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18 April 2017
New York: Claudio Magris talks about ‘Blameless’ with two special guests

Claudio Magris, a most revered Italian writer, will engage in conversation with colleagues Jamaica Kincaid and Norman Mane on 19 April at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. The occasion will be the presentation of his latest searing novel, ‘Blameless‘, published by Yale University Press. The novel ruthlessly confronts the human obsession with war […]

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18 April 2017
Buenos Aires – Nanni Moretti attends the BAFICI Independent Film Festival

“I believe in people. But I do not believe in the majority of people…” This is a famous quote by Nanni Moretti from his movie  ‘Caro diario’ (‘Dear Diary’), which will be screened at the BAFICI independent film festival, on Thursday, 20 April ( at  5:10 p.m at Theatre 4, Village Recoleta). The Festival will run from 19 to 30 […]

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14 April 2017
Belarus – a documentary and photo exhibition narrates 25 years of diplomatic relations between Italy and Belarus and their past and contemporary cultural relations

The Belarusian National Library opened , on 12 April, in Minsk, the documentary and photo exhibition on the “Past and Contemporary Cultural Relations between Italy and Belarus”. It is an initiative of the Italian Embassy in Minsk, in collaboration with the National Library and the Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art. The event looks back […]

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14 April 2017
Budapest – Easter Concert with a Baroque wooden pipe organ

The Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest is celebrating Easter with a classical music concert by Maria Grazia Amoruso, accompanied by the Musica Sonora Chamber Orchestra conducted by Maestro Péter Illényi. The works of Joseph Haydn will be played on a special wooden pipe organ, which was traditional in the Baroque era. Built by Giorgio Questa, it is a […]

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14 April 2017
Copenhagen – Cinema, history and mystery: Italian Cultural Institute screens a film on Ettore Majorana

“There are some truly extraordinary geniuses, like Galileo and Newton: Majorana is one of them”, said Enrico Fermi about Ettore Majorana, Italy’s greatest twentieth century physicist, the brightest of the ‘Via Panisperna boys’. His disappearence in March 1938, while on a ferry travelling from Palermo to Naples, is one of the biggest Italian mysteries of the last hundred […]

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14 April 2017
Moscow – Agreement between Italian and Russian research institutes renewed

The Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare – INFN) and the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) have renewed their framework agreement for scientific cooperation. The agreement was signed by INFN President, Fernando Ferroni, and JINR Director, Victor A. Matveev, in the presence of Italian President, Sergio Mattarella. The signing ceremony was attended by Cesare Maria Ragaglini, the Italian Ambassador in […]

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11 April 2017
United States – Calvino and videogames: fusion in Jonathan Blow’s art

In 1984, Italo Calvino  was invited to hold a series of lectures at Harvard University. Before his death, he completed five of the six Lessons planned on the imaginative possibilities of language and literature. His lessons were collected under the well-known title of “American Lessons: Six Memos for the Next Millennium”, now available with a […]

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10 April 2017
Tosca to be staged at Kiev’s National Opera Theatre until May

The National Opera of Ukraine will be the stage of Tosca, Giacomo Puccini’s famous opera, with performances continuing until May. The initiative, which forms part of a long-standing cooperation between the Italian Embassy in Ukraine, the Italian Cultural Institute in Kiev, the Ukrainian Ministry of Culture and the National Opera of Ukraine, celebrates the 60th […]

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10 April 2017
Germany – Books, “The Cyclops” by Paolo Rumiz presented in Germany

The Italian Cultural Institute (IIC) in Munich hosts the presentation of “Il ciclope” (“The Cyclops”) by Paolo Rumiz. The book will be presented by the author at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, 21 April, at the Italian Cultural Institute on Hermann-Schmid-Straße 8. The chat will be moderated by Andrea Bachstein, a journalist at the Süddeutsche Zeitung, one […]

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10 April 2017
Paris – Nicolò Degiorgis’s ‘Eurotunnel’ to open on 10 April

The exhibition ‘Eurotunnel’ will open in Paris on 10 April. The concept of the exhibition was developed in February, during photographer Nicolò Degiorgis’s artist-in-residence stay at the Italian Cultural Institute in the French capital. The artist conceives the Eurotunnel as a space that is at the same time material and symbolic and that serves to […]

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7 April 2017
The Pleasure of Reading in Italian: Great Literature at the Embassy in Brasilia

Thursdays are dedicated to the “pleasure of reading in Italian” at the Italian Embassy in Brasilia. Our embassy is holding a series of readings of a number of Italy’s most important authors of contemporary literature. The series began on 13 March with Elena Ferrante’s “L’Amica geniale”. It continues on 27 April with Niccolò Ammaniti’s “Io […]

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