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    Graduate Program in Italian Studies

    The Graduate Program in Italian offers students a range of interdisciplinary options that provide a broad academic base in Italian literature, philosophy, film, music, theatre, art, cultural studies, and critical theory, as well as the most current pedagogical theory and practice.

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    Penn-in-Florence

    Our program in Florence allows students to improve their language skills while enjoying an immersive experience in Italian history and culture. Florence offers a wide array of resources for students, including world-renowned libraries and museums, culinary traditions, and fashion hubs. It is also a very livable city, with accommodations and places of interest all in walking distance.

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    The Center for Italian Studies

    The Center for Italian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania was created in 1978 by President Martin Meyerson and School of Arts and Sciences’ Dean Vartan Gregorian with the endorsement of the Republic of Italy. It has the distinction of being the first such center in the United States.

The Center for Italian Studies

The Center for Italian Studies was created in 1978 by the University of Pennsylvania President Martin Meyerson and by the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Vartan Gregorian, with the endorsement of the Republic of Italy. It was the first such center in the United States. 

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Events



Thinking Italian Plants: Giovanni Boine and the Olive Cathedrals of a Green Modernism

A talk by Deborah Amberson (University of Florida)
Mar 17, 2025 at - | Cherpack Lounge

Writing in 1911 of the crisis facing the olive producers of the Ligurian province of Imperia, Giovanni Boine shares a vision of biocultural entanglement that sees human, plant, and earth intertwined in the production…



Ora Italiana

Mar 18, 2025 at - | WILL 623



Look Back in Laughter: Medieval and Renaissance Aristotelianisms Put to the Test of Humor. A lecture by Andrea Robiglio (KU Leuven)

A Lecture by Professor Andrea Robiglio (KU Leuven)
Mar 19, 2025 at - | 625 Van Pelt Library

In a brief but influential passage from European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1948), Ernst Robert Curtius explored the unresolved tension within medieval Christian culture regarding ‘Comedy’: the…

Study Italian at Penn

Guidelines for studying Italian at Penn based on level of previous study.

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