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30 May 2012
BUDAPEST – Exhibition featuring Masaccio, Beato Angelico and Piero della Francesca

On Friday 8 June 2012 the Italian Cultural Institute in Sofia will host the opening of the exhibition on “Masaccio – Beato Angelico – Piero della Francesca. L’avventura della conoscenza”. The curator of the exhibition, Prof. Alessandro Rovetta, from Milan’s Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, will speak at the event. The exhibition, which will run […]

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28 May 2012
MADRID – The Prince of Asturie opens the Book Fair, Italy guest of honour

On 25 May the Prince of Asturia, accompanied by Princess Letizia, opened the 71st Madrid Book Fair, where Italy is this year’s guest of honour. Italian Ambassador Leonardo Visconti di Modrone welcomed the Prince at the Parque de “El Retiro” along with Spanish Minister of Culture Jose’ Ignacio Wert, President of the Book Fair Pilar […]

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28 May 2012
LIMA – Photography Exhibit on Italian emigration to Peru

The photography exhibit entitled “Italia y Peru’. Hermanados por la migracion”, organized by the Italian Cultural Institute of Lima and dedicated to Italian emigration to Peru and vice versa, comes to an end on 30 May at the Parliamentary the Peru-Italy Friendship League. The League’s president Carlos Tubino Arias Schreiber expressed his gratitude to Italian […]

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25 May 2012
WARSAW – First review of new Italian drama

On 17 and 18 May 2012 Warsaw hosted the first edition of a review of new Italian drama promoted and financed by the Italian Cultural Institute in collaboration with the Instytut Teatralny of Warsaw, an organization for the promotion and development of both Polish and foreign theatre, and with the magazine Dialog, which plans to […]

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Speeches
25 May 2012
Speech by Minister Terzi on the occasion of Africa Day (Italian only)

(valid only the actual speech delivered) Signor Presidente, Signore e Signori, desidero innanzitutto ringraziare il Signor Presidente della Repubblica per l’alto onore che ci riserva con la sua partecipazione così significativa a questo incontro annuale sull’Africa. Rivolgo il mio saluto a tutti i presenti, e in particolare al Vice Presidente del Senato, Senatore Bonino, al […]

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25 May 2012
IRAQ – Bursaries for studyi n Italy to 100 Kurdish students

Italian Ambassador to Iraq Gerardo Carante signed a university collaboration agreement on 22 May with Kurdish MInister for Education Ali Saeed providing for the complete financing by the regional government of Iraqi Kurdistan of over 100 bursaries for Kurdish masters and doctorate students to study in Italy.

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24 May 2012
EDINBURGH – Italo-Scottish research centre on bilateral relations and emigration

The Italo-Scottish Research Centre (IRSC) has been created in Edinburgh as an interdisciplinary centre for the study of Italian emigration to Scotland and bilateral relations between the two countries. The centre was promoted by the Department of Italian Studies of the University of Edinburgh, and is directed by Prof. Federica Pedriali. It operates in partnership […]

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24 May 2012
MOMENTO ITALIA-BRASILE – Caravaggio exhibition opens

Momento Italia-Brasile event is further embellished by a major exhibition of hte works of Caravaggio that opened at the “Casa Fiat de Cultura” in Belo Horizonte and will be followed by others on De Chirico, Modigliani and Imperial Rome. To read more select ITALIANO at the top of the page.

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23 May 2012
Italy in Japan 2013

Coordination is under way for “Italy in Japan 2013”, a bi-annual event promoted by the Embassy of Italy in Tokyo aimed at taking advantage of the visibility offered by the major cultural events on the calendar to strengthen economic collaboration, particularly in the energy and IT sectors. The event, hosted by the foreign ministry in […]

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23 May 2012
SHANGHAI – A prize for emerging Italian and Chinese artists

On Wednesday 23 May at 11.00 Rome’s Complesso di San Michele a Ripa hosted the first edition of the Shanghai Prize, which awards art residencies to emerging young Italian and Chinese artists. The event was sponsored by the Ministry of Cultural Assets and Activities, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Cultural Institute – Shanghai […]

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