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The Center for Italian Studies and the University of Notre Dame Press are proud to announce that Brenda Deen Schildgen, distinguished professor emerita of comparative literature at the University of California, Davis, received this year’s Helen and Howard Marraro Prize for her book Dante and Violence: Domestic, Civic, Cosmic.

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The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections has recently acquired the following item: Il primo libro dell'opere toscane di M. Laura Battiferra degli Ammannati. Florence: Appresso i Giunti, MDLX.    

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A new Italian language course led is empowering Notre Dame students to educate students of their own — African refugees who must learn basic Italian before they can relocate to Italy. Through leading online class sessions, five undergraduates from a range of majors and one graduate student sharpened their Italian skills, learned how to teach others, and developed global awareness and empathy for the refugee experience.

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In the Spring and Summer 2022 the Rome Global Gateway hosted and co-sponsored a series of events in collaboration with the Center for Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame that strengthened an already strong long-lasting relationship between the Center and the Gateway.  The Three Crowns: Texts and Contexts of Medieval Italy. New Books of Italian Philology and Literature. II edition, 2021-2022…

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The Center for Italian Studies is pleased to announce that Giulia Maria Gliozzi, a first year PhD student in Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame, has received the Grandgent Award…

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The Rome Global Gateway is excited to open its doors to the first Rome Summer Program since  the global pandemic started in 2020. This year, the program is met with exceptional numbers and extraordinary academic and cultural opportunities. The Summer of 2022 will see a total of 217 students at the Gateway, which also include, among others, the 2022 edition of the Rome Seminar guided by Heather Hyde Minor, the Pre-College Program and the hospitality of a group from the University of Georgia. …

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The Center for Italian Studies is proud to announce that Lora Jury, a PhD candidate in Italian Studies at the University of Notre Dame, has been awarded a Wolfsonian Fellowship to investigate postcolonial Italian cinema.

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The Rome Global Gateway in collaboration with Notre Dame’s Center for Italian Studies has inaugurated a partnership with Roma nel Rinascimento - Rome in the Renaissance, an independent association born in 1984. …

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We are proud to announce that Giovanna Lenzi-Sandusky, Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Italian Studies, is among seven women recently featured by Notre Dame on the observance of International Women's Day for helping to create a more sustainable world through their research, scholarship, and creative endeavors.…

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We are pleased to announce that Giovanni Vedovotto, a doctoral student in Italian, has recently co-edited a new publication, La cultura di Dante (Treviso: B#S Edizioni, 2022).

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Ingrid D. Rowland, a professor in Department of History and School of Architecture, is one of three winners of the inaugural Grace Dudley Prize for Arts Writing. The award was among the Silvers-Dudley Prizes — named after the late Robert B. Silvers and his partner, the late Lady Grace Dudley — given to nine writers, including The New Yorker’s theatre critic, The New York Times’ critic at large, and journalists from Mexico, Germany, and Sudan. Rowland, who is based at Notre Dame's Rome Global Gateway, was commended for “extraordinary career-long achievement writing at the highest possible level on, in particular, Italian Renaissance art and culture, with such power, penetration, grace, and style.”

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Kathleen Sprows Cummings, Director of the Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism and Professor of American Studies and History, was among the panelists in a daylong symposium on "International Identities and American Saints" convened at the University of Notre Dame's Rome Global Gateway.

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A digital companion to the exhibit, "'Bound up with love...': The extraordinary legacy of Father John Zahm's Dante Collection," is now available online.

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The Center for Italian Studies is proud to announce the launch of the new Affiliate network, which brings together a group of alumni and scholars associated with Italian at Notre Dame.

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John W. Stamper, associate dean and professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame, died Wednesday (Jan. 5). He was 71.

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The D.S.U. of the University of Roma Tre, in collaboration with the Notre Dame Rome Global Gateway and Center for Italian Studies and Devers Family Program in Dante Studies, is delighted to renew its annual seminar dedicated to Francesco Petrarca.

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We are proud to announce that Christopher J. Nygren, Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Pittsburgh and Affiliate of the Center for Italian Studies at Notre Dame, has won the Renaissance Society of America’s 2022 Phyllis Goodhart Gordan Book Prize for the best book in Renaissance studies.

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