Dyce and Dante: The Fortunes of ‘Francesca’
One of the most popular paintings among visitors to the Scottish National Gallery is William Dyce’s Francesca da Rimini. It portrays a moment in the doomed affair between Francesca and her brother-in-law Paolo, as narrated in ‘Canto 5’ of Dante’s Inferno, and reflects nineteenth-century fascination with the adulterous lovers and their ‘fall’. The painting’s own history […]
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Human Capital by Paolo Virzì
Coral Red by Raffaele Ottaviano and Carlo Pirozzi will precede the film Human CapitalDirector(s): Paolo Virzì Screenwriter(s): Paolo Virzì, Francesco Bruni, Francesco Piccolo Cast: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Golino, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Fabrizio Gifuni, Matilde Gioli, Giovanni Anzaldo, Guglielmo Pinelli Runtime: 109 min Rating: NR Year: 2013 This film serves up an absorbing treatise on how the […]
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Mezzotono
Small Italian Orchestra without Instruments Daniela Desideri – soprano Gaia Gentile – mezzo-soprano Fabio Lepore – tenor Marco Giuliani – baritone Andrea Maurelli – bass The small Italian orchestra, Mezzotono performs ‘acappella’, without the use of any musical instruments. The voices reproduce the different instruments (drums, percussions, electric bass, guitar and mandolin). Their repertoire goes […]
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The Voice of the Body
Luca Vullo The Voice of the Body (La voce del corpo) is a joyful, instructive perspective on that peculiar nonverbal code of communication that makes Sicilians (and Italians) famous throughout the world. The Voice of the Body is a quintessential ‘made in Sicily’ work: the film crew was made up exclusively of Sicilian professionals, and […]
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Why Language Learning Matters
Antonella Sorace XIV Settimana Della Lingua Italiana Nel Mondo This year the World Italian Language Week (Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo), has been chosen by the Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale to promote the Italian Language throughout the world focusing on the theme: Scrivere la nuova Europa: editoria italiana, autori e […]
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The Myth of Europe and other Stories
Project carried out for the Italian Semester of Presidency of the Council of EU XIV Settimana Della Lingua Italiana Nel Mondo This year the World Italian Language Week (Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo), has been chosen by the Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale to promote the Italian Language throughout the world […]
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The Earth, The Colour
Scottish International Storytelling Festival A bilingual storytelling event in Italian and English based on stories from Fiesole, teaching us the importance of including “outsiders” in our lives. The story of Silvana, an old lady who was one of the last farmers working as a sharecropper, is entwined with the story of Paolo, a painter and […]
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Ginevra degli Almieri
Love in Florence Scottish International Storytelling Festival A journey through the old streets of Florence rediscovering the life of Ginevra degli Almieri, with storyteller Giovanna Conforto and art historian Daniela Corradini. This incredible love story could be one of the sources of inspirations for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, but the roots of the legend are […]
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Seeing Stories: Symposium
Scottish International Storytelling Festival Hear about the development of story collecting and interpretative projects – and performances – in Aachen, Florence, Lisbon, Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders. With project partners from Germany, Italy, Portugal and Scotland. Free ticketed.
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I demoni di San Pietroburgo (The Demons of St. Petersburg)
Giuliano Montaldo, 2007, 118 mins Italian Cinema at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow The first programme of specially chosen films showcasing the brilliant diversity of Italian cinema. The screenings will be introduced by Dr. Pasquale Iannone of the University of Edinburgh. As he attempts to complete his latest work, the great Russian novelist Fyodor […]
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