DANTE ALIGHIERI SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON
2025-2026 Season
All in-person meetings take place on Wednesday evenings at the Greenwood Senior Center, (unless otherwise specified). Doors open at 6:00pm with presentations at 7:30.
RSVPs are requested by 5 pm on the Monday before English language meetings where dinner is served ($10/person). Italian language meetings are preceded by potluck antipasti. No RSVP is required for those meetings.
Live Meeting Guidelines
The Centers for Disease Control has issued updated guidelines for preventing the spread of respiratory viruses such as the flu, COVID-19 and RSV. Check out its guidance here: https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/guidance/.
Please do not attend a live meeting if you are showing respiratory virus symptoms. If you have had respiratory virus symptoms, but your symptoms are getting better overall, and you have not had a fever (and are not using fever-reducing medication) for at least 24 hours, you are welcome to attend, but please consider taking additional protective measures for at least 5 days, such as wearing a mask when attending one of our in-person meetings. See more detailed guidance here: https://www.cdc.gov/respiratory-viruses/prevention/precautions-when-sick.html
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Gabriella Vagnoli was born in Pisa, Tuscany, home of the famous Leaning Tower. She grew up in a multicultural family thanks to her Brazilian mom and remembers teaching Italian for the first time as a child to her Brazilian cousins. She obtained a Laurea in English and Spanish Language and Literature at the Università degli Studi di Pisa and during her college years spent a year in the University of Reading, UK, studying mainly the works of Shakespeare. After obtaining a Certificate as a Teacher of Italian (DITALS II) at the Università per Stranieri di Siena, she has taught in a full immersion school in Florence, a children's full immersion program in Chicago and a Community College in Illinois.
Tiziana was born and raised in Sardinia, a beautiful Italian island in the Mediterranean Sea. She has always been passionate about foreign languages and cultures, and studied French and German at the Scuola Superiore Interpreti e Traduttori in Milan, where she obtained her first Foreign Languages and Interpreter BA degree. She then pursued her MA in English and German Language and Literature at IULM, one of the most prestigious universities in Milan, Italy for Language and Communication studies.
Nicla is a native of Napoli, Italy. She has a Laurea in Materie Letterarie (degree in humanities) and a Laurea in Pedagogia (degree in Education) from the Università degli Studi di Cassino. She earned her M.A in Italian and her PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Washington. She has published articles and book chapters on gender and theater as well as politics and religion in Counter-Reformation Italy and in the last years, has been teaching Italian literature, language, and culture in different institutions. In addition to teaching in our program, Nicla is authorized to cover the role of esaminatrice and intervistatrice in our PLIDA Examination Board.
Born in the fabulous 80’s, Isabella was raised in Rome where she got her Degree in Teaching and Translation in foreign languages at the University ‘La Sapienza’.
Eric was born and raised in Como by an American mother and an Italian father. He holds a degree in Business Administration and Management from Bocconi University in Milan and a Master’s in Corporate and International Finance from Durham University in the UK. His international background led him to pursue a business career in the United States, ultimately settling in Seattle, where his wife grew up.