Intellect

Since 1993 Franco Manai has been teaching Italian culture at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has written monographs on Italian writers Luigi Capuana and Giulio Angioni and various articles on Italian classical authors, such as Petrarch, Pietro Bembo, Niccolò Machiavelli and Carlo Goldoni, as well as on Italian authors of popular culture such as Loriano Macchiavelli, Andrea De Carlo and Fruttero & Lucentini.