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After more than 700 years, Dante Alighieri's masterpiece, the Divine Comedy continues to inspire writers, artists, painters and directors who find in its pages an unlimited source of inspiration reinterpreting such a classic of the literature with a modern and contemporary twist. Also Hollywood is not immune to the Divine Comedy timeless charm as (...

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Una lunga serie di eventi tra mostre, letture, convegni, conferenze, concerti e spettacoli teatrali che si snoderanno tra Ravenna, Firenze, Verona e Roma. Un programma ricco ed articolato, animato dai principali protagonisti della scena culturale italiana, dall'Accademia della Crusca alla Società Dante Alighieri.   L'Italia celebra il genio...

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É stata la Dante Alighieri di New York a invitare e portare lo scorso 16 ottobre Robert Pinsky alla Scuola Guglielmo Marconi di New York per la settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo e per le celebrazioni dell'anno della cultura italiana negli USA. Pinsky è uno dei maggiori poeti americani del nostro tempo.   È stato nominato dal Congress...

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APRIL 28, 2015 (06:30 PM )Casa Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street - New York, NY 10011Dante and Heterodoxy.  The Temptations of 13th Century Radical Thought(Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014). Edited and with an introduction by Maria Luisa Ardizzone. Conclusion by Teodolinda Barolini   Dante and Heterodoxy:...

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di Eleonora Puntillo   «Il bisnonno sarà contento: l'Inferno l'ho stampato prima a dispense poi in volume, e ci ho guadagnato pure, il Purgatorio l'ho depositato in Siae e fra poco lo stampo, col Paradiso sono arrivata al canto ottavo e vado avanti spedita...».   Dall'alto dei suoi 93 anni, Matilde nata Pierro e coniugata Donnarumma,...

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To celebrate the 750th anniversary of Dante's birth the Georgetown University Italian Research Institute, the Georgetown University Italian Department, and the Embassy of Italy, are sponsoring a recital of Dante's cantos related to science.   Riccardo Pratesi, from the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy, will recite the cantos in Italian and c...

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2015 will mark the 750th anniversary of the birth of Dante Alighieri in 1265, and the 31st year since the first Lectura Dantis Newberrania.   This lecture examines Dante’s description of the shape, motion, size, color, and configuration of the three giri (“rounds”) of the Trinity in Paradiso 33.115-120, in order to envision what the Pilgrim...

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Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago. Thursday, October 22, 2015 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (CDT)Chicago, IL. "Dante and the Limits of the Law", a book presentation by Professor Justin Steinberg, University of Chicago with the participation of Emanuele Coccia, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris"Dante and the L...

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Dante Alighieri was a writer, a poet, a political figure and an innovative artist. During his time, he was famous, yet his true and wide fame came after his death. If you google his name, it is surprising how much you find and of what nature.   Dante and the Divine Comedy has inspired the most different and sometime weird kind of things over...

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It's back to school season and the time for self improvement is ripe. If you've always wanted to try your tongue at the bella lingua now is the time. "Strike while the iron is hot!" as the Americans say. And the good news for you, dear lingual blacksmith, is that the Bay Area has a plethora of options for you to develop and hone your Italian skills...

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