Some of the folks in my department want to write thank you letters to a professor we had last quarter who was visiting from Italy. As a show of respect and appreciation for working so hard on his English, I’d like to use an appropriate Italian greeting, or at the very least the appropriate closing sentiment. What would be the appropriate way to greet an academic superior formally? If region makes any difference on etiquette, the recipient hails from Sicily.
Bump.
Gentili Professore for the greeting.
Distinti saluti for the closing.
What part of Sicily? I lived there for two years in the mid-90s.
He’s from Palermo, as far as I know. At least, that’s where his doctorate is from.
Grazie, Mr. Moto!
Wouldn’t that be Gentile?