Grande Karma, Vite di Carlo Coccioli, by Alessandro Raveggi (Bompiani)
Wednesday 31 March, 6pm Carlo Coccioli: his travels to Mexico, Paris and Florence, his friends Curzio Malaparte and Jean Cocteau, the topics of homosexuality, alcoholism and animal rights. Alessandro Raveggi in conversation with Claudia Durastanti talks about his latest book Grande Karma, Vite di Carlo Coccioli (Bompiani) dedicated to the life of one of […]
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Dante nel Mondo – Dante in the World
Dante nel Mondo – Dante in the World21-25 March 2021 Watch ICI London’s video Dante@700: A Journey Without End. Actress Greta Scacchi reading from the Canto V of the Inferno, then scholar, author and translator Ian Thomson (East Anglia University) talking about Dante, his work and his importance in the Anglophone world. Greta Scacchi reads […]
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Invernomuto e Jim C. Nedd @ Liverpool Biennial
20 March – 27 June 2021 Venue: Liverpool Cotton Exchange Building Grito – Las Brisas de Febrero ICI London is pleased to support once again the work of artists Artists Invernomuto (duo Simone Bertuzzi and Simone Trabucchi) & Jim C. Nedd: an immersive audio-visual installation Grito – Las Brisas de Febrero (2021) at Liverpool Cotton […]
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An Elephant in Rome. Bernini, the Pope and the Making of the Eternal City
Book launch of An Elephant in Rome. Bernini, the Pope and the Making of the Eternal City by Loyd Grossman – published by Pallas Athene. The author in conversation with Georgina Godwin, introduced by Katia PIzzi In 1655, a new Pope, Alexander VII, fired with religious zeal, political guile and a mania for building, determined to restore the […]
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Italian Fascism – 100 Years on: Strongmen and Mussolini, Ruth Ben-Ghiat 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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Ariosto: The Orlando Furioso and English Culture (Oxford University Press 2019)
Friday 12 March, 6pm Ariosto: The Orlando Furioso and English Culture (Oxford University Press 2019) by Jane Everson, Andrew Hiscock and Stefano JossaChaired by Katia Pizzi From Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing to John Milton’s Paradise Lost, up to Sir Walter Scott ‘the Ariosto of the North’ in Lord Byron’s definition, and J. K. Rowling, whose […]
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Dante at Royal Holloway
ICI London supports a study-day to commemorate the seventh centenary of the death of the author of the Divine Comedy, organised by Royal Holloway University with the HARI Humanities and Arts Research Institute and UCML University Council of Modern Languages.Programme: 10am-12pmWorkshop for students from state schools 1.30pmWelcome First session. Chair: Professor Sarah Wright1.50pm: Welcome address from […]
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Ernesto de Martino, Decolonisation, and Translation
A conversation with Dorothy Louise Zinn (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) and Roberto Dainotto (Duke University). Chaired by Joseph John Viscomi (Birkbeck, University of London). Recorded on 1 March 2021 as part of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI) 2020-21 conference series, Italian Mediterraneans.
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Il Circolo di Lettura – Serie “In Prima Persona”, 2021: La Straniera, di Claudia Durastanti
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 genere […]
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Frolics in the Face of Europe Sir Walter Scott, Continental Travel, and the Tradition of the Grand Tour
Book launch of Frolics in the Face of Europe Sir Walter Scott, Continental Travel, and the Tradition of the Grand Tour by Dr Iain Gordon Brown on the occasion of the commemoration of Sir Walter Scott 250th birth anniversary in 2021. A webinar with Iain Gordon Brown and Joseph FarrellIntroduced by Katia Pizzi, Director, ICI LondonOn Webex Sir Walter […]
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