Antonio Tilli

Languages

Italian

Why study Italian?

Undergraduate courses

Italian language, translation and interpreting all levels.
Grammar lecture (Balp 1, Babe 1).
Italian language (Uniwide1)

Research expertise

Language variation and change (particularly at the level of phonetics and phonology and with relevance to Opera)
Italian Opera (especially early works)
Italian philology (accents and dialect acquisition)
Usage-based phonetics/phonology
The teaching of grammar and pronunciation
Vowel/colour/register perception of poetic texts 
Folk customs of Italy and contemporary paganism.
The literature of united Italy (1870- 1910): classicism, naturalism and verismo.

Publications

• Books (authored/edited/special issues)

  Tilli (2006). Italiani all’opera. A night at the opera, L’italiano europeo.

  Tilli (2006). Lina Pietravalle e gli epigoni del Verismo. Orizzonti. Roma.

  Tilli (2007). Tra un fiore colto e l’altro donato (in collaboration) Aletti. Rom.

  Tilli (2008). La voce del silenzio. Aletti. Roma.

  Tilli (2009). Alcina d’Ariosto à Haendel. Les letrres romanes. University of Groningen.

  "Italiani all'opera" review of La Cenerentola by Rossini in "L'italiano europeo" 2005

  "Lina Pietravalle e gli epigoni del verismo" in Orizzonti letterari no. 31 2007

  "Tra un fiore colto e un altro donato" anthology of contemporary poets published by Aletti 2007