Diplomazia Culturale

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28 January 2015

U.S.: Major acknowledgement for Italian language

The United States’ CollegeBoard, a non-profit organisation that every year helps more than seven million students prep for college admission, gave a boost to efforts to promote the Italian language in the U.S. by committing to support funding for the continued inclusion of Italian among the Advanced Placement (AP) programme language exams. Italian ambassador to […]

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28 January 2015

Valona: Presentation of ‘Essays on culture, politics and power’

The Consulate General of Italy in Valona recently hosted a press conference for the presentation of Franco Ferrarotti’s “Essays on culture, politics and power”. The book contains some of the author’s most important essays, using the theories of Weber and Horkheimer, on social rationalisation and bureaucratisation processes, on Italy and on the modernisation of a […]

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28 January 2015

Valona: Presentation of ‘Essays on culture, politics and power’

The Consulate General of Italy in Valona recently hosted a press conference for the presentation of Franco Ferrarotti’s “Essays on culture, politics and power”. The book contains some of the author’s most important essays, using the theories of Weber and Horkheimer, on social rationalisation and bureaucratisation processes, on Italy and on the modernisation of a […]

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27 January 2015

Brussels – Domenico Scarpa presents “Così fu Auschwitz”

The Italian Cultural Institute of Brussels will premier Primo Levi’s collection “Così fu Auschwitz. Testimonianze 1945-1986” [That was Auschwitz. Testimonials 1945-1986], a book edited by Fabio Levi and Domenico Scarpa (Einaudi, Turin 2014) that gathers what are, for the most part, previously unpublished testimony and documentation. Speakers at the event, to be held at 19:00 […]

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27 January 2015

Paris – exhibition of work by Carlo Mollino

An exhibition will open in Paris on 5 February of the work of eclectic architect, designer, race car driver and pilot, photographer, professional skier and professor of architectural composition at the Turin Polytechnic Institute. On display will be project drawings, architectural and automobile designs and models illustrating the extraordinary output of this important post-war figure. […]

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27 January 2015

Berlin – Exhibition ‘Botticelli Renaissance’ launched

A press conference was recently held in Berlin to launch the exhibition “Botticelli. 2015-1445. The Botticelli Renaissance”. Attendees included Director General of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Eissenhauer. The exhibition is set to open in September and intends to retrace the 19th and 20th century rediscovery of the great Florentine master, and will focus not […]

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26 January 2015

Guatemala: in mostra ‘i volti di Atitlan’

“I volti di Atitlan”. E’ questo il titolo di una mostra organizzata dall’Istituto Italiano di Cultura (Iic) di Citta’ del Guatemala, in cui sara’ presentata un’esposizione fotografica di Roberto Quesada, a sostegno delle iniziative realizzate nel 2014 dedicate alla sensibilizzazione sullo stato del Lago di Atitlan. Le stesse hanno preso avvio con il Foro Internazionale […]

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26 January 2015

Bruxelles: si discute di ‘Via Francigena: un cammino europeo’

“La Via Francigena: un cammino europeo”. Ne discuteranno il 3 febbraio a Bruxelles i rappresentanti delle Istituzioni europee, della Regione Toscana e del mondo italiano ed europeo della cultura e del settore turistico, che illustreranno la Francigena quale esperienza culturale-turistica di dimensione europea e di buona prassi di governo del territorio. L’iniziativa e’ organizzata dalla […]

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26 January 2015

Il Cairo: Cinema, i film italiani che raccontano la nostalgia

“Se vuoi costruire una barca, non radunare uomini per tagliare legna, dividere i compiti e impartire ordini, ma insegna loro la nostalgia per il mare vasto e infinito”. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, scrittore e aviatore francese – padre del “Piccolo Principe” descriveva così la nostalgia. Sono stati in tanti, tuttavia, – scrittori, filosofi, intellettuali, poeti – […]

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23 January 2015

Mostre: Washington celebra Piero di Cosimo con retrospettiva

Dal primo febbraio al 3 maggio, la National Gallery of Art di Washington ospiterà la prima importante retrospettiva dedicata all’artista fiorentino Piero di Cosimo dal titolo: “Piero di Cosimo: La Poesia della pittura nella Firenze rinascimentale”. In una versione diversa, la mostra si sposterà poi alla Galleria degli Uffizi dal 23 giugno al 27 settembre. […]

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23 January 2015

Pechino: Giorno della memoria alla scoperta di un eroe italiano

Nei giorni convulsi della Budapest del 1944, un giovane italiano si fece impostore, rischiando la propria vita pur di salvare migliaia di ebrei dalla deportazione e dalla morte: è la storia di Giorgio Perlasca – padovano, commerciante di carni – che Luca Zingaretti ha interpretato in una fortunata miniserie di Rai1. La versione cinematografica della […]

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23 January 2015

Lebanon – Photomed – Italian photographs on display

Photomed, the photography exhibition founded in France, is visiting the Land of Cedars this year. Featuring emerging photographers from the countries of the Mediterranean, the exhibition will run in various galleries in Beirut until 11 February 2015. The event was organised with help from the Embassies of France, Italy and Spain and the EU delegation […]

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