Book launch: From the generation to the individual: a portrait of Pier Vittorio Tondelli, by Olga Campofreda
Over just one decade, the bestselling author Pier Vittorio Tondelli witnessed through his novels and his articles the many faces of Italian society, moving from the countercultural Seventies through the years of the mass culture. Translated in French and English, very much loved among the youth, he died of AIDS on the 16th of December […]
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MARCELLO – Italian Film Festival
The first Film Festival dedicated to Italian cinema in the city of Birmingham, home to the second largest Italian community in the UK. Family, comedy, gender and life outside geographical boundaries are the main themes of the festival, which aims at being not only a point of view on cinema, but also a meeting place: […]
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Dante 1321-2021. A Man for All Seasons
A series of seminars to mark the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death Presented by Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute), Tabitha Tuckett (UCL) and John Took (UCL) The aim of this series is to explore some of the leading ideas of Dante’s work and their continuing significance to us. The audience will be introduced to a […]
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Envisioning borders: thinking across border spaces with and through comics. With Juliet Fall & Giada Peterle
What is there in (and beyond) a map? What do we talk about when we talk of borders? How do we define territories? Google maps and maps of wonderlands. Cartography and strategies of war. Mapping ideologies and pandemics, continents, countries and counties, languages and races. Never ending fights over borders and identities. Maps of perceptions […]
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Building New Bridges. Katia Pizzi is Director of the Italian Institute of Culture in London and 2021 is a year of Dante celebrations and many more.
ICI London Director Katia Pizzi has been interviewed by Alain Elkann: she talks about the promotion of Italian Culture and language at the time of Coronavirus, how to adapt and at the same time reach new audiences, online events and new collaborations, future events and Brexit. Read the complete interview, in English, on Alain Elkann’s […]
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Audiolibro “Dalla selva oscura al Paradiso. Un percorso nella Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri in trentatré lingue”
An audiobook, produced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation on the occasion of Dante’s centenary celebrations, presents select passages from the poem in thirty-three different languages. Seven hundred years after Dante’s death, the audiobook Dalla selva oscura al Paradiso (From the Dark Forest to Paradise) leads listeners on a guided tour through […]
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Renaissance Grace in Dialogue
Read the contributions from the book launch The Grace of the Italian Renaissance by Ita Mac Carthy, hosted by ICI London on 24 November last, with texts by the author, Patricia Emison, Paolo D’Angelo, Martin McLaughlin and Brian Cummings. Read HERE
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LEONETTA CECCHI PIERACCINI (1882-1977) – EXTRACTS FROM HER NOTEBOOKS
In the following weeks, we will publish some unedited extracts, in Italian, from the personal notebooks of painter Leonetta Cecchi Pieraccini. The student of one of the leading artists of the Macchiaioli group in Florence, Giovanni Fattori, Leonetta moved to Rome in 1910 when she married literary critic Emilio Cecchi. Emilio and Leonetta’s house became […]
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Raphael Then and Now #5
Presentation of the book Raphael: Drawing and Eloquence, edited by Ben Thomas and Catherine Whistler (Accademia Raffaello – Urbino 2020) Ben Thomas (University of Kent) and Catherine Whistler (Ashmolean Museum) in conversation with Angelamaria Aceto (Ashmolean Museum), Francesco P. Di Teodoro (Polytechnic of Turin), David Love (independent scholar), Ita MacCarthy (University of Durham), Marzia Faietti […]
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Short Film Day – 2020
The Italian Short Film Center presents the Short Film Day, a celebration of the short movie form in the shortest day of the year. ICI London will present a programme of six the best contemporary Italian short productions, offering a rare opportunity to watch movies usually confined to the festival circuit. Watch online on […]
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