Worksheets, handouts, tests and exercises I prepared for my classes, free to download and use in class or for study. They may be printed and adapted, with credit. The materials themselves are in Italian.
The method I use in private lessons, on a single sheet.
A four-step method for translating without guesswork: verb, subject, subordinate clauses, complements. Three worked examples from Caesar and Cicero and a sentence to try, with the solution.
Writing, text analysis, literature.
A two-part writing exercise, informative and argumentative, based on a documentary about influencers and the manosphere. At the end, a guide to coherence, cohesion and connectives.
The same exercise from the teacher’s side: a hundred-minute plan, a marking grid out of ten and a note on assessing reasoning rather than opinions.
Two compulsory questions and one optional, on Symbolism, aestheticism and Pascoli.
How to write a concise, functional, objective summary, with a worked example on one of Aesop’s fables.
The argumentative essay as a practice of respect: thesis, arguments, counter-arguments.
Exercises to train creative writing.
How Italian has changed since 1946.
What happens when a poem moves from one language to another.
Handouts and worksheets written for class, with study questions.
From Charlemagne to the Ottonians: a summary handout with in-depth sections, links to Italian literature, a lesson plan for teachers and review questions.
The second invasions, local lords and the Ottonians, with a table, glossary and study questions.
A historical and political dossier (updated April 2026): timeline, actors, international law and a brief for simulating a multilateral negotiation in class.
Handmade school materials, collected on one page.
To project in class or watch at home: they open in the browser, nothing to install. In Italian; the narrating voice is synthetic.
A narrated animation in fourteen panels: the courtly romance, the Arthurian cycle and the «Lancelot», from the cart to the Sword Bridge.
A narrated animation: the Oxford manuscript, Roncevaux between history and legend, Ganelon’s betrayal, the oliphant, the death of Roland.
An interactive timeline with five strands (Carolingians, Normans, Magyars, Saracens, Ottonians), a card for each event and an «order the events» game.
A map of Europe changing from Charlemagne’s empire to the division of Verdun, the second invasions and the Ottonian empire, with narration.
More materials are on the way: literature and history boards, presentations on the twentieth century, study-skills sheets. I publish them as they are ready.
For one-to-one help with studying there are private lessons in Latin, Italian and history. For teachers there is training on artificial intelligence.