Dante Alighieri Society Fund
In 2004, Maria Constant, good friend of the Department, established an endowment to provide financial assistance for the travel or tuition expenses of Italian majors and / or MA candidates in the Italian program of the Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures.
The endowment was given in honor of Tommaso Sbarra, long-time President of the Pittsburgh Chapter of the Dante Alighieri Society. Interest generated by the fund supports students who are engaged in research projects in Italy or enrolled in departmentally-approved study programs in Italy.
We invite donors to consider adding to the Dante Alighieri Society Student Resource Fund, which has grown by over 10% since its initial creation
The Nicholas C. Tucci and Sunda Cornetti Fund
The Nicholas C. Tucci Fund was established in 1984 for the purpose of funding an annual Tucci Lecture; later, Sunda Cornetti added to that fund. Over the past 35 years, the Department of French and Italian has honored this generous bequest by hosting some of the most distinguished scholars, writers, filmmakers, and historians working in the field of Italian Studies.
| 1985 | Elissa Weaver, Sister Beatrice Del Sera and the Tuscan Convent Theater Tradition | JPG |
| 1987 | Sergio Zatti, The Quest of Orlando | JPG |
| 1988 | Aldo Scaglione, Courtiers, Courtliness, and Chivalry in Medieval and Renaissance Life and Letters | JPG |
| 1989 | Alfonso Procaccini, Neorealism and Jovine: from Novel to Narrative | JPG |
| 1990 | Peter Bondanella, Federico Fellini’s Artistic Origins: Italian Popular Culture and Neorealist Scriptwriting | JPG |
| 1991 | Victoria Kirkham, Dante, the Book Glutton, or Food for Thought from Italian Writers | JPG |
| 1992 | Albert Mancini, Writing the Self in the Late Renaissance | JPG |
| 1994 | Rebecca West, Gianni Celati’s La strada provinciale delle anime | JPG |
| 1995 | Eduardo Saccone, Action in the Decameron | JPG |
| 1996 | Robert Durling, Christ in Dante’s Hell | JPG |
| 1997 | Robert Pinsky, A New Translation of Dante’s Inferno | JPG |
| 1999 | Peter Argentine, Documenting Italian-American Lives | JPG |
| 2001 | Sante Matteo, Dido’s or Hannibal’s Children? The African Presence in Italy | JPG |
| 2002 | Peg Boyers, An Evening with Natalia Ginzburg | JPG |
| 2003 | Rudolph Vecoli, To Be or Not to Be…Italian-American | |
| 2005 | Lawrence Venuti, Translating Humor: Equivalence, Compensation, Discourse | JPG |
| 2006 | Catherine Sama, On Canvas and on the Page: Women Shaping Culture in 18th-Century Venice | JPG |
| 2007 | Joseph Farrell, The Performer and the Writer in Italian Theater | JPG |
| 2008 | Ellen Nerenberg, Murder, Real and Represented: The 'Caso Cogne' and Contemporary Italian Narrative | |
| 2009 | Lawrence Rhu, Shakespeare Italianate: Skeptical Crises in Three Plays of Shakespeare | JPG |
| 2010 | Theodore J. Cachey, Cartographic Dante | JPG |
| 2012 | Joseph Luzzi, Heirs of a Dark Wood: The Principles and Poetics of Dante's Reception | |
| 2013 | Michael Sherberg, A Chick Takes Flight: Reflections on Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio | |
| 2015 | Rebecca West, Valentino’s Vicissitudes of Identity | JPG |
| 2016 | Karla Mallette, Writ on Water: Poetry on Paper in Medieval Italy | JPG |
| 2017 | Jane Tylus, Saying Goodbye in the Renaissance | JPG |
| 2018 | Stefano Muneroni, Immigration and Italian National Identity in the Plays of Gianni Clementi | JPG |
| 2022 | Dennis Looney, Dante for Pittsburgh | JPG |
| 2022 | Clorinda Donato, ‘He takes his followers beyond the limits of the known’: Germaine de Staël and the European Reception of Carlo Gozzi’s Comic Supernatural in Corinne, or Italy | JPG |
| 2023 | Sherry Roush, Romancing the Mediterranean: Away From Home in 16th-Century Italian Novels | JPG |
| 2025 | Loredana Polezzi, Between Shame and Desire: Mediating the Italian American Experience across the Atlantic | JPG |
