17th meeting: Purgatorio, XXVI-XXIX
A Lectura Dantis (‘reading of Dante’) is a public reading and explanation of all 100 cantos of Dante’s Divine Comedy canto by canto. Each canto of the Commedia is discussed by a different scholar, and we have a wide range of expert speakers coming to St Andrews for each meeting of the Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana […]
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RSNO Chamber Series 13:14
Baroque Fireworks The perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon with music by the great composers. They called him “the Red Priest” – and Vivaldi’s inspiration was as fiery and as brilliant as his hair. A crack team of RSNO string players launch themselves headlong at some of the most dazzling music that the Baroque […]
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The Seasons in Chianti
The Italian Cultural Institute is very pleased to collaborate with Valvona & Crolla on the exhibition “Seasons in Chianti” by Franco Franceschi. Following the opening at the Ruspoli Berlingheri Farm in Lilliano, in the area where the images were shot, the exhibition successfully toured France and Slovenia. The research includes 65–70 images, showing Siena countryside […]
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The Great Beauty
Celebrating Paolo Sorrentino The Italian Cultural Institute cordially invites you to the screening of “The Great Beauty” directed by Paolo SorrentinoJep Gambardella, a 65-year-old journalist and once promising novelist, lives his easy life among Rome’s decadent high society in a swirl of rooftop parties and late-night soirees. But when he learns of the death of […]
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The Consequences of Love
Celebrating Paolo Sorrentino The Italian Cultural Institute cordially invites you to the screening of “The Consequences of Love” written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino.Titta (Toni Servillo) is a 50-year-old man living quietly in a Swiss hotel with no occupation except smoking and drinking at the bar. But an explosive incident reveals him to be a […]
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La Merda
In Cristian Ceresoli’s critically acclaimed play, Silvia Gallerano gives a captivating performance as a ‘young’, ‘ugly’ and literally naked woman who reveals her bulimic, revolting and public secrets. She struggles with obstinacy, resistance and courage for her own celebrity breakthrough in the society of Thighs and Liberty. An electrifying study on feminism, politics, and the […]
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Ma la divisa di un altro colore
by Pietro Neglie Prof. Pietro Neglie, University of Trieste, will present his latest book: Ma la divisa di un altro colore. Two soldiers, two men, the twin souls of the Italy of their time, are protagonists in an extraordinary novel, a fusion of historical reconstruction and narrative. Spring 1915: Antonio, a peasant from Friuli, intending […]
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Rome, Open City
Showing Fri 21 Mar to Thu 27 Mar A landmark of Italian neorealism often cited as one of the greatest films ever made, Rossellini’s portrait of life under the Nazi Occupation remains remarkable for its sheer immediacy, tension and power. Made in extraordinarily straitened circumstances immediately after the liberation of Rome, the film follows engineer […]
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Salvo
Showing Fri 21 Mar to Thu 27 Mar An intelligent, distinctive spin on the gangster thriller, Salvo begins explosively, albeit traditionally, when a Mafia hitman (the eponymous ‘hero’ Salvo himself) is ambushed and decides to seek murderous revenge on the Sicilian boss who has ordered his assassination. In the process of executing his enemy, Salvo […]
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Fine-tuned Lyres & Rustic Bagpipes: Aminta (1573) and Tina (1637)
Prof Peter Brand and Dr Davide Messina Prof Peter Brand and Dr Davide Messina will make a presentation of two recent publications, joining in a well-tempered conversazione on Italian pastoral and rustic poetry. Prof Brand will illustrate his metrical translation of Torquato Tasso’s Aminta (1573) with readings and music. Aminta is a seminal play in […]
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