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Press Releases
22 October 2013
The Foreign Ministry supports the 26th Winter Universiade in Trentino

The Foreign Ministry has decided to grant its patronage to the 26th Winter Universiade, which will be held in Trentino region from 11 to 21 December 2013. Minister Bonino is a member of the Committee of Honour. The Farnesina’s involvement was confirmed today, when the event was presented to the Foreign Press Association in Rome. […]

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22 October 2013
Freiburg – Boccaccio and Machiavelli celebrated in music and dance

Music and dance from the late-Mediaeval and Renaissance periods to celebrate the 700th anniversary of the birth of Boccaccio and the 500th anniversary of Niccolò Machiavelli’s “The Prince”. The Italian consulate in Freiburg organised a concert by Italian company “La Rossignol” to pay homage to the beauty of the Italian language, past and present, and […]

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22 October 2013
Brasilia – “Mestres do Renascimento” exhibition a huge success

The exhibition “Mestres do Renascimento” (Renaissance Masters), the largest featuring the Renaissance ever to be held in Latin America, has been a great success in Brasilia. Featuring works by Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Botticelli, Titian and other Italian masters, the show has attracted 3000 visitors so far. The opening ceremony, commented Italian Ambassador Raffaele Trombetta, “was […]

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21 October 2013
Montreal – From Vivaldi to Tiepolo: Venetian art and music on display

An exhibition entitled “Splendour in Venice: from the Renaissance to the Baroque, the art and music of the Serenissima” has opened in Montreal.An interdisciplinary voyage through the visual arts, music and political culture of Venice, the exhibition features works by Titian, Tintoretto, Bassano, Giovanni Battista, Domenico Tiepolo, and Francesco Guard. Organised by Montreal Museum of […]

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21 October 2013
Italy-Norway – Italian photography exhibition in Tromso

Tromsø, a Norwegian city over 1500 km north of Oslo, is hosting an exhibition entitled “Italiensk Fotografi”, an overview of the photographic works of Gianni Berengo Gardin and Piergiorgio Brazzi. The show was organised with the support of the Forma Foundation in Milan and the Italian Cultural Institute in Oslo. Read more, in Italian

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21 October 2013
Principality of Monaco – Italian artists on display

Works by contemporary Italian artists are on display in Monaco as part of the Principality’s Month of Italian Culture and Language, in an exhibition opened by Princess Charlene. Genoa: Art, Sea and Innovation A workshop on “Genoa: Art, Sea and Innovation” also took place as part of the “Italian Month”, with representatives of Genoa’s institutional, […]

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18 October 2013
Armenia – “The Italy of Knowledge” event in Jerevan

This week’s 13th edition of Italian Language Week in Jerevan, Armenia featured “Research, Discovery, Innovation: The Italy of Knowledge”, an event cited by Ambassador Bruno Scapini as one “focused on Italy’s contribution to centuries of scientific and educational knowledge in various fields of human activity”. Read more, in Italian.

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18 October 2013
Tbilisi – Italy and restoration arts on display

Tbilisi discovers the art of Italian restoration in an exhibition at Europe House that runs through this Sunday. The itinerant “Restoration in Italy. Art and technology in the activities of the Advanced Institute for Conservation and Restoration” covers the most significant projects completed by the institute since its founding in 1939. Read more, in Italian

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18 October 2013
Japan – Osaka hosts education fair

Italy returns to Japan for the second year to present its educational opportunities at the Osaka Study in Italy Fair organised for 10 November by the Italian Cultural Institute of Osaka in collaboration with the Italo-Japanese association, which will also include a two-day exhibit at the Italian Cultural Institute of Tokyo. Read more, in Italian

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Press Releases
17 October 2013
Italy-Cuba: Giro in Havana for bilateral policy talks

Under-Secretary Mario Giro held the first session of a series of bilateral Italo-Cuban policy talks yesterday with his Cuban counterpart Deputy Minister Rogelio Sierra Diaz. Their discussions foregrounded economic collaboration, with Cuba’s expression of a desire to expand the Italian cooperative experience and illustration of investment opportunities on that Caribbean island, encouraged by incentives for […]

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17 October 2013
USA – From Florence to Chicago, masterpieces by Artemisia

The Uffizi Gallery of Florence is sending the celebrated “Judith beheading Holfernes” by Artemisia Gentileschi to the Art Institute of Chicago, where it will be included in an exhibition entitled “Violence and Virtue” organised in collaboration with the Foundation for Italian Art and Culture. Read more, in Italian

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