NEW LITERATURE FROM EUROPE
Festival November 16NYPL, S. A. Schwarzman Bldg S. Court Auditorium 42nd St. & Fifth Ave., New York, NY3:45pm: The Sins of the Father Readings with Erri De Luca, György Dragomán joined in discussion by Witold Szablowski and Daniela Zeca-Buzura. The legacy of the Second World War and the many civil wars that it overshadowed continues […]
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TRIBUTE TO VERDI
Exhibition opening and concert. The Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, over the centuries, was able to bring together internationally renowned set and costume designers, whose works form a gigantic iconographic heritage through artistic and highly relevant documents. The exhibition, by way of a collection of valuable costumes, models, and original sketches from the early twentieth century […]
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N.I.C.E. ITALIAN CINEMA
Film Festival Round Table and short video presentation Presentation of the 23rd N.I.C.E. New Italian Cinema Events with the participation of Viviana del Bianco, Alba Rorhwacher, and Gloria Reuben (tbc). Directed by Viviana del Bianco and Grazia Santini, The series of eight new Italian films by debuting directors will premiere in New York City on […]
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TRIBUTE TO VERDI
Carlo Colla & Sons Marionette Company’s ICI intends to pay homage to the operatic genius of Giuseppe Verdi on the bicentennial of his birth hosting a viewing of excerpted videos of some of Verdi’s operas from the Colla Company’s repertory, along with a live marionette performance to the accompaniment of selected arias. The Colla family […]
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OPERETTE MORALI BY GIACOMO LEOPARDI
Theatrical production directed by Mario Martone On the occasion of the Year of the Italian Culture in United States, and of the publication of the forthcoming English translation of Leopardi’s Zibaldone, the Teatro Stabile of Torino presents a performance of the “Operette Morali”, with Italian subtitles. This theatrical production opened the celebrations for the 150th […]
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TERRITORIAL INEQUALITIES IN ITALY:WHY IS THE SOUTH LAGGING BEHIND?
Lecture by Carlo Trigilia (Minister of Territorial Cohesion) Trigilia was born in Siracuse on 18 June 1951. He graduated from the University of Florence with a degree in sociology in 1974. Trigilia taught at universities of Palermo, Trento and Harvard He is professor of economic sociology at the University of Florence He is chair of […]
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FRANCIS OF ASSISI: A NEW BIOGRAPHY
Winner of Flaiano Prize 2013 Lecture by Fr. Augustine Thompson, OP “Francis of Assisi. A New Biography” is a recent and sound biography dedicated to one of the most venerated and beloved saints of the Catholic tradition in Italy and worldwide. Fr. Augustine Thompson, a Dominican scholar and author of the book, researched the historical […]
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BALLA IS BACK -ALL DAY VIEWING
Casa Italiana invites art scholars and enthusiasts to a landmark viewing of an important and long-forgotten Futurist work by Giacomo Balla, Penetrazioni dinamiche d’automobile (1912-13). Last on view in the United States during the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, the iconic work of art plays a fundamental role in Balla’s dynamic contribution to […]
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FORMA ITALIANA
Round table on Italian contemporary dance in New York Discussion with some well-known Italian contemporary dancers based in NY, and screening of a short movie on dance directed by Marco Castaldi e Pietro Gianpietro, produced by Uncut Productions and Opificio under the artistic direction of Diana Florindi, choreography by Enzo Celli, original soundtrack by Julien […]
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JOHN FLORIO-A WORLD OF WORDES
Lecture by prof. Hermann Halller A Worlde of Wordes, the first-ever comprehensive Italian-English dictionary, waspublished in 1598 by John Florio. one of the most prominent linguists and educators in Elizabethan England, Florio was greatly responsible for the spreading of italian letters and culture throughout educated English society. Especially important was Florio’s dictionary, which – thanks […]
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