Sylvia Sargona
Sylvia Sagona’s fascination with the Fine Arts led her to abandon her undergraduate medical studies and enroll in Honours Classics and French at the University of Melbourne.
The French Government awarded her a three year scholarship for post-graduate work in Aix-en-Provence where she gained her Maitrise-ès-Letttres in Comparative Art and Literature and qualifications in Sociology. While in France, she lectured at the Université de Provence and at the Ecole Nationale des Etrangers d’Aix -en-Provence.
After living in Italy and Spain, she returned to Melbourne to be appointed in the Department of French, Italian and Spanish Studies at the University of Melbourne where she specialized in nineteenth century French art and literature and Italian Romanticism.
Sylvia’s knowledge of French, Italian and Spanish language and society has led her to form her own cultural and historical tourism company, Travels Through Time, and she has led specialized art and literature based tours to Paris, Rome, Venice and Northern France over the past five years.She has been commissioned by French television and SBS to write a documentary on the development of the first Parisian department stores and the invention of shopping in 19th century Paris. She is also working on a documentary on Josephine and the Australian flora at Malmaison.
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