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Michele

Rate $54
Response 3h
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Number of students Michele has taught since their arrival at Superprof
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Number of students Michele has taught since their arrival at Superprof

$54/h

1^st lesson free

Classic Literature
Comparative literature
Latin
Ancient Greek

PhD - University and Senior School qualified tutor of Latin, Ancient Greek and Italian with over 17 years of teaching experience in Italy, USA and UK.

Classic Literature
Comparative literature
Latin
Ancient Greek

Lesson location

- online

About Michele

Hello/ Ciao/ Salvete/ Χαίρετε!

My name is Michele, and I come from Florence (Italy).
I have been teaching Latin, Classical Greek and Italian language and literature since 2005. I am genuinely passionate about languages both modern and ancient. So much so, in fact, that I am currently studying Modern Greek on my own! During my time at Uni, I have attained a number of degrees and certifications. These include:

- Teaching Qualification for Secondary Schools in UK (PGCE, 2018);
- PhD in Romance Languages (Johns Hopkins University, 2016);
- MA in Classics (Johns Hopkins University, 2016);
- Laurea Specialistica in Classics (Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2010);
- Laurea Triennale in Classics (Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2008).

In addition to Classics and Italian studies, I have always nourished a deep passion for Classical Music. I have been playing violin since 1991, and have attained several certificates, such as Solfège, Complementary Piano, Harmony and Counterpoint, History of Music, Chamber Music and Orchestra.

I am a friendly and easy-going guy with a... boundless enthusiasm for learning teaching. I very much look forward to hearing from you!

About the lesson

If you are looking for a highly experienced, qualified, enthusiastic and engaging tutor, search no further! Throughout the years, I have developed a set of very effective teaching strategies, these can be communication or grammar-based, according to the student's needs. Lessons are entirely student-centred and will revolve around the student's goals and expectations.

I have been teaching Latin, Ancient Greek and Italian language and literature at Primary, Secondary and University level. I currently serve as a Classics teacher at The Glasgow Academy and have a very solid understanding of both the Scottish and the English exam system.

I have extensive experience as a researcher. During my PhD, I have presented in several conferences and have published six Academic peer-reviewed articles and two Encyclopaedia entries.* Such working experience places me in an excellent position to provide valuable advice to students working on their school as well as Post-Graduate dissertations.

Our lessons are going to be fun, engaging and highly effective: my hourly rate also includes the marking of any tasks assigned for homework. Moreover, at the end of each session, you will receive a brief summary of what we have covered during the lesson and some notes on how to further improve.

Moreover, I have successfully completed Latin conversation and composition courses run by the Schola Latina and the Istituto Italiano di Studi Classici. These allow me to teach Latin as a living language, through a much interactive communication-based method.

In brief, this is what I can offer:

- Grammar revision for both Latin and Greek;
- Translation techniques from both Latin and Greek;
- Latin Prose composition;
- Conversational Latin;
- Exam preparation (from GCSE/ Advanced Higher to Honours level);
- Italian language and literature (with a special focus on Dante, Renaissance literature and Theatre studies).

* List of Academic publications:
1) “La traduzione d'autore come genere letterario: nascita, struttura e fortuna del De interpretatione recta di Leonardo Bruni”. Forum Italicum, a Journal of Italian Studies, 51 (1) (2017), pp. 133 – 147. (Language: Italian, words: ca. 7600).
2) “Il Don Giovanni Tenorio di Carlo Goldoni. Alle origini di un mito moderno”. ISSA, 29 (2) (2016), pp. 1 – 26. (Language: Italian, words: ca. 8900).
3) “Renaissance Philology”. Encyclopaedia of Renaissance Philosophy (2017). (Language: English, words: ca. 5200).
4) “Agostino Steuco and the Debate on the Donation of Constantine”. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 13 (2018), pp. 177 – 192. (Language: English, words: ca. 7800).
5) “Per Un Dante Latino. The Latin Translation of the Divine Comedy by Padre Carlo D'Aquino and Francesco Testa”. Italian Quarterly, 51 (2018), pp. 56 – 70. (Language: English, words: ca. 5700).
6) “The Chorus as a downgraded protagonist. Some remarks on Seneca's employment of the choral odes in the Agamemnon”. The Rosetta Journal, 22. (2018), pp. 1 – 17. (Language: English, words: ca. 6400).
7) “From Commedia to Comoedia. The Latin Translations of the Divine Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Italy”. Linguistica e Letteratura (2018), pp. 141 – 169. (Language: English, words: ca. 10700)
8) “Catholic Reformation”. Encyclopaedia of Renaissance Philosophy (2021). (Language: English, words: ca. 4200).

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PhD - University and Senior School qualified tutor of Latin, Ancient Greek and Italian with over 17 years of teaching experience in Italy, USA and UK.

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