film > DANTE’S INFERNO (L’Inferno di Dante)
As we celebrate our return to hosting live, in-person events, the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco is pleased to welcome our community to this special screening free of charge. We hope you’ll join us in celebrating the spirit of hope and wonder Dante so beautifully captures in the final verse of the Inferno: E […]
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webinar > THE RENAISSANCE OF PASTEL
THE RENAISSANCE OF PASTEL A Zoom presentation by Furio Rinaldi and Laura Da Rin Bettina November 9 | 11:00 am PST Invented and refined in the early sixteenth century, and achieving widespread popularity and usage in the eighteenth century, the pastel is one of the most expressive and adaptable media in art history, surviving nearly […]
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live presentation > BEHIND ROSALBA’S PASTELS | A conversation with Xavier F. Salomon and Furio Rinaldi
Behind Rosalba’s Pastels | A conversation with Xavier F. SalomonSaturday, November 6, 2021, 11 am-12:00 pm (PT) Rosalba Carriera‘s pastels captured the essence of her time: sophisticated, mundane, and seductive. Her success, and exceptional admission in the Académie Royal of Paris in 1720, paved the way for women artists of the following generations. Illustrating […]
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presentation > DANTE’S DIVINE AND COMIC 700th ANNIVERSARY
21st Annual Week of Italian Language in the World Join Humanities West in person at The Commonwealth Club, or via livestream, to celebrate the 700th Anniversary of Dante’s death with a two-hour, three-lecture Dante feast: • Timothy Hampton on “Dante After Dante: the Forms of Memory.” Though there were many “in the know” about the […]
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art exhibit > GIANCARLO and GIOVANNI CERRI
Giancarlo Cerri | The Abstract Sequences. 1995-2005 Giovanni Cerri | 2020: Milan in the Hour of the Wolf Giancarlo Cerri Photo credit Roanna Weiss Giovanni Cerri Photo credit Alfredo Felletti Giancarlo and Giovanni Cerri’s exhibition juxtaposes the work of a father and a son—two Milanese artists who differ greatly in their themes […]
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webinar > Dante’s American Afterlife: A Presentation by Guy P. Raffa
21st Annual Week of Italian Language in the World Dante’s American fame has grown unabated since his arrival in the 19th century. The poet’s presence has been felt in books, music, and classrooms, on canvases, pedestals, and stages, and, increasingly of late, on movie, television, and gaming screens. This Dantemania largely owes to how his […]
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book presentation > Gianrico Carofiglio presents “Three O’Clock in the Morning” (2021)
21st Annual Week of Italian Language in the World Gianrico Carofiglio presents the English edition of his novel Le tre del mattino (Einaudi 2017), during an online tour coordinated by the IIC Los Angeles on the occasion of the 21st Annual Week of Italian Language in the World. Antonio is on the brink of adulthood, still figuring […]
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XXI Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo
XXI Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo 18-24 ottobre 2021 DANTE, L’ITALIANO In occasione del 700° anniversario della morte del Sommo Poeta La XXI Settimana della lingua italiana nel mondo si svolgerà dal 18 al 24 ottobre 2021 e avrà come tema DANTE, L’ITALIANO (DANTE, The Italian) in occasione del 700° anniversario della morte del […]
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virtual exhibit > DANTE PLUS 700 USA
21st Annual Week of Italian Language in the World Dante is perhaps the best known poet in the world, and the Divine Comedy has certainly influenced the imagination of every generation that has come after it. The work of Il Sommo Poeta (the Supreme Poet) endures across space and time, remaining very much alive in […]
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book > ACCADEMIA DELLA CRUSCA: DANTE, L’ITALIANO
XXI EDIZIONE DELLE SETTIMANA DELLA LINGUA ITALIANA NEL MONDO Come ogni anno, l’Accademia della Crusca ha predisposto un volume dedicato al tema della Settimana, “Dante, l’italiano”, che potrà essere scaricato gratuitamente, nel periodo fra il 18 e il 24 ottobre, al seguente link: http://www.goware-apps.com/dante-litaliano-giovanna-frosini-giuseppe-polimeni-cura/ A partire dal 25 ottobre il volume sarà disponibile unicamente a […]
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