What is special about intercultural learning in Italian lessons? The fact that students are learning a language that essentially pertains to a single country, whose society has a homogeneous cognitive basis. Tiberio Snaidero analyzes teaching materials and school regulations, offers innovative practical teaching suggestions, and ultimately presents a framework for intercultural, communicative, and multilingual learning in Italian classes at the upper secondary level. He defines principles and criteria for selecting appropriate content and designs competence-oriented learning tasks, with the main goal of promoting intercultural communicative competence. The result is practice-tested subject didactics, as desired by Italian teachers.