Insieme: An Intermediate Italian Course (Student Edition)

Insieme! is a content and communication-based interactive text designed for intermediate students of Italian. It combines a streamlined grammar review with readings varying from authentic materials, Italian newspapers and magazines, to short literary pieces and author written texts. Insieme is a content oriented text that deals in a stimulating and lively way with current problems and issues in Italian society. Insieme is a learner friendly text that effectively emphasizes all four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The pedagogical basis of the book is an interactive, communicative approach to learning Italian.

Claudio Mazzola, a native of Milan, received his Laurea from the University of Milan and his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, Seattle. He has taught in major universities and colleges such as The University of Michigan, Vassar College and The College of the Holy Cross. Presently he is Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Washington where he teaches Modern and Contemporary Italian Literature and Italian Cinema. He is the author of several textbooks, including Insieme (McGraw-Hill) and Racconti del Novecento, as well as a number of articles, primarily on contemporary Italian cinema.

Romana Habekovic is Lecturer-Coordinator of Italian at the University of Michigan, where she received her Ph.D. in Italian, specializing in twentieth-century Italian literature. She is author of Tommaso Landolfi’s Grotesque Images and numerous articles in the areas of Italian literature and film. She is an experienced instructor and has been teaching Italian at the university level since 1972.