Dante 1481: the Comedia, illustrated by Botticelli by UCL Special Collections
A unique online event uniting copies of the Florence 1481 edition from libraries in the UK, USA and Italy The 1481 edition of Dante’s La Comedia was printed in Florence by Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus. Produced in the first decades of new printing technology in Europe, this was also the first edition to emerge from the […]
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Italian Fascism – 100 Years on: “Photographing Mussolini: The Making of a Political Icon” (Palgrave, 2020), by Alessandra Antola Swan
A new series of talks organised by ICI London and ASMI It was the world’s first fascist movement and would have a lasting and ongoing impact in political and social life in many regions of the world. To discuss its meaning and consequences, the Italian Cultural Institute will host a series of conversations […]
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Italy and the Sea: Imperium or Emporium?
A conversation with Valerie McGuire (University of St. Andrews), author of Italy’s Sea: Empire and Nation in the Mediterranean, 1895-1945 (Liverpool UP, 2020) and Claudio Fogu (University of California, Santa Barbara), author of The Fishing Net and the Spider Web: Mediterranean Imaginaries and the Making of Italians (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) . Chaired by Fernanda Gallo […]
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Cinema Made in Italy 2021 (16 – 29 April)
CINEMA MADE IN ITALY 2021 returns this year with a new digital edition, bringing cutting edge Italian cinema to a national audience for the first time, on the curated streaming service MUBI. From 16 – 29 April film fans will once more have the unique opportunity to take in a diverse array of the best recent […]
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Cinema Made in Italy 2021 (16 – 29 April) – Interviews
On our Vimeo Channel Adrian Wootton (Film London) interviews with actors and directors. Actor Pierfrancesco Favino, director Daniele Luchetti, director Giorgio Diritti, directors Gianluca De Serio, Massimiliano De Serio, director Fabrizio Laurenti, director Mauro Mancini, director Francesco Bruni, director Nicolangelo Gelormi, director and actor Pietro Castellitto. Watch HERE
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Italian Fascism – 100 Years on: The Perfect Fascist, Victoria De Grazia in conversation with John Foot
A new series of talks organised by ICI London and ASMI It was the world’s first fascist movement and would have a lasting and ongoing impact in political and social life in many regions of the world. To discuss its meaning and consequences, the Italian Cultural Institute will host a series of conversations and […]
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Giudei, by Gaia Servadio (Bompiani)
Monday 12 April, 6pmGiudei, by Gaia Servadio (Bompiani)The author in conversation with Donald Sassoon and Ian ThomsonIntroduced by Katia Pizzi Acclaimed author Gaia Servadio revisits the last century through the lives of two very different Jewish families, the Levi and the Foa’. February 1903: Zaccaria and Samuele Levi, cousins and friends, wander around Tuscany, near […]
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Il Circolo di Lettura – Serie “In Prima Persona”, 2021: Città sommersa di Marta Barone
ATTENZIONE! Date le circostanze eccezionali che stiamo attraversando a causa della pandemia dovuta al COVID 19, per motivi di sicurezza, l’incontro non avrà luogo presso la Biblioteca del nostro Istituto, ma sarà gestito online, tramite il programma per videoconferenze ZOOM. Per la serie di quest’anno leggeremo romanzi tutti scritti in prima persona. L’io narrante in […]
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Tuscan Tales: the fantastic fables of Emma Perodi
Thursday 8 April, 6pmTuscan Tales: the fantastic fables of Emma Perodi Translator Katherine Gregor interviews fellow Italian-English translator Lori Hetherington about her recent publication of Tuscan Tales: the fantastic fables of Emma Perodi, the first book-length translation in English to originate from Perodi’s most famous volume, Le novelle della nonna. Fiabe fantastiche (1892). The discussion […]
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Emotional Arenas: Life, Love and Death in 1870s Italy by Mark Seymour
Thursday 1 April, 6pmBook presentation: Emotional Arenas: Life, Love and Death in 1870s Italy by Mark Seymour (Oxford University Press 2020) Emotional Arenas uses the records of a dramatic 1879 Roman murder trial to investigate the social history of Liberal Italy and to develop a new paradigm for emotions history – the ‘emotional arena’. Through close examination […]
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