This page intentionally left blank Suzanne Branciforte Study in Italy, Genoa, Italy Elvira G. Di Fabio Harvard University FOURTH EDITION PARLIAMO ITALIANO! PARLIAMO ITALIANO! John Wiley & Sons, Inc. fmse.qxd 10/18/10 8:58 PM Page i Vice President and Executive Publisher Jay O’Callaghan Director,World Languages Magali Iglesias Project Editor Barbara Lyons Assistant Editor Lisha Perez Associate Director of Marketing Jeffrey Rucker Marketing Manager Tiziana Aime Market Specialist Elena Casillas Senior Production Editor William A. Murray Photo Manager Hilary Newman Senior Media Editor Lynn Pearlman Media Project Manager Margarita Valdez Interior Design Nancy Field/Norm Christiansen Cover Design Harold Burch This book was set in 11/13 Bembo by PreMedia Global and printed and bound by Quad/Graphics. 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PC1129.E5B73 2010 458.2'421—dc21 2010033298 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 fmse.qxd 10/18/10 8:58 PM Page ii iii Suzanne Branciforte was born and raised on Long Island, New York. She completed her B.A. in History & Literature at Harvard University. Recipient of a Rotary Foundation Scholarship, she attended the University of Genoa (Genoa, Italy). She subsequently completed her M.A. and Ph.D. in Italian Literature at UCLA. She was a Fulbright Scholar in Florence, Italy. Her teaching experience includes positions at Holy Cross College (Worcester, MA), the University of Michigan and Stanford University programs in Florence, Italy, and at the University for Foreigners in Siena. For the past ten years, she has been teaching Methods of Teaching Ital- ian to Foreigners in a Masters program at the University of Genoa. In 2000, she founded Consortium Educational Consulting in Genoa, Italy, which became Study in Italy in 2009 (www.studyinitaly.it). Located in the heart of Genoa’s beautiful historical center, Study in Italy offers a full range of language courses and study abroad experiences. Her research and scholarly writing focus on Italian American cultural identity, the experience of Italian emigration, the Italian Renaissance, the narrative of World War II in Italy, and women’s literature. She has published numerous articles on these subjects. An experienced translator of prose and poetry, her translation of Renata Viganò’s collection of short stories, Partisan Wedding (1999) was favorably reviewed in the NY Times. Her translation into Italian of an American short story in the volume Zoetrope:All-Story (Mondadori, 2001, introduction by Francis Ford Coppola) was cited in La Repubblica newspaper’s review of the volume. Branciforte has also published a textbook for learning Italian in Italy for middle school students (Sì, lo so!, Juvenilia Editore, 2004). A cultural and linguistic mediator, Branciforte was the interpreter for the Mayor of Genoa at the G8 Meeting held in that city in 2001.Among her numerous engagements as an interpreter and translator, she has translated and interpreted for Nobel Prize winners Wole Soyinka,Amartya Sen, and Joseph Stieglitz. Over the past 20 years, she has lived between the U.S. and Italy. She currently makes her home with her son Max on the Italian Riviera, in Camogli. Elvira G. Di Fabio has over 25 years of experience in the field of language pedagogy. She holds a B.A. in Russian from Boston University, an M.A. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Boston College, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Italian from Harvard University. She has been the director of Italian language instruction at Harvard University since 1990 and is responsible for training and mentoring teaching fellows and teaching assistants. 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English. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 97 8-0 -4 7 0-5 267 7-4 (hardback) — ISBN 97 8-0 -4 7 0-5 849 8-9 1. Italian language—Textbooks for foreign speakers—English. I. Di Fabio, Elvira G. II. Title. PC1129.E5B73. representative. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Branciforte, Suzanne. Parliamo italiano! / Suzanne Branciforte,Elvira G.Di Fabio. — 4th ed. p. cm. Italian and English. Includes bibliographical. Branciforte Study in Italy, Genoa, Italy Elvira G. Di Fabio Harvard University FOURTH EDITION PARLIAMO ITALIANO! PARLIAMO ITALIANO! John Wiley & Sons, Inc. fmse.qxd 10/18/10 8:58 PM Page i