This week, Dr. Daniel Leisawitz returned to the Villa Rossa for the first time in 25 years. Though he has travelled again to Italy since then, this was his first time back at Syracuse Florence. He spent some time as a guest in five of our Italian classes to talk about the doors that can open by studying Italian and the study abroad experience in general.
Dr. Leisawitz, who got his PhD from Yale, is currently on sabbatical from his job as Assistant Professor of Italian at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where he also serves as Director of the Italian Studies Program. He is using this semester in Florence to work on a translation of Emanuele Trevi’s novel Senza verso. Un’estate a Roma. He also talked to current Syracuse Florence students about his work on L’Orlando Furioso, the epic poem by Ludovico Ariosto.