The Italian program at Bard offers an Intensive language course for which students earn 8 credits, with the possibility of 4 additional credits upon completion of the month of study in Italy. The students from the fall 2002 Intensive course spent a month in Venice. Those enrolled in the fall 2003 course will go to Florence.

Bard in Venice, January 2003

In January 2003, students from Nina Cannizzaro's intensive class went to VENICE for four weeks and followed courses at the Istituto Venezia . The students behaved stellarly, making both the Venetians and the professoressa very happy. Italians frequently complimented the students on how well they spoke, while the instructors from the Istituto were impressed with the students' energy and ability to follow lectures in Italian for hours at a time.

The classroom at the Istituto Venezia .

Calliope, Adrianna, Jesse, Carolina, and Luciano outside the Instituto
in campo santa Margherita, the most popular student zone in Venice.

Calliope and Leon loved studying Italian so much they stayed in Italy for another semester. Leon continued classes at the Instituto and completed an independent study on Dante's Inferno.

 

While in Venice, students kept a daily diary of their experiences (in Italian, ovviamente).
See student journals.

 

Quotidian encounters in Campo San Margherita and beyond

Students sitting on the sidewalk as a gondola passes.

Piazza San Marco from water

church from the water

Walking to school

Venice in the twilight

Two traghetti passing by in the Grand Canal

Gondolas in the early evening

Among the cities students visited were Bologna, Florence and nearby Verona, home of the original Giulietta Cappelletti, whose tryst family rival Romeo Montecchi was made famous by a brilliant English playwright who learned of them from a novella by Giovanni Bandello), as well as Dante Alighieri's great patron, Can Grande della Scala. Verona is also the home of last year's language tutor (meno famoso), Giorgio Alberti. The Veronese say it brings good luck to touch the bronze statue of the heroine. The courtyard walls underneath the balcony are covered in graffiti bearing the names of lovers. Click here for video clips of our trip to Verona.

Click here for Prof. Joseph Luzzi's photo album from the January 2004 trip to Florence.

La Bocca della verità in Verona

Rami doing what he does best. See more of his photogrpahy at: http://www.ramynagy.com/artwork

Students also spent a weekend in Florence. Here are two of the tre corone.

 

View of the Ponte Vecchio and Vasari corridor from the Galleria degli Uffizi.

Jesse [aka Oscar], Wanda, and Jenniffer. Click below to hear two Italian songs written and performed by Jesse (with back-up vocals by Michele).

Jesse-Oscar's songs:
" Uomo Misterioso": Quicktime (492kb) | Real Audio (676kb) | Real Audio (streaming 4kb) | MP3 (2.5Mb)
"Ragazza pazza": Quicktime (656kb) | Real Audio (900kb) | Real Audio (streaming 4kb) | MP3 (3.4Mb)

Alicia, Jenniffer, and Kamaria along the Arno River.

More pictures from Verona to be posted soon!

 

Many thanks to Adriana, Daria, Jared, Jenniffer, Leon, Marisa, Ramy, and Savannah for permission to use their pictures and journals on this site.