The Uncommon Translator: Natalia Ginzburg and Ivy Compton-Burnett
Lecture by Domenico Scarpa “I would have liked to meet Ivy Compton-Burnett, an old unmarried lady who lived, I was told, in my neighbourhood. However, I was also told it was not interesting to meet with her, because all she talked about was the weather or refrigerators. But I loved her books and would have […]
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Urban Regeneration: New City, New Habitat, New Technology
Within the London Design Festival (14 to 22 September) the rendez-vous of INTERNI Magazine organized in cooperation with the Italian Cultural Institute in London is back. The theme of the talk is the fate of contemporary cities. Two international leading players in the world of architecture working on the theme of environmental quality, as Alessandro […]
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Crepapelle by Maria Cassi at The Playground Theatre
“Crepapelle” is a tale about falling in love with two cities, Paris and her home city. The relationship with the places, with the people, with the smells and colours and with the little and great follies of the everyday life of their inhabitants. The character is a mask that fits different roles, from old beggars […]
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Italian Theatre Festival 2019
After a sell-out success in 2018, the Italian Theatre Festival returns to The Coronet Theatre to celebrate some of Italy’s most distinguished writers and performers. The Festival will run on the 7th and 8th of June, taking place in the heart of London, at the Coronet Theatre in Notting Hill. PROGRAMME Friday 07 June […]
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The Massacre – Piazza Fontana 12.12.1969 – Fifty Years On
ISLG Italian Studies Library Group 2019 Annual Lecture By Professor John Foot, University of Bristol On 12th December 1969, a bomb exploded in the Banca Nazionale dell’Agricoltura headquarters building in Piazza Fontana, central Milan. It was a massacre. Sixteen people eventually lost their lives and more than ninety were injured. At around the same time, […]
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Europe and Brexit: Marco Varvello and Donald Sassoon in conversation. Moderated by Deborah Bonetti
RAI Journalist Marco Varvello and academic Donald Sassoon present their respective books: Brexit Blues, by Marco Varvello, published by Mondadori, is a collection of short stories about Great Britain at the time of Brexit, but also Europe and Italy at the time of the “Third Republic”: a former Minister who organises terror attacks, a fight […]
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Attacchi, a play by Gianluca Greco and Silvio Impegnoso
Attacchi A play by Gianluca Greco and Silvio Impegnoso. Illustrations by Fabio Ierardi Please note: event in Italian [BOOK NOW] A monologue composed of incipits from novels, put together to create the story of a single life. From classical masterpieces to more overlooked narrations, spanning different centuries and countries. The play moves across the beginning […]
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Mappillai. An Italian son-in-law in India
MAPPILLAI tells the story of European journalist Carlo Pizzati, who moves to Tamil Nadu in India for love. With wry humour, wisdom and acceptance, this memoir offers an intimate capsule of contemporary Indian history, of the associated Hinduisation and Westernisation of India, intertwined with the Indianisation of a European. After a four-day wedding celebration where […]
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La più bella del mondo – The most beautiful in the world #8
12 talks on the Italian language “The most beautiful in the world” is supposed to be a supermodel and yet in Italy the expression is more often than not used to define Italian language. Is Italian truly the most beautiful language in the world? It is commonplace, due to either italophilia or nationalism, but is […]
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Haemostasis: the Surgical, Anaesthetic and Medical Perspectives
The Italian Medical Society of Great Britain is pleased to invite you to the Scientific Symposium “Haemostasis: the Surgical, Anaesthetic and Medical Perspectives” Symposium Programme 18:00 – Registration 18:25 – 18:30 – Introduction (Mr Giuseppe Kito Fusai MS FRCS, Consultant HPB Surgeon at Royal Free Hospital – London ) Scientific session Chairpersons: Prof. Sergio […]
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