With Fabio Finotti, the new Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of New York, we continue our series of interviews with Directors of Italian Cultural Institutes for the ‘Spotlight on’ column on italiana.esteri.it.

Fabio Finotti studied at the Scuola Normale in Pisa, and is Professor Emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, where he held the Mariano DiVito Chair and was Director of the Center for Italian Studies. His latest books include: ‘Italia: L’invenzione della patria‘, Milan, Bompiani.