The 19th edition of the Week of Italian Language in Greece will be devoted to Italian on stage, focusing on theatre, poetry and Italian Studies. A thorough programme of initiatives coordinated by the Italian Embassy in Athens, under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic of Italy, is ongoing in the Greek capital. The Athens State School will take on stage at the Alpha Theatretwo performances with a primary school (“an odyssey for peace”) and with a secondary school (Aristophanes’ “The Birds”). The Week’s programme will include a series of events focusing on the strong bonds between Italian and Greek, namely “Italianisms in modern Greek and in its dialects”, along with the 5th Symposium of the Observatory of Italianisms in the World (Accademia della Crusca), which will delve into the issues of “language and translation”, to take place at Athens Kapodistrian University, organised within the framework of the Embassy’s initiative “Tempo Forte Italia-Grecia”.
“The presence of classical Greek in Italian Poetry” will be the theme of the address which will follow the awarding of the Honorary Degree of the Department of Italian Language and Literature to the Professor Emeritus Luca Setrrianni, (member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Accademia della Crusca and Arcadia and vice president of the Dabte Alighieri Society). Poetry will also be the topic of the event organised by the Italian CXultural Institute in Athens, entitled “Poetical compositions in seventeen syllables. On the tradcks of Haiku in Italy and Greece”, in conjunction with the Pan-Hellenic Association of Writers and Poets”.
The review will close with the screening of Francesco Rizzi’s film “Cronofobia” (2018, Italy-Switzerland),organised in cooperation with the Italian Embassy in Switzerland. The event will take place at the Italian Cultural Institute, and will be followed by Paolo Fabbri’s seminar, within the framework of the 12th International Semiotics Conference focusing on the “Symbols of Europe”, organised by the Aristoteles University of Thessaloniki, by the Hellenic Semiotics Society and the Semniotics Laboratory of the Aristoteles University, in conjuction with the Italian Cultural Institute in Athens.
