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28 May 2013
Senegal – Roberto Ciotti casts a spell over Dakar

The music of Roberto Ciotti, a blues guitarist of global renown, casts a spell over Dakar. The concert was organised by the Italian Embassy as part of its promotional and collaborative initiatives in Senegal. Ciotti was accompanied by drummer Ivano Fortuna and Habib Faye, a Senegalese bass player. They performed music composed by Youssou Ndour, […]

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27 May 2013
PRAGUE – concert for Festival of the Republic

The Baroque chapel of the Italian Cultural Institute of Prague will provide the setting on 31 May for a concert by the Milan String Ensemble and the piano duo Campisano-Punzo for the celebration of the Festival of the Republic. Read more, in Italian.

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27 May 2013
NEW YORK – American tribute to Gio’ Ponti

The Italian Cultural Institute of New York organised and is hosting an exhibition on one of Italy’s great masters of architecture and design, Gio’ Ponti, entitled ”Vivere alla Ponti/Living Ponti Style, which features furniture designed by Ponti along with letters, photos, videos and other forms of documentation illustrating the modernity of his approach. The show […]

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24 May 2013
ITALY-POLAND – meeting on role of President of the Republic

Warsaw’s Leon Kozminski University has hosted an Italian-Polish meeting on “The President of the Republic in Italy and in Poland”. The event, which enjoyed the patronage of President Giorgio Napolitano and President Bronisław Maria Komorowski, was organised by the University’s Law School and the Italian-Polish Association of Constitutional Lawyers. Speaking at the opening session, Italian […]

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23 May 2013
RIAD – Italian wins prize for translation of Plato from arabic

One of the winners of the “’King Abdullah International Prize for Translation 2013” is an Italian. Cecilia Martini, from the University of Padua, won the award in the humanities sector with her translation from Arabic into Italian of the mediaeval text “L’armonia delle opinioni dei due sapienti: il divino Platone e Aristotele”, written in the […]

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22 May 2013
LEBANON – A showcase for Italian products

Italy showcases its unique qualities in Lebanon, with the “Taste of Italy” event in Beirut. The initiative, designed to promote our country’s image abroad and encourage tourism, was organised by the Lebanese-American university (LAU) in collaboration with the Italian Embassy in Beirut. Lebanese importers and distributors of Italian food and drink products, and Italian producers […]

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22 May 2013
ITALY-SERBIA – Anniversary of edict of Milan celebrated with Verdi’s Aida

Italy and Serbia are drawing ever-closer through culture. The celebrations for the anniversary of the Edict of Milan were marked by a performance of Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida, staged by the National Theatre of Belgrade in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute. The audience included the President of the Republic of Serbia, Tomislav Nikolic; Foreign Minister […]

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22 May 2013
HERAT – Cutuli Foundation School Long-Listed for the Aga Khan Award

An Italian school is one of the 20 candidates for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2013. A school that is very special, in view not just of its location but also of its creators. The primary school in Herat was set up thanks to the Maria Grazia Cutuli Foundation, named after the journalist killed […]

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21 May 2013
WASHINGTON – Mostra fotografica Ansa “Tour around Italy” (in translation)

L’Ambasciata italiana a Washington ha ospitato la presentazione di una mostra fotografica digitale dell’agenzia ANSA dal titolo “Tour around Italy”: si tratta di un tour fotografico alla scoperta delle bellezze di ogni regione e dei tesori nascosti dell’Italia. Sei sezioni L’esposizione si divide in sei sezioni, ognuna delle quali è introdotta da un commento di […]

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21 May 2013
ZAMBIA – Fund-raising: from Lusaka to Florence by bike

Travelling from Lusaka to Florence on a bamboo tandem, through 13 African and two European countries, to raise funds to build a school in Zambia. That’s the challenge organised by Sport2build, an Italian non-profit, on which Matteo Sametti, one of the charity’s founders, will soon be embarking with a young citizen of Zambia. The initiative […]

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