The Week of the Italian Language in the World is an event promoted yearly by the cultural and diplomatic network in the third week of October. It focuses on a theme that acts as the leitmotif of a vast cultural programme to promote the diffusion of the Italian language. The initiative was launched in 2001 through the joint action of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation and the Accademia della Crusca, which was subsequently joined by the Swiss Confederation, where Italian is one of the country's official languages. This success story is due to the growing engagement of the Italian and Italian-speaking communities abroad, along with local cultural institutions and a host of writers, poets, artists, teachers and academics who have passionately enlivened all the past editions by taking part in hundreds of conferences, meetings, lectures, refresher courses, thus opening a cultural and intercultural dialogue with other writers, artists, intellectuals and representatives of civil society in a large number of Countries.
The XXI Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo is dedicated to "Dante, l'Italiano".
Under the High Patronage of the President of the Republic
14 October 2021
Launch event by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
The opening event of the 21st edition of the Week of the Italian Language in the World. The festival, under the High patronage of the President of the Republic, is a yearly worldwide celebration of the Italian language and creativity.
14 October 2021
Promotional video of the XXI Settimana della Lingua Italiana nel Mondo in the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri death. Conceived and produced by the Salone Internazionale del Libro di Torino on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
18 - 24 October
"Dante, l' Italiano" by Giovanna Frosini, Giuseppe Polimeni (a cura di)
Free Download HERE: (only available for free from 18 - 24 October)
Created by Accademia della Crusca in collaboration with Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale
The Italian Institute of Culture has organized the following events:
21-22 October 2021
Calligraphy Workshop with Monica Dengo
The Institute is pleased to invite artist Monica Dengo to host the calligraphy workshop: From the Time of Dante Alighieri to the Contemporary. Practising an art of line and rhythm.
This online workshop will focus on the evolution from the bastard hand from a Divina Commedia manuscript into a cancelleresca, which is the foundation of our modern cursives.
26 October 2021
Geronimo Stilton racconta Dante
Geronimo Stilton will be traveling to Dublin first and then Edinburgh and London to meet young readers for an afternoon full of magic stories!
Have you ever heard of the fabumouse mouse-reporter Geronimo Stilton created by Italian children's book author, Elisabetta Dami? Do not miss the opportunity to meet Geronimo, the publisher of The Rodent's Gazzette, Mouse Island's most famouse newspaper, at the Institute!
