Acknowledgements

We would like to acknowledge and thank Haverford College and Bryn Mawr College for the generous support they gave us to complete this project. Special thanks go to Terry Snyder, Michael Zarafonetis, Andrew Janco, Maria Ocando Finol, Christine Boyland, and Jennifer Spohrer for helping us with technical issues, teaching us all the tricks of the PressBooks platform, and always having an encouraging word to help us move forward with our project.

Furthermore, a warm thanks goes to our Chair and friend Roberta Ricci and our beloved colleagues Giulio Genovese, Alessandro Giammei, and Luca Zipoli for their continuous support, encouragement, and help. Above all, we are extremely grateful to our students Olivia Colace and Ava Panetto, who worked so hard to make this volume (and the Moodle option) possible and whose perspective and advice were crucial to creating an inclusive and diverse textbook. 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.