Italian professor Danielle Callegari received the Beatrice Torrini Prize for her writing about Tuscan wine.

Take Professor Callegari's brand new course next Winter 2025:

ITAL 37.12: Premodern Italy & Food; A Bite-Sized History of Italy:The Story of how Italy became Italy through Food & Beverage Culture---While Italy as a nation-state has only existed since 1861, a sense of Italian identity long pre-existed that reality, thanks largely to a deeply-rooted, shared enogastronomic culture that became the envy of the world. Departing from the doormice and garum of the Roman Empire and arriving at the heresy of pineapple pizza, "A Bite-Sized History of Italy" will present a long-view, wide-lens portrait of a place that has become so well-known for its food as to almost preclude interrogation, even as it might be said that food is the very reason for its existence.Students taking the course for major or minor credit in Italian will attend a weekly x-hour and do all written work in the Italian. Prerequisites: A course in the Italian 10 series or permission of the instructor. World Culture:Western Cultures. Distributives: INT, LIT.