Alfred Crudale is a lecturer of Italian at Bridgewater State University. He graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Ph.D. in Medieval Italian Literature. The title of his dissertation is “Love and Civitas: Dante’s Ethical Journey in the Vita Nuova”. His essay entitled “Versi d’Amore e Prose di Romanzi: Are the Poets of the Dolce Stil Nuovo Still Relevant?” was published in the International Journal of the Humanities, and his latest essay, “Canzone…t’ho allevato per figliuola d’Amore: Three Songs of Love in Dante’s Vita Nuova,” was recently published in the Proceedings of the Dante and Music Conference. He is presently working on a book project, which examines the history of Italian language newspapers and radio programs in Rhode Island.
