Yangon: Burmese students make a video on Dante
The Italian Embassy in Yangon is also taking part in the Week of the Italian Language in the World, involving young Burmese people. About 30 young people, more than half beginners in the study of the Italian language, have made five videos dealing with their encounter with Dante, made possible thanks to the first-ever translation […]
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Italian Language Week, between shows and books in The Netherlands
On the Italian Cultural Institute of Amsterdam initiative, a rich programme of events is underway to celebrate the 21st Italian Language Week in the world, which takes place from 18 to 24 October. Events that have already begun in recent weeks and will also be held in the coming months. Among the upcoming initiatives is […]
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Belo Horizonte: Dante’s Italian and its musicality
The musical nature of the Italian language expressed in the Divine Comedy has inspired a number of cultural events organised by the Italian Consulate in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on the occasion of the Week of the Italian Language in the World. The first event, entitled “Music revolving around… Dante”, is a performance of theatre and […]
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Language Week: “Conversations in the square” in Brussels
“Conversazioni in piazza” is the title of a series of meetings, organized by the Embassy of Italy and the Italian Cultural Institute in Brussels, that began the “Week of the Italian Language in the World ” from 18 -24 October. The protagonists are Italian journalists and essayists who will converse with exponents of the Belgian […]
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Videoconferences and short films, Tunis celebrates Dante
A rich program of events will celebrate “Dante, the Italian”, on the occasion of the 21st edition of Italian Language Week in the world, organized by the Italian Institute of Culture in Tunis. The events will be held for audiences and online on the Facebook page and on the YouTube channel of the Institute, produced in collaboration, […]
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Buenos Aires: talking about Dante and his influence on Borges
A conference entitled “Dante, Italian and Argentina”, organised by the Embassy of Italy and the Dante Alighieri Society of Buenos Aires, opened the 21st Week of the Italian Language of the World in Argentina. “More than 80,000 students, six bilingual schools, and 100 Dante Alighieri committees underline the importance of the Italian language in Argentina”, […]
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Bahrein, lecture on the poetics of Dante for the Italian Language Week
The Italian Embassy in Manama has announced that today, at 10:30 Italian time, an online lecture will be held on the figure of Beatrice, a symbol of spiritual love and poetic inspiration described by Dante, by Leyla Livraghi, a collaborator of the Dante Network Hypermedia Project of the Department of Philology, Literature and Linguistics of […]
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Minsk: learning Italian diction by reading Dante
Dante Alighieri will be the protagonist of the 21st edition of the Italian Language Week in Minsk with the lessons-performance of Prof. Matteo Spiazzi from the University of Verona. Prof. Spiazzi will involve young students of Italian from the Belarusian universities in a training workshop dedicated to diction, correct pronunciation and reading aloud 3 Cantos […]
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SG Sequi at the presentation of “The Church and Italian”
The Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ettore Francesco Sequi, spoke today at the presentation of the book “The Church and Italian: a journey through time and the world” at the invitation of the Italian Ambassador to the Holy See, Pietro Sebastiani. The initiative was held at Palazzo Borromeo, in Rome, as part of […]
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Zagabria: Italian language students awarded
On the occasion of the 21st Italian Language Week, the Italian Institute of Culture in Zagabria held an award ceremony for three separate competitions: the national Italian language competition for 2021, organized by the Croatian National Agency for the Education and Instruction of Students in the primary, middle and high schools; the Italian Language Week […]
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