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Press Releases
20 February 2016
Ministry of Foreign Affairs pays tribute to Eco; Italian Institutes of Culture to commemorate him through 2016

The ​Italian cultural world grieves the enormous loss of Umberto Eco, a master of Italian culture who has helped make it known and loved around the world.  The Farnesina will protect his cultural, social and human heritage of works, also translated into 100 languages beyond Italian frontiers. To commemorate Umberto Eco’s artistic legacy, the Farnesina has decided to have its network of 80 Italian […]

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19 February 2016
Lisbon – Italian takes centre stage at Mother Language Day

Sunday, 21 February, is the International Mother Language Day launched by UNESCO in 1999 with the aim of promoting linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism. The Italian Institute of Culture in Lisbon has decided to celebrate the Day by taking part in the initiatives organised by the Gabinete Lisboa Encruzilhada de Mundos. Lisbon will celebrate […]

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18 February 2016
Paris – Theatre, Ippolita Baldini stages “Mia mamma è una marchesa” (“My Mother is a Marquise”)

A private story becomes a tool for a broader reflection on an individual’s desire for self-realization. The performance bears a trace of old Italian-style variety show with comic stunts, songs, dances and a truckload of irony. Starting on Wednesday, March 2, the Milan-born Ippolita Baldini will perform her successful “Mia mamma è una marchesa” (“My […]

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18 February 2016
Guatemala – Focuses on symbols of early Christianity

The ancient symbols of Christian spirituality and their evolution over time are the focus of two conferences in Guatemala City promoted by Professor Eliana Schillaci, head of the Landivariano Cultural Heritage Centre of Rafael Landivar University. The conferences were organised and hosted by the local Italian Institute of Culture (IIC). In the first event on […]

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18 February 2016
Tokyo – “Infinite variations”: Giorgio Morandi’s on tour in Japan

Giorgio Morandi’s art continues its tour of Japan: after a stop in Kobe, the exhibition “Giorgio Morandi. Infinite variations” will be hosted at the Tokyo Station Gallery where it will be inaugurated on Friday, Feb. 19 and will remain open until April 10. The exhibition is curated by the Istituzione Bologna Musei – Museo Morandi, […]

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17 February 2016
Tokyo – European Romanticism according to pianist Giuseppe Andaloro

Italian pianist Giuseppe Andaloro is one of todays most appreciated pianists. This year he is scheduled to perform at the Salzburg Festspiele, at the Festival of the Two Worlds in Spoleto, at the Hong Kong International Piano Competition and at the Arturo Benedetti Michelangelo Festival in Brescia and Bergamo. Born in 1982 in Palermo, he is very […]

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17 February 2016
Italy-Israel: a laboratory in Città Vecchia in Acri

An international workshop on the digital documentation and musealization of the historic buildings of the Old City is underway in the city of Acri. The aim is to familiarize visitors and residents with the architectural sites of the “Citta’ Vecchia”, documented through architectural drawings and three-dimensional models. A feasibility study will also be carried out to turn the old […]

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16 February 2016
La Valletta – Art and restoration, a focus on the Opificio delle pietre dure of Florence

“The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist” (1608), kept at St. John’s Cathedral in La Valletta, is Caravaggio’s major artwork of the Maltese period and was restored by the Opificio delle pietre dure (Workshop of Semi-precious Stones) of Florence. The Opificio’s Superintendent, Marco Ciatti, will be present at the conference organised by the Italian Institute […]

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16 February 2016
Zagreb – Focus on the influence of Italian opera on the Risorgimento

The Italian Institute of Culture in Zagreb, with the Bogdan Orizovic Library, have scheduled a moment of reflection on the Italian Risorgimento with a lecture by Monica Priante entitled “How Opera Became a Tool for Political Propaganda”, which will be held in Zagreb on Thursday. The promoters of the event said the Risorgimento was at […]

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16 February 2016
Wolfsburg – The city of Volkswagen hosts “The New Light of Emigration” exhibition

The words of sociologist Milena Gammaitoni: “In the field of sociology, building reality with its different identities, both individual and collective, can also be achieved through artistic experiences that, seen as ‘finite provinces of meaning’, synthesise, recall and evoke images, sensations and collective ideas of how we were, are and could become,” could very well […]

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