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Living Italy Italian Language Discovery Florence Architecture Symposium Volunteer Prog.
La Fiorentina Crosswords: Firenze Today, New Generations: Chalk4Peace Conversation Exchange Tomorrow the World Recoding Vancouver and with Italian Students Barcelona C o n t e n t s C o n t e n t s
La Fiorentina I Giullari di Syracuse: Back to the Futuristi by Kathleen Baldassarre (Syracuse University) 4 (Acting Workshop, Fall 2011) 25
Crosswords: Conversation Exchange with Italian Students Studio Art Faculty Show by Kathleen Baldassarre (Syracuse University) 6 by Jennifer Morales (Amherst College) 26
Artigiani Fiorentini Studio Art Students Show Italian Department Site Visits 8 28
More Than Just Bread, Wine and Olive Oil SU Florence Outstanding Students by Marissa Donovan (Syracuse University) 10 31
It All Started with Artichokes: A Host Family Experience Faculty Watch by Marissa Donovan (Syracuse University) 11 32
Firenze Today, Tomorrow the World Remembering Carol by Ivan Zhivkov and Ruby Ayala (Syracuse University) 12 by Lara Roney 34
New Generations: Recoding Vancouver and Barcelona Poesia Italiana by Elvira Ibragimova (Syracuse University) 13 by Larissa Polidori and Tatiana Brito 34
Santa Croce Goes Digital by Kayte Norman (Syracuse University) 14
Option II Program: The World in a Classroom by Kaytie-Lynn Norman (Syracuse University) 15
Chalk4Peace Letter from the Director by Jessica Dysart (Syracuse University) 16 Dear Students,
Chianti: A Lesson in Italian Culture This is my first academic year as the director of Syracuse University in Florence, and I’m thrilled and honored to be taking the helm of such a thriving and respected institution. I have worked in international cultural exchange and study by Mason Rubin (University of Colorado, Boulder) 18 abroad programs in various countries for over 15 years now, and I can proudly say that SUF stands out. But I don’t have to tell you that; chances are you already know. If you don’t, read on. This issue of the Villa Rossa Voice provides a wide range of firsthand accounts of the many exciting initiatives available at SUF each semester. And who better to A Whole New World inform us of these than the students themselves? by Brianna Silvestri (Syracuse University) 19 By participating in one of the many programs or activities offered at SUF- be it volunteering with special needs children and adults, interning with a Franciscan basilica or attending a Fiorentina soccer game - students have the opportunity to live Florence fully, not as mere visitors, but as members of a thriving international community. Rome via the Arts To truly immerse themselves in this unique experience, we encourage our students to embrace a be-here-now phi - by Mason Rubin (University of Colorado, Boulder) 20 losophy, to seize the moment not only by engaging consciously in courses that challenge pre-existing worldviews, but by taking advantage of the many rich and rewarding experiences to be found outside the classroom as well. This way, we hope, they may leave here with a lifetime of memories to motivate and inspire them well into the future. Talented and Together by Valentina Palladino (Syracuse University) 22 Sasha Perugini Director Syracuse University in Florence Lucca Photo Festival 2011 By Shelby Hilt (Syracuse University) 24 Living Italy
by Kathleen Baldassarre
I was going to experience a real Florentine soc - the civic center I lived near in the U.S. that hosted cer game, where I could catch a glimpse of the assorted singers, basketball games and traveling great pastime held so close to the hearts of true shows. soccer fans. I would finally see firsthand the We crawled our way up into the open-air world around which my host dad Baldo’s life bleachers and were tossed into an enormous sea seemed to revolve. Maybe I would actually be of purple banners, hats and jerseys that swelled able to blend in and become engulfed in the in - behind the goalpost. Just in time for the Floren - tricate culture I had been trying so hard to un - tine anthem to play, everyone stood and belted derstand. out beautiful Italian phrases that held no mean - The five of us donned the famous royal purple ing for me. Yet somehow I could understand the of La Fiorentina as we headed towards the sta - pride and honor that seemed to radiate from the dium. I clutched my precious ticket that had surrounding stands. taken us the better part of the day to obtain and In the distance, the players lined up in their looked around the unfamiliar part of town. The starting positions like foosball pieces set on a fallen leaves were scattered under the bridge table. Cheers were shouted every time Firenze across the railroad tracks and the October sun came charging towards the goal and boos were dipped low between the buildings. I heard the emitted when a player was tossed to the ground stadium before we caught sight of it. Distant by his opponent. And when we scored a goal, it brass instruments summoned us towards the was madness. Strangers high-fived us and took mecca of excitement ahead. People swarmed our picture, everyone was on their feet in a dis - around the stadium in all directions. play of soaring emotions. The autumn night did - Typical of any endeavor in Italy, we had to ask n’t stand a chance against the fiery Florentine someone where to go and were kindly pointed emotions that surrounded us. in the right direction. Once inside the stadium I Firenze scored two goals against Catania in the was amazed at its vast cement interior. It did not first half. Unfortunately, Catania also made two La feel like a soccer stadium, but reminded more of goals as the clock was nearing the end of the sec - h s ond half. I’m no sports fanatic, but you wouldn’t o t n
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“Mi chiamo Kathleen,” I said to the group of The encouragement coming from students three teenage girls who were staring at me with fascination. I years younger than us felt strangely reassuring. They knew how foreign my name must sound to the Italian were interested in what we thought of Italy. What was students from Tuscany; “K” isn’t even in the Italian al - our favorite city? How did we like Florence? What was phabet. our favorite food? We learned a lot about each other “Mi chiamo Valentina.” and it was easy to find things to talk about. “Mi chiamo Giovanna,” the girls went around deliver - “My favorite animal is a lee-o-pard,” one of the qui - ing introductions in their beautiful, effortlessly flowing eter girls said shyly. native Italian. It was a small group It took us a second. “Oh, a leopard!” made up of three SUF students and Everyone giggled. I wanted to know four students from the visiting more about their life in Italy, what it Italian high school. We began to was like to grow up in such a fa - make small talk in a comprehen - mously beautiful place. One girl had sible jumble of English and Ital - twin brothers. Another student had ian. I learned from my host three dogs. They traveled two mom that Italian students have hours to come here and talk to us five years of high school fol - and would be returning to lowed by very difficult Livorno that evening by train. exams. The girls told us that Our class was only a couple of they were in their fourth hours long and when our time year. They were 17 and 18 was coming to an end I sud - years old and already spoke denly felt so many questions perfectly clear English. bubbling up and hastily tried At their liceo linguistico to translate them into Italian. they also studied the com - As we stood up to leave, a plex Italian grammar as well as spider crawled across the table German, Spanish and Latin on a daily basis. I felt in - we had been sitting around in the garden. The girl on creasingly hesitant to try and speak in front of them. my right recoiled and her friend sighed as she scooped “But you have only been here for two or three the helpless arachnid away. I laughed as her friend months, it is normal,” one of the girls said with the rolled her eyes. I don’t think we’re so different from endearing accent that I’ve grown so used to hearing. each other after all.
6 7 Italian Language and Culture
photos by Dana Lindsay
Artigiani Fiorentini photos by Rachel Platner Italian Language & Culture
Site Visits On this page: Top: Ippogrifo Stampe d’ Arte Left and below: Laboratorio Mecocci: Woodcarving and Restoration
On this page: Above: Casa Torre Lanfredini, exterior and interior and Sig. Bruschi speaking about medieval Florentine life photos by Jordan Brazo Right: Laboratorio Lastrucci: mosaics Below: Cecchi Metalli: metalsmithing
photo by Elizabeth Pastor photos by Kelly Cave
8 9 Homestays Living Italy My Host Family Experience Bread It all started with... More than just Wine and by Marissa Donovan Olive Oil ho For those of you who love chicken parmigiano, Our assignments also allowed us to fully im - ic k spaghetti and meatballs, shrimp scampi, and fet - merse ourselves into Italy’s food culture. One such t e tuccine Alfredo, Italy might not be the place for assignment involved visiting either the Central r s you. These foods are all commonly mistaken as Market or the Sant’Ambrogio Market--both of “authentic” Italian food but are actually Ameri - which I highly recommend visiting. These markets a can-Italian foods and not served in any of the provide you with a great experience as well as in - restaurants here in Florence. So what exactly do sight into the Italian ways of purchasing, prepar - Italians typically eat? ing and enjoying food. The traditional diet of those in Italy and other Through studying in Italy and taking this class, by Marissa Donovan parts of Europe can be encompassed in the term I have discovered that the Mediterranean diet is “the Mediterranean diet.” The Mediterranean diet not only about eating healthy, but also about en - I remember the moment vividly, when my host Italian customs, but this is nearly impossible to is more of a lifestyle than an actual diet; it involves joying life. mom asked me if I’d ever had artichokes. do when living with a host family. specific foods but also family mealtime and cul - “Of course I’ve had artichokes,” I said, not My host family speaks almost no English tural activities. When the Mediterranean diet was knowing that what I was used to eating are ac - which was admittedly a bit intimidating at first, first introduced in America, it was thought of as tually only the artichoke hearts. As you can imag - but now I would not want it any other way. As “heaven on earth” because you could have your ine, I was quite confused when she put an entire well as learning the language, living with an Ital - cake and eat it too. This lifestyle has been so widely renowned because of its immense health artichoke on my plate. I started to cut it with a ian family allows you to become accustomed to benefits that also allow you to enjoy food. fork and knife and my host sister burst out the local way of life. I’ve learned that showers This semester, I am taking a class called “The laughing. My host mom walked over to me and only last five to ten minutes, laundry only gets Mediterranean Diet,” which teaches students all exclaimed “Marissa, non mangiare questo!” as done once a week and lights are turned off about the eating patterns in the Mediterranean. she pulled off one of the leaves with her hand. whenever you leave a room. But more impor - During the semester, we have participated in a So I took the leaf and put it in my mouth and tantly, I have learned about Italian traditions and wide variety of tastings, cooking workshops, and BABA GHANOUJ began to chew, and my host sister laughed even what the people value and enjoy. fieldtrips that allow for interactive and enjoyable harder. My host mom held out a napkin and I As a nutrition major and food-lover in general, learning. Serves: 5 spit out the leaf. At this point I think she realized having family meals every night is by far my fa - One Friday we took a class trip to Chianti to tour Ingredients: that I had no idea what I was doing. Apparently, vorite part of the home stay. Although most a winery. After learning about the process of mak - 2 eggplants you are supposed to take off one leaf at a time, people think of excessive overeating when they ing wine, we did a wine tasting, keeping in mind Juice of 1 lemon- to taste dip it in oil and salt and then using your teeth, think of Italian food and meals, I have never ex - what we had learned about wine in class. Next we 1 ripe tomato, cubed scrap off the tender part, eat it and discard the perienced this with my host family. Although it’s got to sample some authentic Mediterranean cui - 4 Tbsp low fat yogurt rest. When you get to the heart the whole thing true in Italy we have more courses than I’m used sine made at the restaurant owned by the winery. 2 Tbsp tahini is soft enough to eat. After getting the hang of to in America, we also spend more time at the Our menu included seasoned and baked ricotta 2 garlic cloves, chopped this, I found the artichokes to actually be very table. Dinner is about so much more than just cheese, celery dumplings and goat ragout, duck 2 Tbsp chopped fresh parsley-to taste tasty! It’s moments like these that make me real - food; it’s also a time to catch up with family, relax meatloaf and a lemon almond mousse tart. 4 Tbsp Extra virgin olive oil ize I made the right choice when choosing a and have fun. Another day, we cooked a traditional Mediter - Salt and pepper to taste home stay. One of the most interesting things I’ve expe - Living with a host family this semester in Italy rienced living with a host family is that not only ranean meal with the assistance of two profes - 1. Preheat oven to maximum heat has proven to be one of my favorite parts of the are we trying to learn from them, but they are sional chefs. We made a variety of different dishes (around 400 Fahrenheit). Roast egg - including baba ghanouj, tzaziki, taboule, hummus, whole experience. When I was signing up for also trying to learn from us. I enjoy the fact that plants whole on baking tray for 20-30 study abroad, I knew that I wanted to live with our dinner conversations range from serious po - tajine di pollo and crème brulee. The chefs taught minutes until tender inside, skin may be us not only how to prepare these dishes, but how a host family so I am very glad Syracuse’s pro - litical issues, such as the rioting in Rome, to jok - burnt. gram had this option. I knew that having a host ing about how I eat pizza with a fork and knife. to eat and enjoy them. 2. Remove eggplant flesh from skin and Recently we went as a class to eat at a kosher Jew - family could make the difference between being It is so amazing to have my Italian family to puree with garlic in a blender or food in Florence and being a part of Florence. It come home to every night; it provides immense ish restaurant called Ruth’s. While we ate a typical processor. Add the remaining ingredi - Jewish Mediterranean meal, the owner talked would be very easy to get by in Florence without comfort especially in a place where almost every - ents and stir to gether. Can be served about the various Jewish dietary laws and how to speaking any Italian or adapting to any of the thing else is unfamiliar. warm or cold. keep kosher. Photo: Aroid
10 11 Discovery Florence Program Architecture Symposium Firenze Today the Tomorrow World
by Elvira Ibragimova
The annual Architecture Symposium held at Syra - regeneration? Could Detroit or Syracuse be “Van - cuse University’s Florence campus afforded us two couverized”? distinct and separate views on new models of re - Boddy’s answer was simple – “No, the model does generating urbanism. not translate to low growth, low income cities.” Van - Trevor Boddy, a critic and urban design consultant, couver is partly successful thanks to its public policy discussed Vancouver’s model of making an ultra- of allowing developers to build without a vertical urban space approachable to the public. Vancouver’s limit in exchange for providing ample public ameni - public policy allows developers to erect tall, skinny ties. In a city that is already a coveted place to live, buildings, given that a ground level ring of town - this is a small price to pay for a developer. At this houses and public amenities is also provided within point in time which developer is willing to shell out by Ivan Zhivkov the project. The city encourages this “hybridity” as billions for a project in Detroit or Syracuse? The fact a form of activating dead spaces and mixing pro - is that Vancouver’s model was not a response to a My bags were ready and I was dressed. The Discovery Florence program and others were grams to further promote a new form of urbanism. struggle or crisis. It is simply a self-perpetuating final months of high school and summer had upperclassmen. I met two of the freshmen This model is globally recognized as a successful fu - growth. You could say the same for Barcelona – the passed and a new chapter was about to begin. and I was very happy. Soon I would meet the sion of the private/public, an informed balance be - 22@ project was successful because the city is suc - I was to enter the world of college. However, other twenty trailblazers who had also decided tween nostalgic recreation and mega modernism. cessful and will always be a major destination for I would not enter it in the traditional way. I to take the leap into unfamiliar territory. We Jorge Perea, a member of the collaborative design millions of people from around the world. These would not have to pack the car and, along with were united by our love for adventure, a learn - network “Blue Barcelona” and a professor of Urban projects are not “solutions” because there was no my family, drive off to a grand campus with ing-through-seeing attitude and the open- Design at ETSAB and University of Chicago- “problem.” nicely mowed lawns and historical looking mindedness that we felt toward different Barcelona, presented the 22@ project in Barcelona, So how can we take the lessons we learn from an buildings. I would do it my way. cultures. Despite our shared outlook, we are a multi-billion dollar development in the Poblenou old, successful city and apply them back home? This I was about to embark on my first semester still very different. We come from different district that encouraged a mix of residential, public, transfer of globalized knowledge is a challenge for of college—not just any semester, but a se - backgrounds and have different viewpoints, business and green spaces. any student studying abroad; more specifically it is While the two models use vastly different strate - a great challenge for architecture students who in a mester abroad. I was heading to Firenze, Italia, which in turn adds to the uniqueness of the gies, the goal is the same: regenerate the urban year or so will be working within a shaky economy the Renaissance capital of the world and I group. spaces that threaten to lose their human aspect, use and a field more and more dominated by globaliza - couldn’t be more excited. I was just a fresh - We freshmen of SU Florence will have dif - public policy in order to alter the physical fabric and tion. No, we cannot Vancouverize Detroit, or hold man in college but I felt like so much more ferent experiences in this wondrous country. bring on social reform, discover the perfect balance the Olympics in Syracuse–but there are hundreds of than that. I was my own man. I chose to study However, the one thing that we will always in the relationship between the government and de - students returning each year, full of new ideas abroad for my first semester. I have always have in common is that we were those who velopment so that the everyday man benefits from learned from old European cities that have held up liked traveling and learning about different chose to start off college differently. We were the union. However, is the success of the city simply for centuries upon centuries. Perhaps between these cultures and this was my chance to do so. those who wanted something other than the the result of a number of fortuitous circumstances ideal models of success and our ever questioning At the airport I met the students that I traditional. We were the ones who took the or is the model applicable to other struggling cities? rustbelt cities back home lies a hybridity of a solu - would be studying with. Some were from the leap. Is this model transferable to places that desperately tion that one of us is forming at the back of our need help and are in fact in actual and dire need of minds today.
12 13 Internship Program Option II Program
Santa Croce Goes Digital An SUF intern The World in a launches the church’s Classroom first blog
by Kaytie Norman
Before I came to Florence, I imagined a lot popular area, especially for students, but I of things. I imagined ridiculously good food, doubt that many actually venture inside the piles of gelato, beautiful scenery, and really get - church itself, which is a shame. If it hadn’t ting to know the locals. Something I certainly been for my internship I would probably have did not dream about was getting an intern - never known that for a limited time it’s possi - ship—why would I want any more academic ble to get up close and personal with Agnolo work than necessary taking up my time while Gaddi’s recently restored fresco cycle in the I was in Florence? However, this being my last main altar. The church has decided to leave up semester of school, my resume was dying for the scaffolding for a few months to let the gen - more credentials before I’m finally thrown into eral public see Gaddi’s work up close. I think the real world, and so I sucked it up and ap - this hour was my favorite part of my entire in - by Kaytie Norman plied for an internship. ternship, because I got to see things that rela - And I’m so glad I did. tively few people ever will. My favorite The great thing about internships, aside from moment in the tour was seeing a three-inch tall Whenever I tell people I’m in the Option II Francini, such as a wine tasting and cooking looking good on a job application, is that if self-portrait that Gaddi painted 75 feet above program, I’m met with one of two re - lessons. you get one in the right field, they’re actually a ground. No one knows exactly why he did it-- sponses—utter confusion or pity. People ei - Classes are conducted completely in Italian- very enjoyable way to spend your time. On top it was likely a personal signature or even a joke. ther have no idea what this program is, or -the only language common to all students at of that, having an internship in a foreign coun - All I know is that people haven’t seen it for try makes it even more incredible, because hundreds of years, but I did. those who do know are terrified at the the Centro. This is one of the most interesting now your interests are being combined with There are also wonderful things to see on thought of getting up early every day and aspects of the Centro: I’m learning next to becoming a part of a whole new culture. I ex - permanent display inside this church. I had no going to class on Fridays. people from all over the world, including perienced this by helping to launch a student idea that there was a statue that our Statue of Every morning at 8:45, I find myself on the Korea, Spain, the Netherlands and Thailand. blog about the Basilica di Santa Croce. This Liberty was based on, but the Libertà della Poesia other side of Piazza Savonarola, across from Perhaps my favorite classmate is Suphawan, was a completely new project created by Paola is undoubtedly the inspiration. Santa Croce is the Villa Rossa, at the University of Florence’s a middle-aged nun from Thailand. She is an Vojnovic, a former Syracuse graduate student also the resting place of Galileo and Michelan - Centro per Stranieri (Center for Foreigners). incredibly sweet woman, and our attempts to and advisor for my internship. gelo, and it was incredibly humbling to stand My internship has been different from most in front of their tombs. The early mornings are difficult, yet the coffee explain American culture to her are often met in that I make my own hours, visiting the basil - The internship program is wonderful because machine in the break room quickly became with confused looks—you try explaining what ica and doing research as I choose to write ar - every student gets to interact with Italian cul - my favorite machine in Italy. The classes are a soap opera is to a nun who never watches ticles for the blog. I was pretty free to write ture in ways that they never would have been rigorous and challenging, but certainly not un - television! However, she is unfailingly kind, about whatever aspect I wanted in Santa able to otherwise. My time at Santa Croce was manageable. The medium-level course fo - and has a penchant for leaving us candy dur - Croce. I ended up writing about the School of breathtaking, and I love having broken new cuses primarily on grammar and speaking ing class breaks, which immediately made her Leather in the Franciscan monastery attached ground with the blog. Hopefully it will con - to Santa Croce, Five Things to See in Santa tinue to grow over the semesters, with my ini - skills, while the advanced course is based on one of my favorite people. Croce, and literary connections to Santa Croce. tial articles being the foundation for another upper level reading and writing in Italian. The Overall, I’m glad I chose to challenge myself I truly enjoyed spending a lot of time in the great internship through Syracuse University demanding schedule is compensated by spe - with the Option II program. The learning ex - basilica. I feel like I got to know and be a part in Florence. cial activities organized for the group by Op - perience has been well worth the early morn - of a place that so many students simply walk tion II & III Program Coordinator Professor ings and extensive grammar lessons. past. The Santa Croce neighborhood is a very blog: Santacroceinflorence.wordpress.it
14 15 Volunteer Program
by Jessica Dysart
Doves. Peace signs. The sun. These are the images drawn on the ground in bright yellows, pinks and purples. The stone path constantly traipsed by students to and from classes is usually overlooked. Today stu - dents stop to watch, however, careful not to step on the newly colored stones. The medium for these drawings? Chalk. This is John Aaron’s project Chalk4Peace. His mission is to spread messages of peace through collaborative chalk drawings. A Chalk4Peace event brings together children and adults of all ages and back - grounds, to promote peace, cooperation and tolerance of differences. Vittoria Tet - tamanti, an SUF Italian language professor and coordinator of the volunteer program, organized the event, which included the participation of SUF art classes (Nick Kraczyna’s Intro to Drawing, Kirsten Stromberg’s Intro Painting and Stefania Talini’s Digital Photography) as well as SUF volunteers together with cancer pa - tients and adults with special needs. All
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16 17 photo by Clio Castruccio Living Italy Living Italy A Chianti Whole New A Lesson in Italian Culture World
Text and photos by Mason Rubin
I found myself on a bus at 10 a.m. on a Sat - in late August/early September, they are hung urday, traveling through the stunning green in a dark, climate-controlled room for three Tuscan hillside on my way to the famous wine months so that they shrink in size and therefore region of Chianti. Upon arrival, we walked consolidate their sugars. The Verrazzano cellars through a luscious garden in front of an an - house an impressive collection of oak casks cient, hospitable-like villa and were greeted by that are then used to age the wine for up to one of the most passionate men I have ever three years before it is bottled. In other rooms met. His name was Gelli. He had lived and dusty bottles of aged wine wait to be sold or worked around Tuscany his entire life and had shipped overseas. spent his last 15 years at the Castello di Verraz - After the tour of the vineyard and winery we zano Vineyard. “Wine is life,” he told us. were led into a large dining hall to taste some by Brianna Silvestri In the Italian culture people enjoy wine from selected wines, which would, of course, be a young age unlike in America where drinking paired with traditional Tuscan foods. We started often comes with a certain taboo. Italians drink off with a nice rosé that was slightly sweet, but On September 5, 2011, I panetteria sells only bread while a learned that making mistakes wine often and almost always with dinner. It is not excessively so. It was very light in body and walked away from everything I pasticceria is a pastry shop. There only meant learning more. such an integral part of the culture that a dinner a great way to get the palate started. Next we knew and toward the security are also the daily markets that sell The American view of Italian check at JFK airport. I’ve flown everything from fresh fruit and culture is very different from without wine to an Italian is like the Fourth of tried a 2009 Chianti Classico. This was a rela - without my family before, but fish to jewelry. Having to walk what I experienced and I found July without fireworks to an American. Yet, al - tively young wine on the Sangiovese scale, but this time would be different. I place to place to buy what I many differences between the though Italians drink wine still had a good taste, with cherry being the pre - would be encountering a new needed took more time, and it two cultures over the course of often, it’s rarely in excess. dominant fruit flavor. This was followed by a country, a new language, a new taught me to budget my time bet - the semester. The elderly are It is always for the pur - 2008 Chianti Classico Reserva, which had the culture, a whole new world. ter. more outwardly respected and pose of enjoying oneself same combination of grape varieties as the Chi - The first week was surreal. My At the markets people were praised in Italy. The Italian men and appreciating the right anti Classico, but had been aged in oak for three days were filled with orientation cheerful and friendly. In the that tried to speak to women as meetings, activities, and excite - United States, it is easy to get they walked down the street combination of food and years instead of just one. This wine was ab - ment about being in Italy, but the caught up in daily life, but the rarely got a response. Usually I wine, perfected over hun - solutely superb, similar to the 2009, but with first week of classes soon ap - Italian markets gave me a new find ignoring someone to be ill dreds of years of culinary more intensity on the nose and the palate. It proached. Whether it was finding appreciation for the smaller mannered, however, here it sim - development. Gelli was still on the light-bodied side, but with fuller my way to the Duomo, ordering things. Despite having already ply means you are not interested. stressed how important flavor and stronger notes of fruit and food, asking for directions, or had one semester of Italian, the I found that Italians as a whole wine was to Italian society, slightly higher acidity. calling a cab, it wasn’t just differ - Italian language was new to me are very nice, have a smile on and to the Chianti area es - At this point we started eating. We were ent, it was complicated. I had no when I first arrived in Florence. their face, and will help you in pecially, which he told us served garlic bread, two types of cheese, fresh choice other than to adapt to my Aside from a few words here and any way possible. new living situation; everyone there, hand gestures became my My experience in Florence was was the oldest wine-pro - tomatoes, and a spinach quiche, accompanied around me was in the same posi - new language. I found it difficult much more than a sightseeing, ducing region in the by cold pressed olive oil and a thick, sweet bal - tion. to do something as simple as ask - traveling, shopping-filled extrav - world—dating back 2,500 samic vinegar that had been aged for 10 years. The Italian way of living is very ing someone for directions. aganza; it was a learning experi - years. As he spoke it was With the food came another wine, a Super Tus - different from what I was used to As time passed, I started speak - ence. It helped me mature, amazing to see how emo - can that was mostly Syrah, with some San - in the United States. If you need ing more and gesturing less. I be - become more independent and tionally invested he was in giovese. This wine was incredibly bold and shampoo and school supplies, lieve, without a doubt, the discover who I am and what I wine and the Italian cul - full-bodied. It had higher acidity than the pre - you can’t simply drive to CVS to language barrier made me a more like. I gained confidence in my - get it. In Florence, I walk every - independent person. In the self and I have grown as an indi - ture. vious two, a slight spiciness to it, as well as more where, and there is no such thing United States, when I didn’t vidual because of my semester Gelli took us through distinguishable dark fruit flavors including as CVS. For beauty products, you know something, I asked. Here, here. There are so many wonder - the Verrazano vineyards, cherry, plum, and blackberry. By the end of the can go to the profumeria , but for I figured it out on my own and ful things about my time in Flo - estate and cellars and explained the lengthy day, my senses were as content as they have ever school supplies you have to go to answered my own questions. I rence that I will never forget. process of making quality wine. I had never been, and I had achieved a new level of appre - the copy center. Most of the found that with patience I could And I will cherish these memo - known before that after the grapes are picked ciation for the age-old art of winemaking. shops only sell certain items. A work through any situation and I ries for a lifetime. 18 19 Field Studies Rome
text and photos via the Arts by Mason Rubin
A dull pain in the shin awoke me suddenly. to be the world’s most beautiful statue, and For a split second, my bleary eyes couldn’t I can’t say that I disagree. ascertain where I was, or why it was so noisy. The class then made its way to the Vatican Then I realized that my friend sitting across Museum, where the real treat of the trip from me had woken me from my slumber, awaited us. We entered the museum through as our train had arrived in Rome. It’s a good a side door just as the last museum-goers thing she did too; otherwise I would have were leaving and made our way to the Sistine ended up in Napoli a very confused and Chapel. We were to have over one hour frustrated student. alone, undisturbed in the chapel. If you have I was in Rome with my Michelangelo class ever been in the chapel during normal hours, to see a number of great pieces of art by the you know that it contains throngs of noisy prolific Renaissance people, often pushing into man, as well as famous each other and being rep - pieces by other rimanded by the guards renowned artists. Our for taking pictures. We, on first stop was to the the other hand, had 30 church of San Pietro in minutes of quiet viewing Vincoli where Pope where we could enjoy the Julius II’s tomb lies, to stunning frescoes lining see Michelangelo’s vivid the ceiling and walls. Our Moses statue. After tak - professor lectured on ing in the colossal Michelangelo’s master - statue full of inner tur - pieces: the ceiling depict - moil and emotion, we ing scenes from the Old departed for the Testament and the high Campidoglio. The im - altar covered with pressive space was de - Michelangelo’s Last Judg - signed by Michelangelo ment. It was a spectacular in 1536, commissioned experience to behold such by the Pope to impress masterpieces in peace and Charles V, who was to visit two years later. quiet. I will remember it for the rest of my After lunch we met at Saint Peter’s Square life. in the Vatican and ascended the hundreds of The next morning we were led on a private steps that took us to the top of the dome of tour of the luscious Vatican Gardens which Saint Peter’s cathedral. The unparalleled view stretched behind much of Saint Peter’s. After of Rome from the top of the dome was that we stopped for lunch followed by the breathtaking. I walked all the way around to famous Roman dessert, chocolate truffle take in the cityscape lit by the golden rays of gelato. It was the thickest and most delec - the afternoon sun. table chocolate gelato I have ever had! After After descending the endless spiral stair - stopping at the iconic architectural master - cases back to the ground level, we went in - piece of the Pantheon we had some free side to experience the awe-inspiring church time before catching the train back to Flo - and Michelangelo’s Pieta. The highly pol - rence. What a great two days seeing the ma - ished statue of the Virgin Mary holding the jestic artwork and architecture that Rome has figure of her dead son across her lap is said to offer!
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The mix of talents and cultures provided an attending SUF from Columbia University, al - eclectic atmosphere for students in which to most didn't participate at all. She skipped a mingle and meet. Palazzo Giovane sits quietly cooking class and decided at the last minute to Talented between two buildings just off of Via de' Vec - perform a song she wrote herself entitled chietti, hugged by a small bar and the Casa Long Day. "I figured it might make me stand Della Creativitá, a structure devoted to con - out if I performed my own piece. Leading up temporary art to [the performance] was awesome. I couldn't and wait!" Although the show culminated with a winner and a prize, Together the main
by Valentina Palladino photos: Shelby Hilt
Bryce Davis sits in a folding chair Even in the dim orange lights illuminating Palazzo next to a piano. His eyes scan the Giovane, a noticeable anticipation blankets his eyes. crowd of people waiting for SUF's "I'm a little nervous, I guess," Davis says. A friend annual talent show to start. has convinced him to do the talent show together, and they've only practiced a few times. He'll perform in two acts: a comedy skit and a Bollywood dance. "Dancing is out of my comfort zone, but it's fun. I goal was to bring really enjoy doing this with my friends." students of different cultures Spontaneity and friendship are two of the most im - and cul - and backgrounds together for a night of fun. portant things holding the talent show together. It ture. The stage was set in the middle of the Kaitlin Chiarelli, a junior from Gettysburg Col - started over 20 years ago as a way for SUF students palazzo, a clear tent protecting performers and lege, said she thinks this kind of event is to get to know each other. Davis is a first-semester the audience from any threat of rain. Hues of unique and important to have for all abroad freshman, attending SUF through Syracuse's Discov - light mimicked candlelight in the cool, dark programs in Florence. "It's an awesome atmos - ery Florence program. He's only known the friends night of the midweek evening. Arianna Mace, phere," Chiarelli said. "Literally everyone has a he's performing with for a month and a half, yet a junior from Syracuse University, said she was talent. This is a great place to bond with people there's a bond that can only come from studying in impressed by the sophistication of the show. over those different talents and interests." Florence together and participating in a performance like the talent show. "The palazzo with its bar has a trendy, fashion- Jackie Gaylis, a junior from Emory University, said show look. It's not like any other talent show the talent show is something she would never think I've seen." Hosted by two students from of doing if she weren’t in Florence. "It was really a SUF, the talent show featured more than 30 last-minute decision, but my friends convinced me it students performing their talents in front of a would be a great way to meet people, and they were packed crowd. Talents ranged from a cappella right." singing, to street-light art performances, to Only a year ago, SUF opened the show to students comedy sketches, to slam poetry readings, and from other study abroad programs, as well as the Uni - even ethnic dances. Each performance was versity of Florence. "We wanted to put Palazzo Gio - judged by a panel of four judges. Their votes vane on the map for all students as a place to together with the audience response would de - congregate and meet each other," said Jim Kauffman, termine which student won the grand prize of Assistant Director of Student Life at SUF, at the a free skiing trip, or a trip to Morocco. The show's opening. "The emphasis is on spending time together and getting to know each other." winner of the competition, junior Thea Briggs
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LUCCA I Giullari di Syracuse Director, Producer and Translator: Acting Workshop Eric Nicholson, SU Florence faculty by Shelby Hilt PHOTO photos: Stefania Talini Stage Manager: FEST Allison Paige Shumway, Syracuse University Special Costumes: To most visitors, the small Tuscan town of Lucca was held in the Chiesa di San Cristoforo. The pho - seems to be frozen in time, yet it comes alive during tographs were tragic yet hopeful, simple yet intense Kathleen Knippel, SU Florence faculty the various festivals hosted each year. It is said and horrific yet somehow beautiful. that you can visit the whole city in the time of one The VII Photo Agency exhibition was in Palazzo Poster, Graphic work, Publicity: day but the same cannot be said for the photography Guinigi. VII Photo Agency is a premiere photo - Valentina Palladino, Syracuse University festival that the city hosts. journalistic agency currently celebrating its tenth an - Francesco Guazzelli, SU Florence staff From November 19 to December 11, the city is niversary. As stated in the festival’s booklet, “the home to the annual Lucca Photo Fest which gives work introduces us to powerful characters, beautiful the city an extra essence of culture. The theme of geographies and some extraordinary situations.” Ushers: the 2011 festival was Villa Bottini held the work Kaytie Norman, Syracuse University Sguardi d’Oriente (Looking of Li Wei’s photography. At Larissa Polidori, Bucknell University East). Each piece in the first sight the images seemed show was somehow re - to be a product of Photoshop lated to Eastern culture but all thoughts were cor - which is especially inter - rected when reading the artist’s esting as it is not a culture statement: photographs “em - generally familiar to stu - ploying ropes, wires, metallic dents such as myself and scaffolds, and acrobatics to BRUTUTUM ZUM PUM!!! my classmates. Out of the create paradoxical situations.” eight exhibitions we were Wang Quing-Song’s The Glo - only able to view five: rious Life was also exhibited in Starting in 1909 and led by the irrepressible vision - three fine art exhibitions this space. Quing-Song’s wish ary F.T. Marinetti, the iconoclastic Italian and two photojournalistic exhibitions. for his photographic works is to “witness and emu - FUTURISTI (“Futurists”) shook up and trans - The show took place in historic palaces, houses, late the hopes and frustrations of Chinese people and churches throughout the city. Palazzo Ducale in the modern formed the arts in ways that are still being felt today. was home to the work of Kenro Izu’s Passage through reconstruction Their ideas and experiments affected all artistic Asia , Francesco Jodice’s Tokyo Babaru and Lin Tian- of socialism media, promoting speed , surprise , and Miao’s Here? or There? with Chinese dynamism . Kenro Izu’s Passage through Asia was inspired by characters.” Cast Egypt’s sacredness by exemplifying a certain warmth On show in Some Futurist proposals and statements: with a delicate nuance of Chiesa del - Ruby Ayala, Syracuse University tonality in each photo which l’Alba was Margaret (Maggie) Contompasis, SU Florence “Encourage in every way the artistic style I found to be both majestic Nobuyoshi Bryce Davis, Syracuse University of American eccentrics .” and serene. Francesco Jodice Araki’s Po - was interested in the idea that laroid fantasy Megan Donovan, SU graduate student “Perform a Beethoven symphony back - Tokyo isn’t Japan; Tokyo is an collection of Angela Dumachi, Syracuse University wards, starting from the last note,” and “condense alien spacecraft which has female nudes, Anne Hartman, University of Vermont all of Shakespeare’s plays into landed in a rice field. He flowers and food, all with an underlying theme of showcased the image with seduction. The pictures were graphic as they exploit Yassah Johnson, Syracuse University a single act.” lights, people, traffic and vi - women, wrapped in duct tape and ropes, looking in - Samir Lalvani, Gettysburg College “The Futurist Theatre will be able to brant colors. Lin Tian-Miao’s nocently into the camera. Although it is not exactly Shane Lawrie, Syracuse University Here? or There? can leave the what I would prefer for models, I would view the excite its audience, that is, make it forget the viewer with goose bumps by photographs again due to the fact that Araki uses a Kaitlyn Martin, Syracuse University monotony of daily life, by sweeping it through a exhibiting a high level of pro - mode of photography currently dying. David McLean, Syracuse University labyrinth of sensations.” duction quality making it The photographs I saw were graphic, interesting Diarra Payne, Syracuse University seem real, rather than ques - and sometimes disturbing, yet they were all quite tioning the odd character in spectacular. Photography is a medium where ideas Varinia A. Rodriguez, University of Denver Back to the Futuristi is produced and performed seemingly normal surround - are endless and with the help of modern technology, Peter Tynan, Macalester College by I Giullari di Syracuse, ings. we are able to capture life moment by moment. It Kristen Walsleben, Bucknell University and made possible by fisicofollia . Photojournalism was exhibited in the Chiesa di was in moments of great sadness, triumph, genius, San Cristoforo and Palazzo Guinigi. The World and trickery that the photographers of this exhibi - Ivan Zhivkov Syracuse University Press Photography 2011 exhibition, the world’s tion were able to take advantage of the emotions of most prestigious press photography competition, the viewers.
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photos: Francesco Guazzelli
SUF Studio Art Faculty Show
by Jennifer Morales
On November 8, SUF students, visiting professional career in the arts. All of the artists families, staff and faculty came together to cel - have had their work shown in solo and group ebrate the talent and myriad interests of SU Flo - exhibitions throughout the world. Kelsey Cioffi, rence's outstanding art faculty at the 2011 Studio an art major at Skidmore College, applauded the Art Faculty Exhibition. The exhibition, organ - event: “It was empowering to see the caliber of ized by department coordinator Swietlan N. work that these professors are capable of pro - Kraczyna and held in the Studio Art Gallery in ducing. I feel very fortunate to have the oppor - Piazzale Donatello 21, featured the works of tunity to learn from them.” SUF’s nine faculty members representing a broad range of media and techniques: Ezio Buzzegoli (water pastel on paper); Marco K. Fal - lani (wax sculpture and oil on canvas); Francesco Guazzelli (inkjet print photography); Patricia Kinsella (tapestry, cotton yarns); Kathleen Knip - pel (soft sculpture); Swietlan N. Kraczyna (mixed media and multi-plate color etching); Diane Kunzelman (painting restoration); Kirsten Stromberg (oil on canvas and mixed media); and Stefania Talini (inkjet print photog - raphy). The exhibition was of particular interest and relevance to students wishing to pursue a
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Fall 2011 award winners with Studio Art coordinator Nick Kraczyna Best In Show Prize: Kelsey Cioffi, Skidmore College On Tuesday December 13, the SUF Studio communicate their thoughts and creative re - Meredith MacLauchlan, Gettysburg College Art Department celebrated the end of the flections with the greater Italian community. semester with the Student Art Show, the lat - Awards for outstanding projects in each Best per Category: est installment of the bi-annual exhibition medium as well as a ‘Best in Show Cash Introductory Painting: Catherine Babcock, Wake Forest University and juried competition of student work. This Prize’ are juried during every exhibition by a Interm. Painting - Special Topics: Kelsey Cioffi, Skidmore College year’s show included over one hundred distinguished group of artists, curators and Sculpture: Lea Cook, Syracuse University pieces in printmaking, photography, sculp - critics active in the Florentine and interna - Drawing: Catherine Chang, Skidmore College ture, painting, drawing, Renaissance painting, tional communities. This year’s Jury con - Sketchbook: Madeline Amos, Northwestern University batik, silkscreening, and metalsmithing, high - sisted of Marco Cianchi and Arabella Printmaking: Alexandra McComas, Gettysburg College lighting the breadth and depth of creative Natalini. Marco Cianchi teaches Art History Digital Intro Photography: Alexandra Prescott, George Washington U. work by SUF students. at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and Advanced Digital Photography: Meredith MacLauchlan, Gettysburg College The SUF Studio Art Department holds a California State University. His research fo - New Approaches to Renaissance Painting: Rebecca Levitan, Emory University student exhibition at the end of every semes - cuses on the parallels between Renaissance Metalsmithing: Laura Marsolek, Syracuse University Batik: Scarlett Hoy, Loyola University, MD ter. It is a unique opportunity for students and Modern/Contemporary art. Arabella Silkscreen: Julia Superka, Gettysburg College to not only learn the important process of Natalini is a renowned art historian and cu - A painting by Kelsey Cioffi Woven Design: Adele Pedulla, Syracuse University installing and exhibiting their works, but also rator of the contemporary art museum in a chance for them to share, celebrate and Florence “EX3”.
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Studio Arts Galleria during exhibition Metalsmithing display Kelsey Cioffi, co-winner of the Sculpture Studio “best in show” award 28 29 Lectures and Symposia
Outstanding Students Awards Ceremony
Coluccio Salutati Essayists Anthony Amiano - Syracuse University Elvira Ibragimova - Syracuse University Francesca Ling - Syracuse University Kera Townshend - Gettysburg College Coluccio Salutati Honorable Mentions: Rebecca Levitan - Emory University Jane Smith - Davidson College Outstanding Option II/III Students Kaytie-Lynn Norman - Syracuse University l e z t
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p Hiu Ping (Amy) Tin - Syracuse University Outstanding Volunteers Fall 2011 Outstanding Students Sam Sirotnikov - Lehigh University On Wednesday, December 14, SU Florence Director Sasha Outstanding Lettori per un Giorno Perugini and respective program coordinators awarded those Alice Wertheimer - Tufts University students who have excelled in their commitment to academic Carolyn Entress - Santa Clara University achievement and community engagement. Karin Karpin - George Washington University
Syracuse University in Florence Graduate Symposium
Emily Theodora Ho How to Paint a Dragon: Paolo Uccello and the Creation of Saint George’s Foe
Hannah Rebecca Hartsig A Renaissance for Giraffes: Lorenzo de’ Medici’s Giraffe and its Representation in Art
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On December 2, 2011, Syracuse University’s History of Art Suzanne Marietta Myers (HOA) graduate students presented their scholarly papers The Sea Monsters of Piazza Annunziata: relating to this year’s topic entitled: Pietro Tacca’s Fountains and the Zoological Tall Tails: Representing Animals in Italian Renaissance Art Prints of the Late Renaissance
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Elena Carlini Sara Matthews-Grieco
Sara Matthews-Grieco has a chapter entitled “The Iconography of Marriage Be - Elena Carlini Carlini was recently an invited juror and Jury President of Sibiu fore Trent: Visual Culture as Social Technology” in Le leggi del matrimonio. Modelli National Architectural Competition, UASA in Cluj, Romania. She will be giving e regole dell'unione coniugale tra antico e moderno , edited by Giovanni Rossi (University a lecture about her work at the University of Washington, Department of Ar - of Verona), Rome, Viella, 2011. The premise of Matthew-Grieco’s essay is that visual communications constituted one of the more potent social tools used by chitecture in Roma presenting also the recently opened Bowling Green and park - the three major institutions of early modern Europe – the family, the state and ing in Cussignacco (UD). the church – in order to impose both behavioural norms and desirable social Images: Bowling Green and parking in Cussignacco exterior and interior. praxis. Pictorial traditions and material culture artefacts are examined in order to propose a re-reading of marriage-related imagery in the contemporary con - text.
Lawrence Davis Alick Mc Lean
Lawrence Davis, SUF Coordinator of Architecture Programs, will deliver a lec - ture at Department of Architectural Design, Form and Colour Studies, Faculty Alick McLean has been hired by the Comune di San Giovanni Valdarno to assist in the development of the town’s new museum the Museo delle Terre Nuove . The of Architecture and Fine Art, Norwegian University of Science and Technology museum will link the local history of the new town of San Giovanni Valdarno in Trondheim, Norway on December 13. The title of the lecture will be “Spare to other Florentine new towns, as well as to the larger tradition of new towns in Parts” and will explore much of his recent teaching, research and practice in the Europe during the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The museum is slated to open leftover and often forgotten spaces and buildings of post-war suburbia in North in the summer of 2012 and will include photographs and 3D interactive America and Europe. panoramic videos taken by Professor McLean.
Matteo Duni Eric Nicholson
Eric Nicholson is currently directing and preparing to perform in “O patria mia: Matteo Duni co-edited Fratelli d'Italia. Riformatori italiani nel Cinquecento (Claudiana the Risorgimento Poetry of Leopardi and the Brownings,” for a production at Editrice, 2011), a collection of nineteen biographies of the most important Ital - Villa La Pietra, NYU. He is also appearing in the production by the Compagnia ian religious reformers of the 16th century. Authored by some of the most delle Seggiole, Teatro della Pergola, and FESTA of “The Vasari Corridor: A prominent scholars in the field, the volume aims at describing the complex cul - Theatrical Journey,” with performances in December, April, and May, 2012. tural, political and religious world which fostered the reformers’ often contro - This coming March, he will join fellow SUF professors Molly Bourne, Matteo versial and seminal ideas. Duni, and Sara Matthews in panel presentations on Cuckolds in Early Modern Culture, for the annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, in Wash - ington D.C. Antonella Francini Sasha Perugini Antonella Francini recently spoke at the international conference “ Le Occasioni di EugenioMontale: 1928-1939,” held on December 9 at the Université de Genève, Switzerland. The conference brought together some of Montale’s Sasha Perugini has just published her third book Con un buco nel cuore (Italic-Pe - major critics for a discussion of recent studies on the poet’s second book. quod, 2011), the chronicle of a delicate surgical operation. From the moment Francini’s paper focused on the figure of Irma Brandeis, Montale’s inspiring the author learns she must undergo heart surgery until her return to work, the muse, reconstructing the cultural milieu between New York and Florence in the narrative navigates themes that go beyond the medical episode to explore con - 1930s. cepts like the mother-daughter relationship, the relationship with one’s body, the Francini is a contributor to the volume La Letteratura americana del 900 , recently construction of identity, fear and (inappropriate) romantic crushes. The book is published by Giulio Einaudi Editore. currently available in Italian on Amazon.it.
Richard Ingersoll Debora Spini
Richard Ingersoll recently published an article entitled “Mies van der Rohe and the Conservation of the American Landscape,” in Mies als Gärtner , Albert Kirchen - Debora Spini continues her research on civil society in globalization, the rela - gast , ed. Zurich: gta Verlag, 2011, pp 1-22. Ingersoll has also published a report tionship between religion and politics from modernity to globalization, and about Renzo Piano's controversial addition to the pilgrim church of Ronchamp poverty and citizenship. In May she participated in the international conference in eastern France, originally built to the designs of Le Corbusier. Defenders of Ecclesiology and Exclusion at the University of Dayton where she delivered a the Swiss-French master's work opposed the addition of a convent so close to paper entitled “Ecclesiology and Inclusion.” the church, but the final result is more than discreet. See: Bauwelt 43.11 "Der Disput um Ronchamp" pp 10-13.
32 33 Remembering Poesia Italiana (Taken from a class assignment for ITA 421 Patterns of Modernity in 20th c. Carol Italian Literature, Fall 2011) by Lara Roney Un a c as a su l la ri va (alla maniera di Eugenio Montale) by Larissa Polidori
Una casa sulla riva crogiola al sole. Vecchi muri sgretolati la circondano, però la sua purezza è rimasto intatto. Sussurri dei fantasmi galleggiare attraverso le finestre poiché tempo passato si aggiunge. “Ciao, cara.” Qui mi hai portato per mano, These simple words ended camminavamo lungo il ponte di legno, almost every conversation I shared il mare luccica come lustrini nella luce. with Carol Estall, our beloved Li - Mi hai detto fiabe di ieri passati; brary Coordinator who sadly passed tu non ricordi ora away in May of this year. For those lo so. who were so lucky as to have Sei perso in una tempesta che turbina known and worked with Carol in non fuggirai mai. her many years at Syracuse Univer - Il filo si aggrappa a questa immagina sity in Florence, her “ciao, cara” is sottile e fine e diventa più fragile. certainly fitting of the way she will Ho paura che non lo afferri be remembered: not just as an es - svanirà come l’aria di mare salata teemed colleague, but as a very dear che si rompe sulle pietre The VILLA ROSSA VOICE friend. The dedication and the sin - is a Syracuse University vicino a una casa sulla riva. in Florence publication . cere passion for her career that Carol brought to work every day Editorial staff helped make SU Florence’s library Director L’ e qui li bri o p r e c ari o Sa sh a Perugini an invaluable resource for genera - (alla maniera futurista italiana) tions of students and coworkers Editors by Tatiana Brito Sylvia Hetzel alike. But more importantly, we [email protected] commemorate Carol for her unfal - Jessica Dysart il ruolo di vittima cambia due volte [email protected] tering positivity, for her lively sense e nel mezzo Graphics and Layout of humor, for the way she could al - nulla Francesco Guazzelli ways be counted on for a smile (and si sta nell’equilibrio precario [email protected] more often than not, a good joke), cadendo Tribunale di Firenze and for the tenacity of spirit that senza Registro Stampa Peri - made her such an endearing part of odico No. 5854 toccare All material © Syracuse the SU Florence community. It was il University in Florence
truly a joy to have known Carol. fondo www.syr.fi.it She will be greatly missed, but al - eternamente ways fondly remembered. e per l’amore del pericolo la stabilità del passato si abolisce
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