Once Upon a Time in Italy #1: the 80s. Separate Rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli
Thursday 11 June, 6.30pm Once upon a time in Italy… the 80’s: Separate rooms by Pier Vittorio Tondelli Claudia Durastanti in conversation with Jeremy Atherton Lin Chair: Jennifer Burns Reading by Chiara Goldsmith The eighties in Italy were a decade of surfaces: glossy, loud, deliberately amnesiac. Beneath them, other stories were being lived in silence. […]
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Paradiso by Michele Masneri
Wednesday 10 June, 6.30pm Paradiso by Michele Masneri The author in conversation with Antonello Guerrera Michele Masneri talks about his latest book Paradiso, recently out in the English translation by Richard Village with Foundry Editions. A darkly comic journey through ambition, illusion, and the eternal city During one of the hottest summers anyone can remember, […]
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The Italian Library #29: Vorrei trascorrere una domenica da uomo. Alba de Céspedes oggi.
Tuesday 9 June, 6.30pm The Italian Library #29 Vorrei trascorrere una domenica da uomo. Alba de Céspedes oggi. In Italian Ornella Tarantola in conversation with Olga Campofreda about Alba de Céspedes: elegant, ironic, and supremely intelligent, in her long and intense journalistic career Alba de Céspedes “made her voice heard” on women with the same […]
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In Celebration of Antonio Canova and his Cavallo Colossale
Monday 8 June, 6.30pm ICI London and Venice in Peril Fund present In Celebration of Antonio Canova and his Cavallo Colossale A talk by Barbara Guidi and Christopher Baker One of the last projects of the great Neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova (1757–1822) was a monumental gesso horse (Cavallo Colossale), commissioned as part of a planned […]
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Pompeii before Pompeii by Massimo Osanna | EVENT CANCELLED
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED Monday 8 June, 5pm at the Lecture theatre, Faculty of Classics, Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, 66, St. Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LU Pompeii before Pompeii by Massimo Osanna (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali e per il Turismo / Università degli Studi di Napoli […]
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For a fistful of dollars (Per un pugno di dollari) a film by Sergio Leone
Wednesday 3 June, 6,30pm Genres’s classics – Western 2026: For a fistful of dollars by Sergio Leone In English The Italian Cultural Institute in London is delighted to present a film series show casing some genres classic of Italian cinema. The series starts with Noir, followed by Western and finally Comedy. A celebration of the […]
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Moving Images, Moving Artisans: From Athens to Falerii. Demand, Production, and Uses of Figured Pottery in the Ager Faliscus
Monday 1 June, 5pm at the Lecture theatre, Faculty of Classics, Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies, 66, St. Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LU Moving Images, Moving Artisans: From Athens to Falerii. Demand, Production, and Uses of Figured Pottery in the Ager Faliscus. Book presentation: A. Pola, La più antica produzione ceramica falisca a figure rosse, Istituto di […]
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Future Classics . Screening the New Italian Cinema #4
ICI London and CinemaItaliaUK present Future Classics. Screening the New Italian Cinema #4 Future Classics is a new film series dedicated to Italian cinema and its contemporary classics, offering a vivid and dynamic portrait of Italy — its faces, landscapes and stories. Curated by the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Londra and CinemaItaliaUK, the programme highlights a key […]
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The Italian Library # 28. Il Dio delle salite: storia di Marco Pantani
Thursday 28 May, 6.30pm The Italian Library #28 Il Dio delle salite: storia di Marco Pantani Ornella Tarantola in conversation with Marco Pastonesi, author of Pantani era un dio In Italian Marco Pantani’s story is one of passion and compassion, of exaltation and downfall, of an Italian dream and a Romagnol tragedy, of bicycles and […]
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Una libraia a Londra, by Ornella Tarantola and Paola De Carolis
Wednesday 27 May, 6.30pm Una libraia a Londra (Cairo Edizioni) by Ornella Tarantola and Paola De Carolis The authors in conversation with Sabrina Provenzani Everything begins with a love story. Not the perfect kind, but the kind that survives contradictions. For more than 30 years, for Italians in London, the Italian Bookshop was a point […]
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