FACULTY
Nicholas Patruno
Co-Director and Professor of Italian, Bryn Mawr College
Phone: 610-526-5047
e-mail: npatruno@brynmawr.edu
Roberta Ricci
Co-Director and Assistant
Professor of Italian, Bryn Mawr College (On Leave Summer 2008)
Phone: 610-526-5048
e-mail: rricci@brynmawr.edu
Nicholas Patruno has been teaching at Bryn Mawr since 1969, and directed the Bryn Mawr-University of Pennsylvania Summer Institute in Florence, Italy, for several years. His main academic interests focus on 19th and 20th century Italian literature, 
translation, and on the pedagogical aspect of language teaching (with the aid of computers). In addition to courses in elementary and intermediate Italian, he teaches courses both in Italian and in translation, on Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, on Primo Levi and the Holocaust, on Italian romanticism, the short story, and 20th-century prose and poetry. He has published works on Giovanni Verga, Elio Vittorini, Eugenio Montale and on Primo Levi. His most recent work deals with Primo Levi and Italian women voices of the Holocaust.
Roberta Ricci received her Ph.D. in Italian Literature from Johns Hopkins University, after a Laurea in Lettere Moderne (summa cum laude) at the University of Pisa with an interdisciplinary study in the 
Twentieth-Century European avant-garde (literature, music and art). Her academic interests are Medieval prose and poetry, Renaissance Studies, Women's Studies, Modern Italian Fiction, Critical Theory and Paratexts. She has published articles on the Latin elegy, Boccaccio, Tasso, Ariosto, Female Renaissance Epistolography, and on 20th century Italian authors, such as Alberto Savinio, Italo Svevo, and Carlo Emilio Gadda, among others.
COURSES
Students are required to register for one two credit unit (CU) or for two CUs courses.
• Italian S 001-002
Intensive Elementary Italian (2 credit units)
For beginners who wish to complete the equivalent of one year of elementary Italian (Patruno, Ricci, staff)
• Italian S 101-102
Intensive Intermediate Italian (2 credit units)
For students with one year of Italian and wish to complete the equivalent of second year of Italian (will count to fulfill language requirement at Bryn Mawr) (Patruno, Ricci, Staff)
• Italian S 200
Italia Oggi (one credit unit)
Advanced course to be conducted in Italian for students with at least the equivalent of two years of Italian. (TBA)
• Italian S 202 The Italian Short Story (one credit unit)
This course, to be offered in English*, will focus primarily on the writers of Tuscan origin, including, among others, Boccaccio, Machiavelli, Cassola, and Pratolini. (TBA)
*(students who wish to receive credit in Italian will be expected to do reading of original Italian texts and do writing assignments in Italian. The instructor may request to meet with students for some additional time to discuss material in Italian)
• Art History
The Art of Pisa and Tuscany (one credit unit) This course will focus on the art in Pisa and in other places in Tuscany, primarily Florence. There is no substitute for art to be appreciated in situ. (TBA)
