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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Book launch: Italian Philosophy of Technology. Socio-Cultural, Legal, Scientific and Aesthetic Perspectives on Technology.
Published by Springer with editors Simona Chiodo and Viola Schiaffonati (both from the Politecnico di Milano) and with Luciano Floridi (University of Oxford) and Maurizio Ferraris (Università degli Studi di Torino), authors of contributions to the book. This is the first volume about the Italian philosophy of technology written in English and including novel and translated […]
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#LaMiaVitaDopoIlCOVID: La ricerca scientifica dialoga con i giovani (My life after Covid: Young people and Scientific Research)
Wednesday 16 December, 2pm UK timeCNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche) presents#LaMiaVitaDopoIlCOVID: La ricerca scientifica dialoga con i giovani (My life after Covid: Young people and Scientific Research) Cultura e ricerca in Gran Bretagna? Giovani talenti italiani raccontano (Culture and research in GB? Talented young Italians talk about their experiences) With Katia Pizzi (Director, ICI London […]
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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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Food memories – Tasty discoveries. How food never lets you down.
A conversation between author Simonetta Agnello Hornby and Diego Zancani, Emeritus Oxford professor and author of How we fell in love with Italian food How come that a huge plate of steaming macaroni helped the great Giacomo Casanova escape from the Leads, Venice most famous and guarded prison? And were Casanova’s macaroni our kind of […]
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Aby Warburg Reading Group. The Afterlife of Classical Antiquity in the Italian Renaissance #5
Fifth meeting. The Warburg Library This regular seminar and reading group is devoted to the work of Aby Warburg (1866–1929), a prominent German art historian and cultural theorist who founded the Kulturwissenschaftliche Bibliothek Warburg, which later become the Warburg Institute. A lover of Italian art and culture, he called himself: “Amburghese di cuore, ebreo […]
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Gianni Celati in Context
Gianni Celati in Context Giornate di Studi Italian Cultural Institute, London, 9-10 dicembre 2020 a cura di Eloisa Morra e Katia Pizzi The conference languages are Italian and English 9 dicembre 2020 Registrazione disponibile qui 15.00 Celati e il ‘narrar breve’ Presiede: Nunzia Palmieri (Università di Bergamo) • Elisabetta Menetti (Università Modena- Reggio Emilia), Celati, […]
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RAPHAEL 500 #3 – New Perspectives on Raphael
Tuesday 8 December 2020, 5.30pm A panel discussion with: Tom Henry (University of Kent), Claudia La Malfa (Loyola University, Chicago and University of Kent in Rome), Adam Lowe (Factum Arte), Arnold Nesselrath (Humboldt University, Berlin), Catherine Whistler (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford). In the last few years, a plethora of international events, books, articles and exhibitions have […]
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