Cotto e mangiato. Corso di Italiano multiculturale – Volume II derivates from Voci: Corso elementare di lingua e culture italiane – Volume II, a free and open platform that was designed by Daria Bozzato and Massimiliano Cirulli (in collaboration with students Olivia Colace and Ava Panetto) and published on April 23, 2023. Voci served as the official textbook of the Department of Transnational Italian Studies for two academic years (AY 2022-23 and 2023-24), but it is no longer used at Bryn Mawr and Haverford Colleges. Cotto e mangiato is an evolution of that first project according to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC-BY-NC).

We would like to acknowledge and thank the following: Bozzato and Cirulli for their work; Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College for the generous support; Patricia Guardiola, Anna Lacy, and Norm Medeiros for handling the transition from Voci to Cotto e mangiato during the long and exciting summer of 2024, for teaching us about the PressBooks platform, and for helping us to move forward in many ways.

Furthermore, we are extremely grateful to our former students Ava Panetto and Olivia Colace, who worked so hard to make the first volume (and the Moodle option) possible and whose perspective and advice were crucial to creating an inclusive and diverse textbook. Grazie!

Last but not least, grazie di cuore to Lillian Belzer, Sofia Cirone, Julia Knihs, Lina Marsella, Siena Martin, Ava Panetto, Julia Smith, Eleanor Taylor, and Carrie Zhang for their contribution and hard work translating Gianni Rodari’s fable “Il paese con l’esse davanti,” which is published in English in the culture section II of Unit 2.

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