Pitt Italian Program

Pitt in Florence summer students Annie, Julia and Nora joined us at Spazio Alfieri for Bologna-born Fred Kuwornu's latest documentary, We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe. A most interesting discussion followed this thought-provoking work 🎤 Grazie, Fred!

Our students have been in Rome with our prof. Cinzia Delfini and History of Art and Architecture prof. Tom Morton for 3 weeks (out of 6) now. Looking at their faces, what do you think? Are they enjoying our program? 😍

If you want to follow their adventures, follow them on their Instagram account https://www.instagram.com/roma_a_pitt2026?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==

Pitt in Florence runs a course for our Italian students at the fourth semester+ that we call Firenze Popolare, an immersion in the People's Florence ⚜️ as we build our vocabularies and work grammatical gymnastics. These engaged students enhance each other's awareness (as well as mine, their teacher!) of contemporary Florentine life, the people and spaces and storie da conoscere. A presto to these four galantuomini and benvenute to our summer FiPOP ladies 🇮🇹 Classes start domani!

We had a fabulous, full semester with 102 Pitt students all taking Italian classes at our local school in Florence this spring 🎒🫶 Grazie a tutti per il cuore e l'impegno! Here we are enjoying our final classes all'aperto: panini dal Sardo in Piazza Santissima Annunziata, primi al Torrino di Santa Rosa (after the worksheet..!) and gelati at our favorite gelateria, Perché No?

We're so excited that Renzo Carbonera is bringing his Italian production of August Wilson's Jitney to Pittsburgh next week, and so is the New York Times! Read on for their story, hot off the presses...

August Wilson Like You’ve Never Heard Him Before: In Italian (Gift Article) In three U.S. cities, a new production of the playwright’s cabdriver drama “Jitney” will be imported from Italy.

Last Tavola of the academic year! Thank to our friend Diego, we are all briscola fiends now, and we can't wait to meet again in August and play briscola all the time!!!

Our Fulbright chair Prof. Stefania Maci and our Prof. Lina Insana during their speeches at the Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia for the Fulbright Program anniversary!

Grazie mille to the Consul Nico Frandi and to the Director of the Italian Fulbright Committee Paola Sartorio for organizing such a lovely event! The Italian Program at the University of Pittsburgh has been a part of the Fulbright history for 30 years, and we hope to continue this fruitful collaboration for many years to come!

Public Announcement: an iPhone was left tonight in the auditorium of the Frick Fine Arts Building at the University of Pittsburgh during the Italian Film Festival.Please, email prof. Lina Insana at [email protected] to retrieve it.