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9 February 2012
Belgrado: medicina, workshop italo-serbo sui trapianti (in translation)

Il 6 febbraio Belgrado ha ospitato un workshop dedicato al tema dei trapianti di organi e tessuti ed al confronto dei sistemi di gestione dei trapianti in Serbia ed Italia. L’evento è stato organizzato congiuntamente dai Ministeri della Salute dei due Paesi e dall’Ambasciata italiana, con la partecipazione della Commissione Europea (DGRI). Durante gli interventi […]

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8 February 2012
Hidden treasures: 10 years of Italy in Afghanistan

Italy’s civil commitment in Afghanistan is a long and successful story. To recall these successes, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) is promoting an event entitled “Hidden Treasures: 10 years of Italy in Afghanistan”, which will take place on 10 February 2012 in the MAXXI Gallery in Rome. The event, which will be introduced by […]

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8 February 2012
Publishing – Italy to be guest of honour at Madrid Book air

Italy will be the guest of honour at the 71st Madrid Book Fair, which will take place from 25 May to 10 June 2012. The announcement was made by the Italian Embassy in Spain. The Embassy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid will help organise a programme of events at the institutional and cultural […]

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8 February 2012
Taipei: Cecco Angiolieri and the eclectic poetry of Lorenzo de’ Medici

After last year’s great success with public readings of Dante, in 2012 the Dolce Stil Novo once again played a starring role at the International Book Fair in Taipei. Taiwan’s reading public were treated to the comic-realist poetry of Cecco Angiolieri and the more eclectic works (carnival-inspired rhymes and songs) of Lorenzo de’ Medici. A […]

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8 February 2012
Italian my way: 1001 ways the Japanese use Italian

In Japan, it is becoming more and more common to come across signs and advertisements containing Italian words. The use of our language to advertise new products or venues creatively is, it seems, a growing trend. Italian slogans based on unexpected linguistic combinations and wordplay, intended or not, are just some examples of the thousand […]

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3 February 2012
Lima: exhibition on Italy’s museum homes a big success

More than five thousand visitors were recorded just in the first week of the exhibition “Museum homes. The taste for living in Italy”, mounted in the Peruvian resort town of Asia, located south of Lima. They came to admire the various typologies of a very special way of living, each of which a typically Italian […]

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31 January 2012
Santiago: Bergamo’s “Tascabile” and Cesena’s “Raffaello Sanzio” at Santiago’s Theatre Festival

Bergamo’s “Tascabile” and Cesena’s “Raffaello Sanzio” theatre companies represented Italy at the 19th “Santiago a Mil” International Theatre, Music and Dance Festival. The Festival, which took place in the Chilean capital in January 2012, is one of the country’s major cultural events. Bergamo’s Teatro Tascabile is an avant-garde company of international fame. For the Festival […]

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Press Releases
24 January 2012
Minister Terzi meets with Emirates foreign minister Sheikh Abdallah bin Zayed Al Nayan

Minister for Foreign Affairs Terzi met today at the foreign ministry in Rome with Foreign Minister of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Abdallah bin Zayed Al Nayan. The meeting’s agenda included recent events in the Middle East and Mediterranean, and it followed Minister Terzi’s participation in the Foreign Affairs Council yesterday in Brussels and his […]

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19 January 2012
Sofia: FMR library showcases the beauty of italy

Italy’s great artistic and natural patrimony comes to the Bulgarian public through the Fondazione Marilena Ferrari, in an exhibition of books entitled “Italian publishing showcases the beauty of Italy: the FMR library”, and will be open from 23 to 30 January 2012 at the Exhibition Hall of the Municipal Library of Sofia. The initiative has […]

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18 January 2012
Calcutta: Italy guest of the book fair

The Calcutta International Book Fair opens on 24 January, where Italy has been invited as guest of honour. With over one million participants and proceeds of nearly two million euro in books sold at every recurrence, the “Kolkata Book Fair” is India’s most important event of the kind. It takes place at this time every […]

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