United States – Calvino and videogames: fusion in Jonathan Blow’s art

In 1984, Italo Calvino  was invited to hold a series of lectures at Harvard University. Before his death, he completed five of the six Lessons planned on the imaginative possibilities of language and literature. His lessons were collected under the well-known title of “American Lessons: Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, now available with a […]

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G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting

Final Communiqué Declaration on responsible States behaviour in cyberspace Statement on Non Proliferation and Disarmament

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Minister Alfano to Japanese Foreign Affairs Minister Kishida: “Italian G7 Presidency. Strong alignment with Tokyo.”

“The Italian G7 Presidency follows that of Japan in a prospect of continuity. Our programme has placed citizens and their needs in terms of social, economic, environmental well-being and security at the centre of the agenda and of the political action of our Presidency,” said the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, […]

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Foreign ​Minister Alfano has telephone call with Iranian colleague Zarif before opening G7 meeting

Today in the early afternoon, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, had a telephone call with his Iranian colleague, Mohammad Javad Zarif, before the G7 ministerial meeting, which opened today at 4:30 p.m.The telephone call was requested by the Iranian minister and focused, above all, on the situation in Syria.Following the […]

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Tosca to be staged at Kiev’s National Opera Theatre until May

The National Opera of Ukraine will be the stage of Tosca, Giacomo Puccini’s famous opera, with performances continuing until May. The initiative, which forms part of a long-standing cooperation between the Italian Embassy in Ukraine, the Italian Cultural Institute in Kiev, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and the National Opera of Ukraine, celebrates the 60th […]

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Germany – Books, “The Cyclops” by Paolo Rumiz presented in Germany

The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Munich hosts the presentation of “Il ciclope” (“The Cyclops”) by Paolo Rumiz. The book will be presented by the author at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, 21 April, at the Italian Cultural Institute on Hermann-Schmid-Straße 8. The chat will be moderated by Andrea Bachstein, a journalist at the Süddeutsche Zeitung, one […]

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Conference “Migration and Development”

On Monday, 10 April 2017, the Farnesina hosts the Conference “Migrations and Development”, organised by the Italian Development Cooperation Agency, and to be opened by the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Mario Giro. The main theme of the event and the primary objective of Italian Development Cooperation is uprooting poverty, reducing inequalities, […]

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Paris – Nicolò Degiorgis’s ‘Eurotunnel’ to open on 10 April

The exhibition ‘Eurotunnel’ will open in Paris on 10 April. The concept of the exhibition was developed in February, during photographer Nicolò Degiorgis’s artist-in-residence stay at the Italian Cultural Institute in the French capital. The artist conceives the Eurotunnel as a space that is at the same time material and symbolic and that serves to […]

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The G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting opens today in Lucca

Concomitantly to the G7  Meeting, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation,  Angelino Alfano, has called an extraordinary meeting on Syria at 8 a.m. on Tuesday at Lucca’s Ducal Palace, extended to the Foreign Ministers of Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Qatar.

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Attacks in Egypt: Alfano: terror will be defeated

“I am horrified by the two attacks perpetrated on Palm Sunday on the Egyptian Coptic Orthodox churches in Tanta and Alexandria. These vile attacks have taken a frightful toll of lives in a place of peace, making the act even more cowardly and evil,” said Angelino Alfano, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. […]

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PRESS ACCREDITATION NOTICE – Commemoration Ceremony – Sant’Anna di Stazzema – 10 April 2017

On Monday, 10 April, at 10:30 a.m., the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Angelino Alfano, will visit the National Park of Peace at Sant’Anna di Stazzema, the place that formed the backdrop to one of the most atrocious crimes committed by the Nazi-Fascist regime in Italy during World War II, and precisely on […]

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Alfano “Justified response by violations in Damascus. But now let us resort to the UN” (Corriere della Sera)

“Minister Alfano, are we sure that Assad used chemical weapons during the Khan Sheikhoun bombing, or was the area bombed with conventional armaments from ISIL chemical weapon stocks, as Russia maintains?”“Practically speaking, the missiles launched from U.S. ships struck the Syrian bases where the attacks to civilians originated. In other words, the U.S. response is […]

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