Italian Culture Courses for Foreigners

Would you like to improve your Italian language by diving into our culture?
Are you interested in art, history, literature, politics ?

Our Italian Culture Courses for foreigners in Rome last two weeks and are usually held in the early afternoon. The goal is to introduce the student to the culture, politics and society of Italy. Subjects offered each month are art, history and literature.

You may ask for individual lessons about history of politics and Italian society, cinema, theater and opera.

• The History of Art course covers: From Byzantine Art to Neoclassicism; the High Renaissance: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raffaello; Venetian Art from Bellini to Canaletto; the Florentine 15th Century; Rome from Ancient Times to the 18th Century.
• A sample of the Italian Literature Topics with related reading-matter: Dante, the Inferno; the Birth of Poetry; Petrarch’s Canzoniere; Manzoni’s Promessi Sposi; Romantic Poetry: Foscolo and Leopardi; the 20th Century Novel; Sicilian writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries.
• The History Course covers: from the Unification of Italy to Fascism; from the Second World War to Modern Times.