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ALYSON MORGAN
Professor of Italian Wines

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Alyson graduated in 1999 from the world's top Viticulture and Enology program at the University of California, Davis with degrees in both Genetics and Viticulture & Enology.
As a student, she began by specialising in the genetics of the grapevine by performing genetic research on grape resistance to the vine pest, phylloxera. She gained teaching experience as an instructor of a human genetic engineering course for pre-med students at UC Davis.
As the focus shifted from genetics, she began concentrating on her winemaking career. In the California wine region of Mendocino, she worked as an enologist for Kendall-Jackson during the 1997 and 1998 harvest seasons where she performed all winery and laboratory tasks.
In 1998, she and two others transformed a house into a winery where they fermented, aged and bottled their own Napa Valley Pinot noir.
Upon graduating, she relocated to Chianti Classico to continue work as an enologist and vineyard researcher for Kendall-Jackson at their Villa Arceno Estate in Castelnuovo Berardenga.
In 2000, she moved to the San Casciano region of Chianti Classico to work at Villa St. Andrea in order to develop a wine analysis laboratory and perform vineyard research on grape phenolic maturation.
Since January 2001, she has been working as winemaker and director of production at Azienda Uggiano located in the Florentine hills of the Chianti region.

CARLO BAGNOLI
Professor of Italian Language

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After receiving his degree in Letters from the Università degli Studi di Firenze, he began teaching Italian language and Literature to foreigners, working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and for the Cultural Centre for Foreigners at the Università degli Studi di Firenze. He also teaches at the California State University program in Florence as well as at New York University's Centro Linguistico di Ateneo.
He has conducted numerous reading conferences and hermeneutic research on various Italian authors, such as: D. Campana, D. Buzzati and T. Landolfi.

VITO PATERNOSTRO
Professor of Art History and Florentine History

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He received his degree in Letters and Philosophy from the Università degli Studi di Firenze in 1988, and since then has taught Art history and Renaissance Culture courses at Istituto Europeo. He has also Contemporary Italian History and History of Philosophy in various institutes of higher learning. His publications include an essay entitled "Truth and Freedom in the philosophy of Jules Lequier" published in the Department of Philosophy Annals of the university of Florence.

VALENTINA LEPRI
Professor of Italian for Tourism

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After completing Classical studies at Liceo Michelangiolo in Florence, Valentina went on to the Università degli studi di Firenze to study Philosophy, receiving her degree with honours in 1999. She completed her teaching specialisation at the Università degli Studi di Pisa.

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