor Dr. Ilaria Serra. Isabella was also the recepient of the Myriam Swennen Ruthenberg Award for Writing Excellence in Italian.

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Author Elisabetta Tiveron meets the students for a Venetian walk among Palladian villlas and green cuisine, in celebration of the 1600 anniversary of the foundation of Venice.

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Italian student and Printing club president, Kylie Aylies, silkprinting the bags for the participants of the V International Symposiu Italy in Transit.

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Caleigh Tosner shows her level B2 Italian language certification earned at Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Spring 2021. Caleigh is Dr. Pettener's student.

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The first student to graduate with an Italian Major, Pino Panzera, class of 1997, shakes hands with Dean Michael Horswell.

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Dr. Myriam Ruthenberg is honored for 35 years of service at Florida Atlantic University by the Italo-American Cultural Association, president Tony Phillips, in March 2021. Here also with Paul Finizio, president of Il Circolo of the Palm Beaches-Italian Cultural Society.

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The Italian website, " " published works from the "Italian American Cinema" class, in translation. Their considerations on key-images of Italian American cinema are titled "Immagini: frammenti di italoamericanità."

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Judy Levis Krug Boca Raton Virtual Jewish Film Festival: Dr. Serra discusses the Polish-Italian movie,"Dolce fine giornata," with Wendy Honig, artistic director, March 2021. The collaboration with the festival is ongoing.

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Ph.D. candidate, Viviana Pezzullo, publishes a scholarly article in the new annual, peer-reviewed journal "gender/sexuality/italy." The article is titled "Rural Italy in Feminist Writing: Dialogism, Polyphony, and Heteroglossia in Amanda Guiducci's La donna non è gente"��and is available .

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"Italian America: Translating Identities" class meets five living�� research topics: memorialist Arlene Spagna (from Boynton Beach), the Zoppe' Circus family (from Arizona), the curators of poet Efrem Bartoletti's archive (from Bologna), Mariolina Camilleri, daughter of the great Andrea Camilleri (Rome) and Rabbi Barbara Aiello (Calabria). Spring 2021.

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"Intervista Impossibile" (Impossible Interview) to ��la lupa ��in Dante's�� Inferno, recorded by the students of Masterpieces of Italian Literature class. ����������video entry for the competition��organized by the Consulate General of Italy��in the 700th anniversary of Dante's death.

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Authors Kathleen Powell and Brittni Zilberti meet the students of Readings in Intermerdiate/Advanced Italian class to discusses their works from Italy: ��the novel In balia della corrente and the blog of an American expat in Italy . February 2021.

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"Calandra Corner," the web magazine of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute in New York, interviews MA student Federico Tiberini, Ph.D. students Viviana Pezzullo and Domenica Diraviam, and undegraduate Isabela Ribeiro-Ochoa, Hristo Joseph and Dr. Ilaria Serra. They tell Joseph Sciorra about the new collection of letters Fruttauro-Vivo in the Itamm-Italian American Memories Documentary Archive (see sidebar menu). The interview is on .

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Venetian writer Tiziano Scarpa meets Florida Atlantic Unversity students of Advanced Italian and the students of the Dante Alighieri�� school in Venice, January 2021. Scarpa discussed and presented the new edition of Venice is a Fish. The meeting is on .

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West Boca High School has a new teacher of Italian: Marianna De Tollis, Ph.D. in Comparative Studies. Congratulations! Read Marianna's story in the .

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Roman forum and Roman Ghetto: live v irtual visit, led by�� Fulvio De Bonis, Roman tour guide, and introduced by �������� Ph.D. student Seth Stein on a cold January Saturday. International Day of Remembrance 2021.

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Louis Giannetti, renowned film critic and author of the classic textbook "Understanding Movies," meets students (and ex-students) of Dr. Serra's "Italian American Cinema" class, on December 14, 2020. Giannetti is an Italian American scholar and a dedicated teacher who enjoyed the interaction with the students.

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First �������� Italian American Film Festival led by Master students Odra Dorante and David Brubeck on December 2-4 2020 (organized by graduate students of the Italian program in collaboration with NIAF, ISDA and the Russo Brothers Film Forum). This is the opening night with filmmaker Anton Evangelista, and a few of the many participants. The Festival is now a yearly event (see left sidebar menu).

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Poet Viviana Viviani meets Dr. Pettener's Italian Advanced students who translated her work in class. She joined the conversation from Milan, Italy, on November 17, 2020.��

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The virtual exhibit of the Art of Tom Di Salvo, "Beyond the Nets" is a project by Ph.D. student Domenica Diraviam. Di Salvo was a unique painter, a friend of the �������� Italian Club Insieme, and a Domenica's dissertation topic. His work and his personality are really "al di la' delle reti," and they won't be forgotten. Visit the exhibit .

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Ryann Kretz is the winner of the popularity prize at the Competition "Il Fumetto" promoted by Consulate General of Italy in Miami for the XX Week of Italian Language.��Ryann is a dual-enrolled high school student. Her drawing of her dog, her best friend during quarantine, won her an all-paid study trip to Italy.

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Moreno Burattini, screenwriter of famous Italian comics "Zagor" and "Lupo Alberto" is interviewed by Dr. Emanuele Pettener and students from five universities, with consul Cristiano Musillo, in the event organized by the Consulate General of Italy in Miami for the XX Week of Italian Language.

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Three poems by poet Viviana Viviani translated in Dr. Emanuele Pettener's Intermediate/Advanced Italian class are published in the Italian LitMag "Formicaleone." Students worked with passion and debated on each single comma. They are Giuliana Barile, Angela Benitez, Caterina Casadei, Hugo De La Piedra, Alexandrina Dec, Rosie Kenna, Ryann Kretz, Richard Leon, Heidi Moura, Sasha Passadore, Mickela Pitter, Nicole Siedlarek, Dante Silvestri, Seth Stein. Click to read��the poems.

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Stanislao De Marsanich, president of the Rete Parchi Letterari-Paesaggio Culturale Italiano is a guest of the final class of the graduate course "Poetic Geography of Italy," Spring 2020. The entire conversation (in Italian) is . The title of the class became the title of the session of the virtual Gran Tour, organized by the journal Leggere Tutti and Parchi Letterari. Click and find minute 10:49:10 to listen to the presentations. Click for developments of this collaboration.

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Poets Anna Toscano from Venice and Luciano Cecchinel from Revine Lago, meet the class "Poetic Geograohy of Italy" taught by Dr. Ilaria Serra.

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Onyx De La Osa, past vice-president of the Italian Club "Insieme," graduated with a Master of Arts from University of Cetral Florida, with a thesis on Sicilian history, titled "The Uniqueness of a Kingdom: The Frontier Kingdom of Norman Sicily in Comparative Perspective." He says: "My knowledge of Italian helped me read history books."

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"Everything will be fine"-"Andra' tutto bene" and the peace flag: in Spring 2020, thousands of rainbow flags, mostly painted by children, repeated this encouragement from every balcony in Italy. This class flag was prepared by students of the Beginning Italian class, inspired by Gianni Rodari's poem "Speranza" (Hope).

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The transition to virtual instruction of Italian and World Literature, due to the pandemic, according to Viviana Pezzullo, graduate teaching assistant and PhD candidate at Florida Atlantic University: she relies on simplicity and human connection to reach her students. Watch and read it.

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Italian during the pandemic: classes and Club Insieme meetings never stopped. For the impact of Covid in the Miami Scientific Italian Community, click .

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Climbing the ladder of success: Angelo Ybarra, International studies major at �������� Honor College; Gabriela�� Rojas, Linguistics major with Italian Minor: Dean's and President's list Fall 2019 and Spring 2018; Heidi Moura, Italian major: Dean's List Fall 2019; and Rosie Kenna, Social Work major: President's and Dean's honor list Summer and Fall 2019.

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Bocce ball players at the celebration of the Venetian Carnival 2020 in the �������� Campus. Little did we know this would be our last club meeting before Covid 19 lockdown.

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GKA Research Day in Spring 2020. Undergraduate and graduate students meet for primary source research. They read and decypher old family letters in Italian found��on a curbside in New York City and brought to the J.D. Calandra Italian American Institute.�� They are the��core of the��Vivo-Fruttauro Collection, the latest addition in our student-driven Itamm-Italian American Memories website ().��The research day bring together members and future members of GKA Italian National Honor Society at ��������.

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Three of our Graduate students' essays have been published in "Luci ed Ombre," a respected�� on-line Italian Cinema journal: Marianna De Tollis, "A Woman, a History, a Movie: Ida Dalser's Tragic Resistance from History to Film" (IV 1, 2016); Enza Iadevaia, "Il melograno e la memoria. Il cinema di Fariborz Kamkari. Identità punteggiate del Cinema Italiano Contemporaneo" (VII 4, 2019) and Natale Filice, "La funzione di Cavalleria rusticana tra riscrittura del Sacro e crisi della presenza ne Il Padrino Parte III di Francis Ford Coppola (VII 3, 2019). Read them .

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Federico Fellini's 100th birthday celebrated by t he �������� Italian Program. Our contribution to the world-wide event was a presentation on selected pages from "Il libro dei sogni," directly sent by Comune di Rimini, Fellini's hometown.

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The first 3-D printing of the capitals of the Doge's Palace by Nicholas Christodoulidis, product of an independent research with Prof. Ilaria Serra. Nick, a student of Italian and graduate of the School of Architecture, participated in the 2009 Study Abroad program in Venice. This innovative research was presented at the��2020 �������� International Symposium "Italy in Transit."

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Twice-nominated Pulitzer Price autor John Domini joins Dr. Emanuele Pettener for a conversation on Naples, Italian America and his latest novels. January 2020. A description of the evening and interview with the writer by Jessica Monge, .

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Program of the Year Award for the Venice Study Abroad Program: Dr. Emanuele Pettener and Dr. Ilaria Serra receive the award from Assistant Provost, Mihaela Metianu. Read more in .��

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Professor Ilaria Serra celebrates a wedding! Wonderful things happen sometimes, like this marriage between alumna Brittni Rallston with Alberto Zilberti, under the auspices of the �������� Italian Program, on January 2, 2020. The couple happily lives in Bergamo.

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Dinner prepared by the students of Dr. Myriam Ruthenberg's class "Italian Culture Through Food", to celebrate the end of the semester, ��2019.

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The concert "L'Italiano sul palcoscenico" opened the XIX Week of Italian Language in Florida at Florida Atlantic University, at the presence of the Italian Consul, Cristiano Musillo, and the participation of the students of Italian of Sunrise Park Elemenrary School, Loggers' Run Middle School, West Boca High. Tenor Carlos De Antonis rides a Vespa and �������� students Ethan Vogt and Laura Romero sing as soloists. A memorable event, October 2019. .

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IASA-Italian American Studies Association in Houston, Texas: Ph.D. student, Domenica Diraviam, and MA student, Federico Tiberini, present the web project ITAMM-Italian American Memories Archive, October 2019.

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University Honor Program: undergraduate and Honor student, Mary Forrest, presents her experience in the���� 2019 �������� Venice Study Abroad Program titled "Life starts at the end of your comfort zone."

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Undergraduate Researcher Nicole Barilla presents her poster "Foreign Loan-Words in the Italian Language," result of her work in Venice, Italy, as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow recepient.

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Graduate Research Symposium: Ph.D. candidate, Viviana Pezzullo, and research advisor Dr. Ilaria Serra, at the poster presentations, April 2019.

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Triangle Shrirtwaist Factory memorial in New York City (project led by Mary Ann Trasciatti, Hofstra University): the South Florida contribution was coordinated by �������� Italian in March 2019 for Festa della Donna.

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French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy interviewed by LLCL faculty members Dr. Frédéric Conrod and Dr. Ilaria Serra for the Palm Beach Book Festival at the University Theater, February 2019.

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The new Italian K-12 curriculum in Boca West, from kindergarten to the university is celebrated at ��������: Principal Craig Sommers (West Boca High), Myriam Ruthenberg (��������), principal Alicia Steiger and Luisa Mangano (Sunrise Park Elementary), Eufrasio Volpe (Loggers’ Run Middle School), Ilaria Serra and Emanuele Pettener (��������), on February 20, 2019. Thanks to ODLI (Organization for the Diffusion of Italian Language) and Consulate General of Italy in Miami.

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"Italian Film Dreams": video entry for the international competition “Vivere all’italiana” organized by the Italian Foreign Ministry and produced by the 2019 class, “Italian Language Through Cinema,” taught by Dr. Ilaria Serra. The short shows how you can “dream Italian” when you study with us! Click on the photo to see the full video!

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Vincenza Iadevaia, Ph.D. won a fellowship at Kadir Has University, and is now an Instructor of Italian at Boğaziçi University. She lives in Istanbul, Turkey. Her work to initiate theat �������� is the topic of this in the Journal of American Studies of Turkey.

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Marianna De Tollis and Vincenza Iadevaia celebrated their successful dissertation defense in Spring 2019: "Finding a Room on One’s Own: Veronica Franco and Sor Juana Inès de la Cruz” (De Tollis) and "Punctuated Identities in Contemporary Italian Cinema" (Iadevaia). In the first photo, Ozpetek's��iconic apples and advisors, Dr. Ruthenberg, Dr. Serra, and Dr. Guneratne. Marianna teaches at ��������.��

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Some special students: Salvatore Lepore, Professor of Chemistry, and Italian and French Major; George Mazzei and Thomas Connors De Angelis long-time tudents and auditors of Italian courses.

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Italian Consul in Miami Cristiano Musillo and Serenella De Rosa, Director of the Education Office of the Italian Consulate, visit Florida Atlantic University for the III Symposium "Italy in Transit". Here they are with Jupiter attorney Antonella Balzano, Nichola Cuellar, president of the Italian Club "Insieme," Dr. Ilaria Serra, Tony Phillips, president of Italo-American Cultural Society, of Pompano Beach and Norma Phillips.

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Nicolas Cuellar, �������� Freshman, president of the �������� Italian Club Insieme, won the NIAF (National Italian American Foundation) trip to Washington DC and was ��������-NIAF ambassador at ��������.

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Marjorie Hernandez won a $50 Amazon gift card for her Prize at photo competition “Italy in South Florida”, organized by FATI (Florida Association Teachers of Italian).

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Flaviane Chaves won the prize “Il cioccolato parla italiano," organized by Florida International University and the University of Perugia.

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MAPEI��headquarters and production center ��in Fort Lauderdale: Italian and Chemistry students visit the Italian-owned international firm, founded in Milan, specialized in materials for construction. PMI Day (Piccola e Media Industria), 2018 and 2019.

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Rick Zullo, Italian major, interviewed about his experience at �������� in "Sul Romanzo." Read .

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"Gente Veneta," �� Italian weekly newspaper, published�� a collaborative articles on multi-lingual religious services in South Florida, written by the students of "Reading the Italian Press."

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Angelo Sbrocca, Mayor of the City of Termoli, welcomed to Florida Atlantic University by Prof. Ilaria Serra. Sbrocca visited Florida to sign a new sister-city agreement with the town of Pompano Beach.

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VIA. Voices of Italian America��published the tri-lingual essay-memoir, titled "Radici perdute: una storia scomparsa torna in un presente italiano," by Master graduate, Jessica Monge.

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GKA Research Day: Marjorie Hernandez, Nicoletta Sorice, Viviana Pezzullo, and Federico Tiberini gather for one day of reading, cataloging, and describing documents from a World War II letter fund (Patricia Badia Johnson) for .

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Nicoletta Sorice graduates at 81 with a Major in Italian. �������� President John kelly congratulates our amazing student who tells her story in the Public Storyteller Radio program on NPR. Listen . Read the news here.

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The English subtitles for��Un Posto Altrove. A place Elsewhere by Luca Sella and Andrea Onori, have been translated by Advanced Italian students, Zachary Botte, Angela Dalton, Alexandrina Dec, Marjorie Hernandez, Samuele Pasqualotto, Logan Rosenfeld, Nicoletta Sorice, Daniela Rozman, and Prof. Ilaria Serra. The documentary tells two stories of immigration in the city of Venice (2017).

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“The Poetry of Italian Streets: Photography by Joan Nova”: Advanced Italian students, Alexandrina, Zachary, Nicoletta, Daniela and Angela present with Dr. Ilaria Serra at the Symposium Italy in Transit 2018.��

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Inauguration of the painting "Bagheria" by Tom Di Salvo, late friend of the Italian program, donated by the Di Salvo family. See the painting and Prof. Brian McConnell's explanation (picture below).

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Prof. Myriam Ruthenberg’s class on Dante’s The Divine Comedy read and comment their favorite cantos in the open air, to students of Introduction to World Literature.

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Author Rosemary Bracco talks about her novel The Sins of Castel DuMont, during the Oretta del Cappuccino in front of the “Grassroot” public art in Culture and Society building, ��������.

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Roman actor Fabio Pasquini lead the students of Advanced Italian in a short play by Luigi Pirandello.

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Filmmaker Samuele Rossi presented his first movie, La strada verso casa, to students and general audience welcome in the Michele D. Serra New Italian Cinema Series.

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Laura Evans, student of Italian, performs at the Italian Art Showcase.

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Mary Jane Saunders, Florida Atlantic University former president, greets students of Italian during their conversation hours, Oretta del Cappuccino, on campus.

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Giacomo Toni,�� pianist, singer and songwriter from Emilia Romagna, gives an improvised performance in the �������� music room for s tudents of Italian and our Boca community.

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Former presidents of the Italian Club, Nicola Pace (Ph.D. student in Mathematics), Madgalena Pire-Schmidt, and Pamela Fuentes sit at the “Club Insieme” table at a student organization event at ��������.

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