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Diplomazia Culturale

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2 December 2013
Zagreb – Major success for Maestro Michele Campanella

The Italian Embassy in Croatia, in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute in Zagreb, organised a concert by Maestro Michele Campanella on Thursday 28 November. The concert, organised in the framework of the Cultural and Education cooperation programme between Rome and Zagreb, was held in the Croatian Musical Institute’s concert hall in the Croatian capital. […]

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2 December 2013
Tirana – Art Kontakt Festival, with workshops organised by Italy

Revitalising and re-using public space through new languages of contemporary art: that’s the mission of Albania’s Art Kontakt Festival, now in its 10th edition. Italy will be taking part with a number of workshops and a performance at the National Historical Museum in Tirana. Read more, in Italian

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29 November 2013
Valensise at the 125th anniversary of the German Historical Institute

Deeply rooted relations that the two countries’ traditional collaboration could be made even stronger in the future. This was the message of foreign ministry secretary-general Ambassador Michele Valensise’s speech at the celebration of the 125th anniversary of the German Historical Institute (DHI) in Rome, founded in 1888. Oldest of German Historical Institutes abroad The Rome […]

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29 November 2013
Riga – The jazz of Rita Marcotulli

The city of Riga fell under the spell of the jazz of Rita Marcotulli, Italian pianist and composer who offered an unusual and variegated concert in the Latvian capital to an audience of over 300. Those attending included the Italian ambassador and other diplomats, the representative of the European Commission, the deans of the academy […]

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29 November 2013
Rome – Constantine and the Edict of Tolerance at the Markets of Trajan

A man who 1700 years ago had already understood the value of tolerance: that was how Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino described Constantine, Emperor of the Western World, during the opening of the exhibition “’Konstantin. The Edict of Constantine 1700 years later. Works by Veliko Mihajlovic’ at the Markets of Trajan in Rome. Bonino, […]

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28 November 2013
Aldo Moro from an international perspective, book launched at MFA

From 1963 to 1976, Aldo Moro figured prominently in Italian foreign policy and also in some pivotal moments in international politics. Nevertheless, only in recent times has his role in this latter sphere become the object of deep historical study; a study, moreover, that dismisses the prejudiced and stereotypical or simplistic portrayals of this statesman […]

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28 November 2013
Vietnam – Fashion and Wine, Showcase for Italy

Vietnam provided the setting for a showcase of Italian excellence in the fields of fashion and wine -making. More than 100 “B2B” meetings took place in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi. Delegations also enjoyed an exhibition on the fashion and stars of the “Hollywood years along the Tiber” that featured costumes and photographs from […]

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28 November 2013
Geneva – Innovative technologies in the service of culture

Innovative technologies in the service of culture and the role of the various sectors involved in the conservation of cultural property, was the theme of a conference organised by the Italian permanent mission to the international organisations in Geneva, within the broader context of the exhibition Memory/Future mounted at the Palais des Nations in the […]

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28 November 2013
Washington – Stradivarius night

The calendar of 2013 Year of Italian Culture in the United States was enriched with a new event. “Stradivarius Night” held at Villa Firenze, the residence of the Ambassador to Washington, offered a concert featuring two violins – the Ole Bull of 1687 and the Greffuhle of 1709 – the Herbert Axelrod viola of 1695 […]

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Press Releases
27 November 2013
Giro at UNESCO agency, a global world won’t survive without identity

“Italy confirms ICCROM’s strategic importance in the protection and recovery of cultural treasures, elements essential to reinforcing and maintaining identities within the current dynamics of globalisation”, commented Under-Secretary Mario Giro during his speech at the28th General Assembly of the International Centre for Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), a UNESCO agency […]

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27 November 2013
Historical-Diplomatic Archive, 2 new volumes – The past “connects us better with Europe in the present”, says Bonino

From Sidney Sonnino to Carlo Sforza, and from the years of the Tangiers crisis to those of post-WWII: two new volumes of the Foreign Ministry Historic-Diplomatic Archive were presented today. The conference, entitled “Historical-Diplomatic Documentation: between continuity and renewal” whose speakers included Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino and Secretary General Michele Valensise, offered an […]

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27 November 2013
Italy-Iran – Archaeological Mission close to major discovery

The Italo-Iranian Archaeological Mission in northern Khorasan is close to making a major discovery regarding the first Indo-European migration to the Iranian Plateau; excavations have revealed traces of a culture known as BMAC (Bactria-Margiana Archaeological Complex) previously identified in the Merv region of Turkmenistan. Read more, in Italian.

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