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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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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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27 November 2013
Expo2015 – New visa centre opens in Beijing

A new outsourced Italian visa centre – “Spazio Italia” – opened in Beijing for the purpose of the rapid issuance of tourist, business and investment visas, which are increasingly in demand, and will be even more so with the approaching EXPO 2015, which is expected to bring millions of visitors to Milan and across the […]

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26 November 2013
Italy-Russia – Bonino-Lavrov: pleased with progress on Syria and Iran

Minister for Foreign Affairs Emma Bonino and her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov met today in the margins of the intergovernmental economic summit, held in Trieste, to discuss principal international concerns such as the Iranian nuclear programme and the Syrian crisis. Syria: widening the conference stage The two ministers judged as favourable the decision to set […]

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26 November 2013
Italy-USA – Accademia Teatro Scala crosses the ocean

The young soloists and musicians of the orchestra of the La Scala academy cross the ocean for the Year of Italy in the US festivities, thanks to the support of the Fondazione Bracco, to give a concert on 4 December at the Strathmore Music Centre. Read more, in Italian

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26 November 2013
Buenos Aires – Italian narrative in Argentina

The impact of past and present Italian narrative in Argentina will be the topic of a debate organised by the Italian Cultural Institute of Buenos Aires for 2 December, 60 years on from the publishing of “Letras italianas” – a monographic issue of the magazine Sur in November 1953. Read more, in Italian.

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