Today was the final day of Iran\u2019s celebration of the 21st Week of the Italian Language in the World, dedicated to the 700th anniversary of Dante\u2019s death and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leonardo Sciascia. Prizes were awarded to a group of young women, students at the universities of Teheran and Azad, winners of the competition entitled \u201cIn the Footsteps of Dante”. The celebration continued with the showing of the animated film \u201cFrom Florence to Paradise\u201d, produced by the students of the \u201cPietro Della Valle\u201d Italian school in Teheran.<\/p>\n
Representatives of the Iranian academic community, as well as Iranian and foreign students of the language of the Great Poet attended the celebratory event, which was held in the splendid Persian garden of the Ambassador\u2019s mansion in Teheran.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During the ceremony, the winners of the award \u201cIn the Footsteps of Dante\u201d received their prize from the Italian Ambassador to Teheran, Giuseppe Perrone, who launched this special new competition on the interpretation of Dante’s voyage.<\/p>\n
During the event, there was a showing of the animated film \u201cFrom Florence to Paradise\u201d, produced by the students of the Italian high school in Teheran. Starting from the city of Florence, it explored an ideal itinerary of the most significant locations of the Divine Comedy.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The students of the Italian middle and high school also participated in an online lecture by the scientist and educator Pierluigi Odifreddi on the subject of \u201cDante and mathematics\u201d. The children attending the primary school were invited to participate in a competition for graphic-pictorial production on the theme of \u201cDante\u2019s Travels\u201d presided over by the celebrated Iranian artist Khosrow Khorshidi.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Among the events held by the Italian Embassy for the 21st Week of the Italian Language in the World was also a lesson on Sciascia, with the participation of Senator Emma Bonino, and the presentation of movies based on Sciascia\u2019s works: \u201cThe Day of the Owl\u201d by Damiano Damiani (1968), and \u201cCadaveri eccellenti\u201d by Francesco Rosi (1976), based on the novel \u201cEqual Danger\u201d, written by Sciascia in 1971.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today was the final day of Iran\u2019s celebration of the 21st Week of the Italian Language in the World, dedicated to the 700th anniversary of Dante\u2019s death and the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leonardo Sciascia. Prizes were awarded to a group of young women, students at the universities of Teheran and Azad, winners […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-57921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-diplomazia-culturale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}