Undergraduate and graduate students in this semester’s ITALIAN 450 class took on an interesting project: translate Carlo Goldoni’s comedic play La familia dell’antiquario, or The Antiquarian’s Family, into English. Inspired by an article about the UW-Madison professor who founded the original Wisconsin Dramatic Society, which produces lesser known and foreign plays, Professor Stefania Buccini developed the course for advanced undergraduate students and native Italian graduate students. The class has spent the entire semester translating Goldoni’s play, first from Venetian dialect to modern Italian, and then from Italian to English. The English-language translation will allow Goldoni’s work to reach a larger Wisconsin audience – a great example of the Wisconsin Idea in action! Read the full article here.