Authors Merlonghi, Merlonghi, Tusi, and O’Connor present students, instructors, and general interest readers with a comprehensive first-year textbook for the study of the Italian language and
Italian culture. The authors have organized the main body of their text in seventeen lessons devoted to salutations, learning names, presentation of oneself, and a wide variety of other related
subjects. Franca Celli Merlonghi, Ferdinando Merlonghi, and Joseph A. Tursi are retired faculty members of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Brian Rea O’Connor is a faculty
member of Boston College. Annotation ©2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
