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Press Releases
6 March 2013
Italy-USA: Terzi opens Piero della Francesca exhibition in New York

Foreign Minister Giulio Terzi has opened an exhibition entitled “’Piero della Francesca in America” at the Frick Collection in New York. The event came at the end of his two day-visit to the city, during which he met the Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, and the President of the General Assembly, Vuk […]

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5 March 2013
ITALY-EGYPT – Egyptian students under the spell of italian

The number of Egyptians studying Italian has boomed, with enrolments of university students learning the language of Dante rising fourfold in the last two years. The figure rose from 491 in academic year 2011/2012 to 1930 in 2012/2013, making a total of 9322 students enrolled in courses featuring Italian as a first or second language. […]

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5 March 2013
Zagreb – Venice on display: history meets technology

The exhibition on “Visualizing Venice, new technologies for urban history” has opened at the Italian Cultural Institute in Zagreb. The exhibition, which features the Visualizing Venice university research project, showcases some of the most innovative communications systems telling the story of the city’s transformations over the centuries. The research, which began in 2010, is being […]

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4 March 2013
USA – Contemporary italian poetry showcased in New York

Within the context of the Year of Italian Culture in the USA, an encounter was held at New York University with poet Corrado Calabrò – legal expert and President of AGCOM since 2005 – on contemporary Italian poetry, entitled “A life in Its Own Space”. Read more, in Italian.

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1 March 2013
HOUSTON – Treasures of the Venice jewish quarter

The lost silver treasures of the Venice Jewish Quarter will be displayed, for the first time, through 28 April at the Museum of Fine Arts of Houston (MFAH). The objects from the Venice synagogue were hidden away in 1943 and restored by Venetian Heritage Inc after their rediscovery 10 years ago. They include Jewish religious […]

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1 March 2013
SOFIA – “Italy of the future” from 4 march

“The Italy of the Future” exhibition opens in Sofia on 4 March, offering the Bulgarian public an innovative and interactive opportunity to view Italy’s scientific/technological face, in a journey through some of our most significant achievements in the fields of robotics, particle physics, medicine, restoration technologies archeology. Read more, in Italian.

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1 March 2013
VILNIUS – Alberto Angela’s anceint Rome at the Book Fair

Italy was well-represented at the 14th annual Vilnius International Book Fair with a series of presentations that included an encounter at the stand with writer and television host Alberto Angela, who presented the Lithuanian-language versions of his books “Una giornata nell’Antica Roma” and “Impero.Viaggio nell’Impero di Roma seguendo una moneta”. Read more, in Italian.

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1 March 2013
BUENOS AIRES – Argentine architecture speaks italian

“Argentine Architecture Speaks Italian” is the title of a seminar organised for Monday 4 March by the Italian Cultural Institute in Buenos Aires. Its purpose will be to discuss Italians’ contribution to the construction of that city and to Andean artistic culture. Read more in Italian.

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28 February 2013
Italy-Usa: The Year of Culture will strengthen ties

The year of Italian culture in the United States aims to strengthen ties with the American people, with whom Italy “shares the values of democracy, rule of law, identity and respect for people”, asserted Minister Giulio Terzi, who presented the initiative along with US Secretary of State John Kerry. More than 180 events in 40 […]

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28 February 2013
SHANGHAI – History of italian presence

An historic map has been published in Italian on the presence of Italians in the city of Shanghai “Gli Italiani a Sciangai, 1608-1949”, offering Italians working in Shanghai documentation of an historic memory in addition to making a contribution to the reconstruction of the history of the city itself. The map is to be published […]

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27 February 2013
SOFIA – Taviani retrospective at Cinema Festival

The 17th edition of the Sofia International Film Festival (Siff) will showcase a retrospective dedicated to the Taviani brothers and 12 of their best known films from March 1st to 27th at the Bulgarian capital’s House of Cinema. Paolo Taviani will be on hand for the screening of “Cesare deve morire”. The event’s organisers are […]

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