CELEBRATING 150TH YEARS OF STORIES.
It is said that once Italy was a unified country, Massimo D’Azeglio stated: “We have made Italy, now we have to make Italians”. Not too long after, Carlo Collodi has his Geppetto make Pinocchio. Franco Gallippi’s reading of Pinocchio explores the question of what goes into making Italians yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
Franco Gallippi completed his PhD thesis, Calvino: Reader of Leopardi and Galileo, at the University of Toronto in 2007. He was Assistant Professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, where he taught Italian language, literature, and cinema for four years. He is presently teaching Italian language and literature courses at the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto, and working on the manuscript for a book on Italo Calvino. His publications have appeared as chapters in books, and in academic journals such as Quaderni di Italianistica, Rivista di Studi Italiani, and Italian Canadiana.