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15 November 2021

Hasselt: exhibition of graphic art “Writing the Divine Comedy”

The exhibition of graphic and calligraphic art  “Writing the Divine Comedy” is returning to Hasselt, in Belgium, from 19 to 27 November 2021. Organised by the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels, the exhibition has been made possible thanks to the collaboration of the Dante Alighieri Committee of Hasselt and can be visited at the TT-Center […]

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15 November 2021

Third edition of the Italian Wine Fair in Brazil

The third edition of the Italian Wine Fair was held in Brazil on November 10 in the elegant setting of the Nervi Room at the Italian Embassy in Brasilia. It was a specialized event intended for a select public, curated by the International Food&Wine critic, Sueli Maestri. The twelve main importers and distributors presented over […]

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15 November 2021

Rabat: “Waiting for the Cooking Week: Cinema is served”

On the occasion of the “Week of Italian Cuisine in the World”, scheduled from 22 to 28 November next, the Italian Cultural Institute of Rabat organised “Waiting for the Cooking Week: Cinema is served (Aspettando la Settimana della Cucina: Il Cinema e’ servito)”, a review of five films, proposed from 15 to 19 November 2021, […]

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15 November 2021

The sixth edition of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World kicks off in the USA

The sixth edition of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the world, an initiative promoted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation worldwide, is part of the renewed post-pandemic confidence, the resumption of transatlantic travel and the revival of trade between Italy and the US. The focus of the 2021 edition is Italian […]

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15 November 2021

“Enchanting Architecture”, the story of the IIC building in Stockholm

“Enchanting Architecture” is the title of a historical publication about the construction of the Italian Institute of Culture’s home in Stockholm, one of the most representative Italian buildings abroad, designed and furnished in the Fifties by Gio Ponti at the initiative of the engineer and industrialist, Carlo Maurilio Lerici, who also contributed significantly to financing […]

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15 November 2021

Italy to be guest of honor at the book fair in the United Arab Emirates

Italy will be the guest of honor at the 2022 edition of the Sharjah International Book Fair (SIBF),  one of the top book fairs in the world for number of exhibitors (1600, from 83 countries) and number of volumes exhibited, but above all for number of agreements relative to sales of translation rights. Italy’s participation […]

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12 November 2021

Lusaka: webinar on ‘’Art and Energy’’

The Embassy of Italy in Zambia has organised an event on “ART and Energy” today, in Lusaka, addressing two themes: how to build a renewable future for Zambia and what kind of energy comes from art.  With the participation of the Zambian Minister of Energy, Hon. Peter Kapala, and the Secretary General of the Common […]

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12 November 2021

Toronto: Artemis Danza in Dante’s Inferno

For the first time the Italian Cultural Institute of Toronto presents a show by the Italian contemporary dance company Artemis Danza, as part of the programme of events and celebrations for the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death. The dancers will accompany the audience on an extravagant journey into Dante’s Inferno with choreographic scenes dedicated […]

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12 November 2021

Paris and Berlin: 3 days to remember Andrea Zanzotto

As part of the initiatives for the centenary of Andrea Zanzotto’s birth, the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris is organising a conference from 25 to 27 November. The aim is to project the literary and intellectual figure of a writer who is too often reduced to a local Italian and Venetian matrix on to the […]

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12 November 2021

A lecture in Moscow about Venetian banquets in the 18th century

In 18th-century Venice, festivities and banquets were so sumptuous that nowadays we consider that period one of the liveliest epochs of Venetian culture. On November 26, thanks to an initiative of the Italian Institute of Culture in Moscow, Ekaterina Igošina, art historian and director of the scientific library of the A.S. Puškin State Fine Arts […]

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12 November 2021

London: Dante’s Inferno illustrated by Botticelli

For the first time in London, on 16 November, it will be possible to admire a decorated example of the first edition of the Divine Comedy, printed in 1481 in Florence, with 20 engravings based on drawings by Sandro Botticelli. To conclude the celebrations for the Year of Dante, the Italian Ambassador in London, Raffaele […]

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12 November 2021

Tunis: staging contemporary Italian dance

The Italian Cultural Institute in Tunis presents the first Italian Contemporary Dance Platform, “D’accordo”, at the Tunis Opera House, a project that aims both to present contemporary dance to the Tunisian public and to create opportunities for sharing artistic expertise. The event, organised in partnership with the Tunis Opera House, which has included it in […]

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