AUR Italian Studies Program

Another trip to the market for our Italian students! Prof, Balzarro took these students to Piazza San Cosimato.

What is your favorite market in Rome? 🥬🍓

Take a peak into the IS 212 Italian Food and Culture Class’s wine tasting and cooking class hosted at Garum Museum in Rome. Join us next time! 🍝🍷

The ITL 100 Introduction to Italian Language and Culture class went to visit some historic sites, La Fontana dell’Acqua Paola and the statue of Giuseppe Garibaldi, on Janiculum Hill with Prof. D’Arcangeli!

Our Italian 101 students out for a gelato with Prof. Balzarro🍦💛

Come learn with us at the Italian Help Desk this spring! 💚🤍❤️

📣 ADDITIONAL MOVIE ADDED 📣

Join us NEXT TUESDAY in Room B204 for the next movie in our Film and Lecture series!

On Wednesday, October 29th 2025, AUR’s Italian Studies Program was honored to host an evening with Italian American poet Joseph Bathanti as part of the Fall 2025 Film and Lecture Series Cultural Exchanges Between Italy and the USA. In addition to his work as poet and novelist, Bathanti is Professor of English & McFarlane Family Distinguished Professor of Interdisciplinary Education and Writer-In-Residence at Appalachian State University. Students were treated to insightful commentary by Bathanti and his collaborators Marina Morbiducci and Darby Di Mona regarding their collaboration in his latest publication Sempre Fidele: And Other Poems, which features the translation into Italian of his poems about growing up in Pittsburgh’s Little Italy. Students from AUR’s ITL 300 Advanced Italian class read a selection of the volume’s poems in both Italian and English.

Our next Italian Studies Program film is screening next TUESDAY! Come see “My Name is Tanino” - a part of the Cultural Exchanges Between Italy and the USA 2025 Fall Film Series!

Professor Catherine Ramsey-Portolano’s IS 220 Travels to/through Italy class had a class outing last week to the non-catholic cemetery in Rome. There they visited the resting places of many Grand Tour visitors to Italy from the 18th and 19th century- including John Keats and Percy Shelley.

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Our ITL 101 F and ITL 101 H classes, taught by Professor Anna Balzarro, had a sweet treat last week and went out for gelato to beat the heat!

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