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I am a professor of Italian and the author of an art-based interdisciplinary textbook, Luminoso: Learning Italian with Cultural Stars (2021)—an expanded edition of my book Stellare: Learning Italian with Cultural Stars (2015)—whose profits are all assigned to the organization EMERGENCY USA to fund medical care for survivors of war and poverty.
I am a professor of Italian and the author of an art-based interdisciplinary textbook, Luminoso: Learning Italian with Cultural Stars (2021)—an expanded edition of my book Stellare: Learning Italian with Cultural Stars (2015)—whose profits are all assigned to the organization EMERGENCY USA to fund medical care for survivors of war and poverty.
With cultural lessons that contextualize Italian grammar and vocabulary, Luminoso (like Stellare) teaches language through the arts, including a recipe by the great Lidia Bastianich, films by Ferzan Ozpetek, Marco Tullio Giordana, Nanni Moretti, and Fred Kuwornu, photographs by Gianni Berengo Gardin and Silvia Amodio, paintings, prints and drawings from great collections including The National Gallery in Washington, and songs by Elisa, Pacifico, and Gianmaria Testa. With grammar exercises based on short readings on anti-mafia photography, the astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, the artist Edmonia Lewis, and a documentary on the Buffalo Soldiers in Italy at the end of World War II, for example, the book also includes journalism and historical film in its diverse media. In addition, the book has illustrations by Nicoletta Costa and Felicita Sala. The book is available from online sellers such as this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08Y4T75F9
With cultural lessons that contextualize Italian grammar and vocabulary, Luminoso (like Stellare) teaches language through the arts, including a recipe by the great Lidia Bastianich, films by Ferzan Ozpetek, Marco Tullio Giordana, Nanni Moretti, and Fred Kuwornu, photographs by Gianni Berengo Gardin and Silvia Amodio, paintings, prints and drawings from great collections including The National Gallery in Washington, and songs by Elisa, Pacifico, and Gianmaria Testa. With grammar exercises based on short readings on anti-mafia photography, the astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, the artist Edmonia Lewis, and a documentary on the Buffalo Soldiers in Italy at the end of World War II, for example, the book also includes journalism and historical film in its diverse media. In addition, the book has illustrations by Nicoletta Costa and Felicita Sala. The book is available from online sellers such as this one: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08Y4T75F9
I am also the author of an art-based textbook of Intermediate ESL, in which each exercise is based on a work from The National Gallery of Art in Washington, Bright Words: Art-Based Intermediate ESL. The radiant artworks illuminate exercises to practice grammar and generate discussions, with topics touching on the city, country, family, home and description of individuals. The final exercise, for example, presents a reading comprehension lesson and discussion question based on Sojourner Truth's meeting with Abraham Lincoln in 1864. The book is available as a paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Bright-Words-Art-Based-Intermediate-ESL/dp/B08GVD79FN
I am also the author of an art-based textbook of Intermediate ESL, in which each exercise is based on a work from The National Gallery of Art in Washington, Bright Words: Art-Based Intermediate ESL. The radiant artworks illuminate exercises to practice grammar and generate discussions, with topics touching on the city, country, family, home and description of individuals. The final exercise, for example, presents a reading comprehension lesson and discussion question based on Sojourner Truth's meeting with Abraham Lincoln in 1864. The book is available as a paperback: https://www.amazon.com/Bright-Words-Art-Based-Intermediate-ESL/dp/B08GVD79FN
I am interested in women's roles in political rhetoric in medieval and Renaissance literature. My article, "Marriage and Political Violence in the Chronicles of the Medieval Veneto," published in the journal of The Medieval Academy of America, Speculum (2011), and based on my Columbia dissertation, argues that highly polemical historians expressed notions of tyranny in terms of accusations of gross violations of the tacit social code for marital alliances. The imperial vicar, Ezzelino III da Romano, was accused repeatedly of subordinating marriages to purposes of war, rather than allegiance; and among the most egregious examples was that of Ezzelino's sister, Cunizza, said to have had five serial partners, each with implications in large-scale military politics. I argue that chroniclers' accounts could have influenced Dante's celebration of Cunizza in the Divine Comedy's heaven for lovers.
I am interested in women's roles in political rhetoric in medieval and Renaissance literature. My article, "Marriage and Political Violence in the Chronicles of the Medieval Veneto," published in the journal of The Medieval Academy of America, Speculum (2011), and based on my Columbia dissertation, argues that highly polemical historians expressed notions of tyranny in terms of accusations of gross violations of the tacit social code for marital alliances. The imperial vicar, Ezzelino III da Romano, was accused repeatedly of subordinating marriages to purposes of war, rather than allegiance; and among the most egregious examples was that of Ezzelino's sister, Cunizza, said to have had five serial partners, each with implications in large-scale military politics. I argue that chroniclers' accounts could have influenced Dante's celebration of Cunizza in the Divine Comedy's heaven for lovers.
In addition, I am the author of a book of fictional New York stories for children, The Adventures of Mrs. Patropolis (2016): https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Patropolis-Diana-Silverman-Ph-D/dp/1535103698 The work is the winner of the First Place Purple Dragonfly Children's Book Award in the LGBT Category for 2017.
In addition, I am the author of a book of fictional New York stories for children, The Adventures of Mrs. Patropolis (2016): https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Patropolis-Diana-Silverman-Ph-D/dp/1535103698 The work is the winner of the First Place Purple Dragonfly Children's Book Award in the LGBT Category for 2017.
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