John Paul Russo, professor of English and classics and acting chair of the Department of English in the University of Miami’s College of Arts and Sciences, and Robert Casillo, UM professor of English, have published The Italian in Modernity (University of Toronto Press). The book examines the conceptualization of Italy since the end of the Renaissance, taking in such topics as travel writing, gender, modernization and decline, economic and cultural history, national character and stereotypes, immigration, and film.
