Italian Through Myth and Art

This four-week course offers a unique way to improve your Italian while exploring classical mythology and Italian visual art. Designed for robust lower-intermediate to upper-intermediate learners, it focuses on both painting and sculpture, with works by artists such as Caravaggio, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Giulio Romano, and Guido Reni.

Lessons will be student-centred and engaging, with playful, creative activities that support vocabulary building, speaking confidence, and cultural insight - all through the timeless stories of myth reimagined by Italian masters.

About the Tutor

Federica Ferrieri was born in Venice. She is a language teacher, a lexicographer, an editor and a translator.

She’s also the Honorary Consul of Italy in Northern Ireland, a member of the Consular Association (CANI), and she organises many events in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Edinburgh to promote the Italian language and culture in and around Belfast.

Before and during her PhD studies in Modern Greek, she lived in Amsterdam, Crete and Athens, and spent time in London.

She's lived in Belfast for more than seven years, where she currently teaches Italian, Latin and Greek at Queen's University, the Crescent Arts Centre and in her own office in the University area.

Languages (ancient and modern) are her passion, and the theory and practice of teaching them in a creative way is something she enormously enjoys.