* The culture of the Italian Baroque (Bernini, Caravaggio, still life painting, Marino and the Marinisti, Monteverdi and the Birth of Opera, Vico, Commedia dell’Arte)<\/span><\/p>\n * Italian Literary Romanticism (Foscolo, Manzoni, Leopardi)<\/p>\n * Italian Travel Literature (Ricci, De Amicis, Gozzano)<\/p>\n * Italian Modernism (D’Annunzio, Pirandello, Marinetti’s Futurism, Papini, Palazzeschi, the culture of the avant-gardes, De Chirico, Morandi, Fellini)<\/p>\n * WWII Literature: Calvino, Fenoglio, Pavese, Corti<\/p>\n * Italian visual culture in the 19th and 20th centuries: early photography (Primoli, Sommer, Pia, WWI repertoires), the silent era of cinema<\/p>\n * The birth of Italian\u00a0advertising, the history of Italian industrialization, and the early culture of industrial design<\/p>\n * Italian entrepreneurship, innovation, design thinking & industrial culture in contemporary Italy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Academic Interests * The culture of the Italian Baroque (Bernini, Caravaggio, still life painting, Marino and the Marinisti, Monteverdi and the Birth of Opera, Vico, Commedia dell’Arte) * Italian Literary Romanticism (Foscolo, Manzoni, Leopardi) * Italian Travel Literature (Ricci, De … Continue reading