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Suzanne Branciforte
Study in Italy, Genoa, Italy
Elvira G. Di Fabio
Harvard University
FOURTH EDITION
PARLIAMO ITALIANO!
PARLIAMO ITALIANO!
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Branciforte, Suzanne.
Parliamo italiano! / Suzanne Branciforte,Elvira G.Di Fabio. — 4th ed.
p. cm.
Italian and English.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-470-52677-4 (hardback) — ISBN 978-0-470-58498-9
1. Italian language—Textbooks for foreign speakers—English. I. Di Fabio, Elvira G.
II. Title.
PC1129.E5B73 2010
458.2'421—dc21
2010033298
Printed in the United States of America
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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.
About the Authors
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