Specialised Italian for Renaissance Research (Beginners and Intermediate) & Advanced Renaissance Italian 2024-2025

The Warburg Institute's Italian language provision is designed to help students gain, increase or improve access to historical scholarship on the Renaissance and primary textual sources for the period. 

The beginner class provides a grounding in fundamental Italian grammar and vocabulary, developing students' reading and translation skills, and introducing them to relevant specialised language through Italian language scholarship. The intermediate class covers similar ground over a shorter period, before moving on to focus on the reading and translation of modernised Renaissance texts. The advanced class will consolidate students' understanding of the grammar and vocabulary of Renaissance Italian, with a focus on translating authentic source material into English. 

If you are unsure of your level of proficiency in Italian, you are advised to complete and return a language level placement test before booking a place. Click here to download the test.

These courses do not award CATS credits, but students at each level will be able to take a mock exam and two assessments, and receive feedback, in late spring or early summer 2025, dates tbc. The assessments will be taken online at home and not under "exam conditions".

Registration and payment: 

• Standard rate: £525
• External students / unwaged: £425 
• SAS students, staff & fellows / LAHP students: £325 
• Warburg staff and fellows: £275 
• Warburg PhD students: £225

Specialised Italian Beginners:
Weekly: Mondays, 30 September - 2 December 2024 (excluding 28 October), and 13 January – 24 March 2025 (excluding 17 February)
09:00-11:00 
Tutor: Dr Matthew Coneys 
Venue: ONLINE

Specialised Italian Intermediate:
Weekly: Mondays, 30 September - 2 December 2024 (excluding 28 October), and 13 January – 24 March 2025 (excluding 17 February)
11:30-13:30 
Tutor: Dr Matthew Coneys 
Venue: ONLINE


Renaissance Italian (Advanced): 
Weekly: Mondays, 30 September - 2 December 2024 (excluding 28 October), and 13 January – 24 March 2025 (excluding 17 February)
15:30-17:00
Tutor: Dr Matthew Coneys 
Venue: ONLINE

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image: detail from Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting, by Artemisia Gentileschi, 1638-1639: Royal Collection, UK