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This book accompanies the reader for an adventurous imaginary journey from the Renaissance Urbin in Italy to the Puritan era in England. The reader can observe the process under which Castiglione¿ perfect Courtier evolves into an English gentleman. Indeed the topic of this book is the transformation of Castiglione¿s book in English literature, the amusing development by which Castiglione¿s book became a classic English volume and how Castiglione¿s perfect Courtier became a model for centuries to European nobility. The author analyzes the original Italian book, Baldassare Castiglione¿s Il libro del cortegiano and Sir Thomas Hoby¿s translation The Book of the Courtier which had a crucial role in this transformation. The topics of the second part of this volume are the pioneering conduct books in the English Renaissance, those of Roger Ascham¿s The Schoolmaster and Sir Thomas Elyot¿s The Book named the Governor. After these two volumes the author explores the development of this genre in the seventeenth century analyzing the volume of Henry Peacham The Compleat Gentleman and that of the puritanical Richard Brathwait The English Gentleman.

My work deals with Early Second Language Acquisition and it's an analysis of the English productions of eight Italian mother tongue children. The evidence-based research that was the underpinning of the study was a two-year pilot project that studied speech/language uptake in two preschool groups. This study analyzed data collection from sessions conducted in the laboratory of Inglese Dinamico in Venice, Italy. The purpose of this work is twofold: the first one is to raise awareness on the benefits of Early Second Language Acquisition and, by presenting a particular teaching methodology, to show the advantage of a bilingual approach as one of the realizations of human potential; the second one is to investigate the ways in which a group of Italian preschoolers acquire English. After a close examination of the literature on First and Second Language Acquisition and through the positive results reached with the analysis of the comprehension and production of these children, my work will propose the spread of the teaching of a Second Language at the preschool level, with the strong believe that ¿languages are supposed to be learnt by normal physical process¿ (Penfield 1959).

This work is intended as a guideline for the development of Learn_IT!, or ¿L¿italiano a portata di manö, a multimedia mobile application accessible through mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops. As a practical language learning tool, Learn_IT! will help adult migrants study Italian language not only from a pragmatical, functional and instrumental perspective but also from an integrative point of view. As this book will demonstrate, the acquisition of Italian as an L2 competences is a powerful booster for the integration of migrants and refugees into the Italian social fabric, both providing them with a better access to its labour market and endowing them with a useful vademecum that will enhance their conversation skills, setting the basis for a better and more advantageous interaction with Italian language natives and speakers.