The Pleasure of Reading in Italian: Great Literature at the Embassy in Brasilia

Thursdays are dedicated to the “pleasure of reading in Italian” at the Italian Embassy in Brasilia. Our embassy is holding a series of readings of a number of Italy’s most important authors of contemporary literature. The series began on 13 March with Elena Ferrante’s “L’Amica geniale”. It continues on 27 April with Niccolò Ammaniti’s “Io non ho paura”, followed on 25 May by Alessandro Baricco’s “Seta”; on 29 June, Andrea Camilleri’s “Un mese con Montalbano”; on 27 July, Maurizio De Giovanni’s “Il senso del dolore. L’inverno del commissario Ricciardi”; on 31 August, Roberto Saviano’s “Gomorra”; on 28 September, Mario Calabresi’s “Spingendo la notte più in là”; on 26 October, Valerio Massimo Manfredi’s “Idi di Marzo”; on 30 November, Alberto Angela’s “Una giornata nell’antica Roma”; and on 7 December, Tiziano Terzani’s “La fine è il mio inizio”.