Francine Pellegrini, graduated in Foreign Languages and Literatures, specialises in teaching Italian to foreigners. She has written for Hoepli various texts dedicated to teaching Italian: with Nadia Albertini, Italiano per inglesi (2013) and Italiano per spagnoli (2011); with Chiara Caglieris, L’italiano facile (1999); with Jamila Chahi, Italiano per arabi (2013); with Victor Fedorenko, Italiano per russi (2009); with Rieko Fukae, Italiano per giapponesi (2014). Andras Gemes, a graduate in Sociology from Frankfurt and a passionate scholar of Italian culture, is a language consultant and German language teacher at several public schools.