1-31 December 2020 Artekino Festival
The fifth edition of the ArteKino Festival, will take place online in Europe from the 1st to the 31st of December 2020 and will present 10 European films in 10 European languages (French, German, English, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Hungarian and Dutch). The films will be available for free in 45 European countries on […]
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Book launch of Tim Parks, Italian Life: A Modern Fable of Loyalty and Betrayal (Harvill Secker, 2020)
Tim Parks in conversation with John FootChaired by Nicol Degli Innocenti (Il Sole 24 Ore)Introduced by Katia Pizzi (Director, ICI London) How does Italy really work? The bestselling writer on Italian culture sets out to answer the big questionFrom the bestselling author of Italian Neighbours, An Italian Education and Italian Ways, Italian Life is a […]
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Rose Island – special preview virtual screening
ICI London and CinemaItaliaUK have teamed up with Netflix to offer a preview screening of Rose Island, a film directed by Sydney Sibilia, with an all-star cast including Elio Germano, Matilda de Angelis, Fabrizio Bentivoglio and Luca Zingaretti.Based on incredible true events, ROSE ISLAND is a hilarious drama with a rebellious heart. It tells the […]
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The Diasporic Plate
A series of online talks and an international conference on the occasion of the fifth edition of the Settimana della Cucina Italiana nel Mondo, curated by Patrizia Sambuco (Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory at the Institute for Modern Language Research of the University of London) and Katia Pizzi (Director, ICI […]
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The importance of diet for the immune system in stressful situations:experts’ opinion
A webinar organised by the Accademia Italiana della Cucina, London Delegation, under the patronage of the Embassy of Italy, London, in collaboration with ICI London on the occasion of the fifth edition of the Settimana della Cucina Italiana nel Mondo Zoom Meeting Introduction and presentation Alessandro Motta, Deputy Head of Mission, Embassy of Italy in […]
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Book launch – The Grace of the Italian Renaissance by Ita Mac Carthy
Webinar with Ita Mac Carthy (Professor in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the Durham University) in conversation with Patricia Emison (Art & Art History Professor at the University of New Hampshire), Paolo D’Angelo (Professor of Aesthetics at Roma Tre University) and Martino Rossi Monti (Research Associate at the Institute of Philosophy in Zagreb).The conversation will […]
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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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Book launch – Innesti: Primo Levi e i libri altrui
Book launchInnesti: Primo Levi e i libri altrui, curated by Gianluca Cinelli and Robert Gordon Published by Peter Lang With Gianluca Cinelli, Robert Gordon, Ian Thomson and Anna BaldiniIntroduced by ICI Director Katia Pizzi and Philip Cooke Primo Levi was an avid reader: extraordinarily curious, he explored several genres and fields of knowledge, from literature to […]
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Aby Warburg Reading Group. The Afterlife of Classical Antiquity in the Italian Renaissance #4
Fourth meeting. MNEMOSYNE 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 di sangue, […]
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RAPHAEL 500 #2 – The Raphael Cartoons at the V&A
A talk by Dr Ana Debenedetti (Victoria and Albert Museum) Ana Debenedetti talks to Warburg Deputy Director Michelle O’Malley about the V&A’s new installation of the celebrated Raphael Cartoons in the Museum’s Raphael Court. This event is also part of the Curatorial Conversations series, which brings to the Warburg curators of world-leading museums and galleries […]
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