Ciao tutti –
NEXT MEETING of the 2018-2019 PROGRAM YEAR IS
THIS COMING WEDNESDAY, OCT 10
Our speaker this evening will be Professor Mary O’Neil, an Associate Professor of History at the University of Washington, who will be presenting “Niccolò Machiavelli on Politics, Religion, and War”. Machiavelli served for a time as political advisor to the Borgia family and immortalized the amoral warlord, Cesare Borgia, by dedicating his book, “Il Principe” (The Prince) to him. Machiavelli was excommunicated in his own time but remains a seminal figure in political thought even today.
Professor O’Neil received a BA from the University of Chicago and PhD from Stanford University. She has been a University of Washington associate professor since 1981. She also studied at the University of Bologna with Carlo Ginzburg, the Italian historian who has been a pioneer in the use of Inquisition trial records to study popular beliefs.
She has taught courses at the UW on Medieval and Renaissance Italy since the 1980s, including a course on “Rome: the City in History from Romulus to Mussolini”, which was designed as a basic introduction for students going on Study Abroad programs at UW Rome Center.
So come along and get to know more about another fascinating Italian from the Renaissance.
As usual our Pre-Dante Pasta Dinner will be ready at 6:30 and the program will start at 7:30. Please bring an antipasto, dolce, or vino to share.
If you plan to come for the dinner as well as the presentation, please make your reservation by 5:00 pm Monday Oct 8 by clicking on the button below, calling our Information Line at our NEW number, (206) 289-0419 or emailing your request to our NEW reservation email, reserve@danteseattle.org.
Let us know how many are in your party. This will help our volunteer cooks know how much pasta to prepare.
Cost is $8.00 per person or $15.00 per couple to be paid at the dinner. Cash, check, credit or debit cards accepted.
Our meetings are held at the Garden House (formerly Headquarters House) located at 2336 15th Avenue South in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Seattle.
Avoid the traffic! The Garden House is a short walk from the Beacon Hill Light Rail Station.
Feel free to come early to help set up the room and start visiting. And, in any case, please come.
A presto –
Dan DeMatteis,
President, Dante Alighieri Society of Washington
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.