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Our special guest, Italian writer Valeria Usala, in conversation with author Sara Marinelli, will present the English translation of her book, A Woman in Sardinia (La rinnegata), at the Italian Cultural Institute. The book will be released in April 2024. Penelope Aprile Zanetti will read excerpts from the book’s English translation. Event organized in collaboration with […]

CAFFÈ LETTERARIO > A WOMAN IN SARDINIA (La rinnegata)

The book chosen to inaugurate this year’s series of Caffè Letterario, our book club meetings, is A Woman in Sardinia (La rinnegata). The meeting will be held in hybrid mode, in presence at the Institute’s headquarters and online via Zoom. With the extraordinary participation of the author, the Sardinian writer Valeria Usala. Registration for the […]

art > BOTTICELLI AND THE MAKING OF VENUS

Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus is one of the great masterpieces of the Renaissance, a painting that has become synonymous with it. However, it is far from being the serene picture it is often taken to be. In today’s lecture, Prof. Emanuele Lugli (Stanford University) will go through some of the risks that Botticelli had to […]

film > THE MUTE MAN OF SARDINIA (Il muto di Gallura)

The Italian Cultural Institute is pleased to present a new series of films portraying Sardinia, a region known for its crystal-clear waters and its wild land of priceless beauty. The series opens with the film The Mute Man of Sardinia, directed by Matteo Fresi, set in the mid-nineteenth century in Gallura, the north-eastern area of […]

International Holocaust Day | TEREZÍN

To commemorate the victims and survivors of the Holocaust, the Italian Cultural Institute presents Gabriele Guidi’s Terezín, the story of Antonio, an Italian clarinetist, and Martina, a Czechoslovak violinist, as they fall in love during the World War II, in Prague. Shortly afterwards, they will be deported to the Terezín concentration camp where their love story is […]

music > PAOLO ANGELI IN CONCERT in Seattle

JAN 28 | 7:30 PM | Ballard Homestead, Seattle Sardinian guitar innovator Paolo Angeli is a musical conjurer, an artist whose imaginative leaps defy gravity. A composer, ethnomusicologist and instrument builder who draws on his deep knowledge of traditional Sardinian music, he inhabits a timeless zone as a soil-rooted master and brash experimentalist. While suffused with Mediterranean […]

music > PAOLO ANGELI IN CONCERT in Portland

JAN 27 | 8 PM | Jack London Revue, Portland Sardinian guitar innovator Paolo Angeli is a musical conjurer, an artist whose imaginative leaps defy gravity. A composer, ethnomusicologist and instrument builder who draws on his deep knowledge of traditional Sardinian music, he inhabits a timeless zone as a soil-rooted master and brash experimentalist. While suffused with […]

music > PAOLO ANGELI IN CONCERT at SFJAZZ

JAN 26 | 7 & 8:30 PM | SFJAZZ Joe Henderson Lab Sardinian guitar innovator Paolo Angeli is a musical conjurer, an artist whose imaginative leaps defy gravity. A composer, ethnomusicologist and instrument builder who draws on his deep knowledge of traditional Sardinian music, he inhabits a timeless zone as a soil-rooted master and brash experimentalist. While […]

ROBERTO TURRIN: Music & Movies

The Italian Cultural Institute San Francisco, in collaboration with the Da Vinci Society San Francisco and Vi Community, present Maestro Roberto Turrin in a piano recital with music dedicated to the world of cinema. The recital will take place at the University Auditorium of Palo Alto. Free admission | Registration required for the Jan 23rd […]

art > BOTTICELLI DRAWINGS

The Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco is pleased to host Furio Rinaldi, curator of the exhibition Botticelli Drawings at the Legion of Honor, the first exhibition ever dedicated to the drawings of Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli (ca. 1445 – 1510). During the event, the exclusive video Botticelli: Rythm of the Line will be screened. Bringing […]