Here’s a peek inside a classroom where Inga Dubay is guest-teaching calligraphy — the art of beautiful writing. Getty-Dubay Italic Calligraphy: for School & Home is a workbook that helps your class connect with centuries of cultural history, though language, pen and ink! Unlike handwriting, calligraphy is more contemplative, formal & expressive. Italic handwriting becomes italic calligraphy when you write with the edged pen, as this classroom of 4th graders is doing.