Italian Reader and Critic
Flaminio Di Biagi, full-time professor of Italian at the Rome Center since 1989, graduated from the University of Rome with a doctorate in comparative literature, holds a Ph.D. in Italian literature from New York University and a Master of Arts in Romance Languages from the University of Washington.
He has published Sotto l'arco di Tito: le "Farfalle" di Gozzano, a book of literary criticism on the early 1900s poet Guido Gozzano, and Il cinema a Roma: guida alla storia e ai Luoghi dei cinema nella capitale, a book on the history of film production in/about the city of Rome from the late 19th century to the end of the 20th. It also contains a helpful appendix of sites in or near Rome where various films have been shot.
Dr. Di Biagi has taught Italian (language, film, and literature) in several American universities (most recently as Visiting Professor at the College of Charleston), has published articles on Italian writers and cinema, various essays on Italian-American studies, and has translated classic authors such as Conrad (Heart of Darkness, The Secret Sharer, Tales of Unrest), London (The Game), and D.H. Lawrence (Kangaroo) from English into Italian. He also edited critical editions of Herman Melville's "Billy Budd," and Guido Gozzano's "Verso la cuna del mondo: lettere dall'India."