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12 September 2014
Paris – Italian Semester – Perugino exhibition opens

The exhibition on “Perugino, maestro di Raffaello” has opened at the Jacquemart-André Museum in Paris. The exhibition has been organised as one of the cultural events of the Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Staged with the patronage of the Italian Embassy in Paris and the subject of an event at the […]

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12 September 2014
Italy-Vietnam: Della Vedova meets Deputy Foreign Minister Ho Xuan Son

The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Benedetto Della Vedova, met the Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister, Ho Xuan Son, at the Farnesina today under the strategic partnership established in 2013. “We examined how best to strengthen and build upon relations between our two countries”, observed Della Vedova, “following Prime Minister Renzi’s visit to Hanoi in June 2014 […]

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11 September 2014
Barcelona – Italy’s Oscar-winning films in Spain

The first Italian film-maker to win an Oscar was Vittorio De Sica, with “Sciuscià” – a neorealism masterpiece from 1947. And in March 2014 Paolo Sorrentino’s “La Grande bellezza” brought the total of Italian Oscar-winning films to 13. All of these films will now be screened by the Italian Cultural Institute in Barcelona, during the […]

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10 September 2014
Los Angeles – Challenging convention at Juxtapoz Italiano

The exhibition entitled “Juxtapoz Italiano – Four Artists who Defy Convention” has opened in Los Angeles and will run until 1 October 2014. The exhibition brings together the work of Nicola Verlato, Fulvio di Piazza, Marco Mazzoni and Agostino Arrivabene, four painters who interpret and innovate the figurative tradition in Italian art. The four represent […]

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10 September 2014
Montreal – Discovering Marco Polo and his fabulous journey to the East

“The greatest book of the 13th century”. That is how literary critic Attilio Momigliano describes “Il Milione”, the centrepiece of the exhibition entitled “Marco Polo. Le fabuleux voyage”, which runs until 26 October 2014 at Montreal’s Pointe-à-Callière museum. The Italian Cultural Institute (ICI) is offering 3 guided tours of the exhibition (in Italian, and free […]

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10 September 2014
Toronto – Wine, film and Italy with “Natural Resistance”

The “Natural Resistance” documentary has its North American premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival, followed by a presentation by the director (and former sommelier), Jonathan Nossiter, at the city’s Italian Cultural Institute. The initiative, organised in collaboration with the ICE-Italian Trade Promotion Agency, is entitled “A Natural Wine Revolution: The Italian Avant Garde. A […]

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9 September 2014
Italy-USA: Student exchanges on the increase

Academic cooperation between Italy and the United States is growing. The Faculty of Medicine at Rome’s Tor Vergata University has signed a collaboration agreement with America’s George Washington University for a student exchange programme. Drawn up with help from the Science Attaché at the Embassy of Italy in Washington, Ranieri Guerra, the five-year agreement also […]

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9 September 2014
Lima – I “termini del discorso” (in translation)

L’Universita’ del Pacifico, in collaborazione con l’Istituto italiano di cultura (Iic) di Lima, presenta il congresso internazionale “I termini del discorso”. Ricercatori di diverse universita’ e distinte professioni (Diritto, Economia, Filosofia, Letteratura, Storia, Teologia, Teoria e pratica della traduzione) si riuniranno il 9 e 10 settembre presso l’auditorium dell’ateneo nella capitale peruviana per trattare il […]

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9 September 2014
Milano-Melbourne – 10 anni di gemellaggio, tanti eventi (in translation)

Festeggiamenti per i dieci anni di gemellaggio fra Milano e Melbourne: tanti gli eventi organizzati nella metropoli australiana per celebrare la forte relazione tra le due citta’. Tra questi, in occasione dell’inaugurazione della Settimana della Moda, e’ stata realizzata una serata di gala, con il console generale d’Italia, Marco Maria Cerbo, e il vice sindaco […]

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9 September 2014
Tirana – “Confini” project: new exhibition featuring Agostino Ferrari

After the exhibition entitled “Rimani mi dicesti ed io restai”, by Agnese Purgatorio, Tirana is now hosting the second artist in the “Borders, Languages, Spaces, Things and People” project. The new exhibition, “Interno-Esterno”, featuring works by Milanese artist Agostino Ferrari, will run in the Albanian capital until 26 September 2014. Read more, in Italian

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9 September 2014
Amburgo – Musica e cibo per l’Italian Aperitif (in translation)

Musica e cibo, un mix esplosivo quello che verra’ presentato il 18 settembre nel corso dell’Italian Aperitif, evento da gustare e ascoltare, divenuto ormai appuntamento stabile al Reeperbahn Festival. Arrivata alla quarta edizione, l’iniziativa vedra’ salire stavolta sul palco dello Spielbudenplatz Big Charlie, The Fabulous Beard e Black Eyed Dog. La band dei Big Charlie, […]

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8 September 2014
Repubblica Ceca – “La Puglia in festa” in mostra a Praga (in translation)

Le bellezze, la cultura e la storia della Puglia saranno al centro di un ciclo di incontri che si terranno a Praga dal 16 settembre al 14 ottobre. Obiettivo dell’iniziativa, organizzata dall’Istituto italiano di cultura e dalla direzione regionale per i Beni culturali e paesaggistici della Puglia, in collaborazione con l’Associazione Pugliesi in Repubblica Ceca, […]

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