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The shrewd, worldly Austrian statesman Prince Klemens von Metternich notoriously asserted in 1849 that Italy is only “a geographical expression” — that is, that it had never been a single nation and never would be one. (At the time, the Austrian empire occupied a large part of it.) Seventy-five years earlier, the great Samuel Johnson argued that a...

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A conversation with Dr. Michael Moore, May 25, 2023 at 6 PM. The IIC of Washington, in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy, invites you to attend “An American Manzoni: The New Translation of I Promessi Sposi”, a conversation with Dr. Michael Moore, renowned translator and interpreter of Italian texts, and Professor Armando Maggi, professor and...

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When: Tue, 11/22/2022 at 6:30pm - Where: Casa Italiana Zerilli - Marimò. The event will also be broadcast live on our YouTube, Facebook, and website Alessandro Manzoni (1785-1873) is the author of the first and, perhaps, still most important modern Italian novel. I promessi sposi (The Betrothed, 1827 and then, amply revised, in the 1840 definitive...

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When: Tue, 10/25/2022 - 6:30pm - Where: Casa Italiana Zerilli - Marimò - On the occasion of the publication of The Betrothed A new translation by Michael F. Moore of Alessandro Manzoni's I promessi sposi The fortunes and misfortunes of Alessandro Manzoni in Italian culture are tightly related to the writer's place in the national "canon" of literar...

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When: Thursday, October 20, 2022 at 6PM - Where: Italian Cultural Institute, 686 Park Avenue, New York - What: Author and translator Michael Moore, in conversation with journalist Gianni Riotta. A presentation of the first new English translation in fifty years, by Michael Moore, of I Promessi Sposi, the timeless masterpiece by Alessandro Manzoni (...

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When: Tue, 10/11/2022 - 7:30pm - Where: Casa Italiana Zerilli - Marimò He walked and walked, coming to farms and villages, continuing on without stopping to ask their names. Anyone who spotted a weed in a neglected field—a nice wild sorrel, say—and wanted to know whether it had come from a seed that had sprouted in the field, was blown in by the wi...

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The column keeps exploring some of the masterpieces produced by Italian literature and this one is no exception as – like the ones before – has laid the foundation for our culture, history, and language. It continues to be studied in schools and to be considered as one of the pillars of our literary treasure. The Betrothed (I Promessi Sposi), by Al...

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Today we will examine I promessi sposi (The Betrothed), one of Italy's most influential historical novels. This novel, by Alessandro Manzoni, was initially published in 1827 and was the first to be written using modern Italian language. The story, set in the northern Italian region of Lombardy, takes place between 1628 and 1630, during the Spanish...

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Nei giorni della pandemia l'America scopre Alessandro Manzoni: la prima traduzione inglese in quasi mezzo secolo dei capitoli sulla peste dei Promessi Sposi è stata messa online dal sito LitHube e la loro attualità è risuonata piùforte che mai nella conversazione virtuale tra Stefano Albertini, il direttore della Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò della...

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