Event Category: Book Presentation

Monday, May 20, 2024 at 6:30 pm

The “Italian” Angel of Central Park

• Conversation

The Story Behind One of the Most Popular NYC Icons

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Friday, April 19, 2024 at 6:30 pm

Hanging in the Balance

• Book Presentation

An Italian Journalist Contemplates the Discontent of the American Empire

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Monday, April 22, 2024 at 6:30 pm

The Caravaggio Syndrome

• Book Presentation

A Novel by Alessandro Giardino

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Wednesday, April 10, 2024 at 6:30 pm

Giordano Bruno

• Book Presentation

A new translation of ‘The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast’

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Tuesday, April 2, 2024 at 6:30 pm

Seeing Objects Across Boundaries

• Art

Gentile Bellini’s Portrait of Sultan Mehmed II

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Thursday, February 8, 2024 at 6:30 pm

The Platonist in Love

• Art

Poetry, Love and Magic in Renaissance Italy

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Monday, November 6, 2023 at 6:30 pm

Pages Ripped Out of My Skin

• History & Politics

Pier Vittorio Tondelli. The Man, His Quest, His Works

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Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 6:30 pm

Amelia Rosselli’s “Sleep”

• Art

with an introduction by Barry Schwabsky

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Thursday, November 9, 2023 at 6:30 pm

Elsa Morante’s “Lies and Sorcery”

• Literature

A new translation by Jenny McPhee

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Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 6:30 pm

The Italian Squad

• History & Politics

The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia

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Tuesday, September 26, 2023 at 6:30 pm

Viva New York

• History & Politics

Author Gianluca Galletto with Antonio Monda and Alan Patricof

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Thursday, September 21, 2023 at 6:30 pm

The Queen of Scots

• History & Politics

The first English translation of the 1628 play by Federico Della Valle

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Wednesday, September 20, 2023 at 6:30 pm

Outside In

• History & Politics

The Oral History of Guido Calabresi

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Tuesday, September 19, 2023 at 6:00 pm

Eleonora di Toledo and the Creation of the Boboli Gardens

• Art

with author Bruce Edelstein

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Thursday, April 27, 2023 at 6:30 pm

Images of Class

• Art

Operaismo, Autonomia and the Visual Arts (1962-1988)

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Friday, April 7, 2023 at 3:00 pm

Torquato Tasso and a New Theory of Epic

• History & Politics

Corrado Confalonieri’s ‘Torquato Tasso e il desiderio di unità’

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Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 6:30 pm

Neoavantgarde and Cybernetics

• Art

The Translation of Oswald Wiener’s “improvement of central europe”

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Monday, April 3, 2023 at 5:00 pm

Carlo Emilio Gadda’s “Giornale di guerra e di prigionia”

• History & Politics

In ITALIAN

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Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 6:30 pm

Neorealist Architecture

• Art

Aesthetics of Dwelling in Postwar Italy

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Monday, April 3, 2023 at 6:30 pm

Interrupted Narratives

• History & Politics

with author Caterina Romeo

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Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 6:30 pm

Against Redemption

• History & Politics

Democracy, Memory, and Literature in Post-Fascist Italy

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Monday, November 7, 2022 at 6:30 pm

Just Passing Through

• Art

A Seven-Decade Roman Holiday: The Diaries and Photographs of Milton Gendel

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Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 6:00 pm

The Betrothed

• History & Politics

A new translation by Michael Moore

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Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 6:30 pm

The Young Dante

• History & Politics

Archetypes of His Early Intellectual Biography

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Tuesday, September 20, 2022 at 6:00 pm

One Hundred Saturdays

• History & Politics

Stella Levi and the Search for a Lost World

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Wednesday, October 14, 2020 at 5:00 pm

“The Shadow King”

• History & Politics

Author Maaza Mengiste with Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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Thursday, February 27, 2020 at 7:00 pm

Dante’s Prayerful Pilgrimage

• Literature

Typologies of Prayer in the Comedy

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Tuesday, December 10, 2019 at 6:30 pm

When Our History Begins

• History & Politics

Federico Rampini’s “Quando inizia la nostra storia”

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Monday, December 16, 2019 at 6:30 pm

Rewriting Old Master Narratives in “Titian’s Touch”

• Art

Author Maria Loh in conversation with Ara H. Merjian and Jane Tylus

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Thursday, November 21, 2019 at 6:30 pm

Roma | New York 1948-1964

• Art

The Murray and Isabella Rayburn Foundation Before|After

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Wednesday, November 13, 2019 at 6:30 pm

Una meravigliosa solitudine

• History & Politics

L’arte di leggere nell’Europa moderna

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Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 6:30 pm

Vita Nuova

• History & Politics

Archeologie di un testo (Studj romanzi 2018)

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Tuesday, November 19, 2019 at 7:00 pm

Ian Thomson: Writing About Levi

• History & Politics

Primo Levi at 100

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Monday, October 28, 2019 at 6:30 pm

Italy in the Global Food System

• Gastronomy

Presenting Fabio Parasecoli’s “Food”

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Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 6:30 pm

When I Am Italian

• Italian American Issues

with author Joanna Clapps Herman

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Thursday, September 12, 2019 at 7:00 pm

The Heart of a Stranger

• History & Politics

Centro Primo Levi Readings

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Thursday, May 9, 2019 at 7:00 pm

La memoria della cenere

• Literature

with author Chiara Marchelli [In ITALIAN]

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Thursday, March 14, 2019 at 6:30 pm

Invisible Biculturalism

• Italian American Issues

“Italian” Literature in the United States

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Thursday, March 28, 2019 at 6:30 pm

House of Secrets

• Art

The Many Lives of a Florentine Palazzo

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Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 6:45 pm

Dante as Political Theorist

• History & Politics

Reading “Monarchia”

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Monday, February 4, 2019 at 6:30 pm

Non volevo diventare un boss

• Cinema

A Conversation with “Gomorrah” Star Salvatore Esposito

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Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 6:30 pm

Unworthy

• Literature

A Novel by Antonio Monda

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Friday, December 7, 2018 at 6:00 pm

Goong-Goong: From Tuscany to Shanghai

• Literature

The Story of a Chinese Patriarch Through the Eyes of His Italian Daughter-in-Law

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Wednesday, December 5, 2018 at 6:00 pm

Built with Faith

• Art

Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in New York City

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Monday, November 12, 2018 at 6:30 pm

New Italian Migrations to the United States

with Editors Laura Ruberto and Joseph Sciorra

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Friday, November 9, 2018 at 6:00 pm

Assassins Against the Old Order

• History & Politics

Italian Anarchist Violence in Fin De Siècle Europe

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Wednesday, October 24, 2018 at 6:30 pm

Moral Combat

• History & Politics

Women, Gender, and War in Italian Renaissance Literature

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Tuesday, October 16, 2018 at 6:00 pm

Enzo Ferrari

• Art

Power, Politics and the Making of an Automotive Empire

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Wednesday, October 3, 2018 at 6:30 pm

The Kremlin Ball

• History & Politics

by Curzio Malaparte

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Tuesday, September 25, 2018 at 6:30 pm

Works by Iris Origo

• History & Politics

“A Chill in the Air” and “War in Val d’Orcia”

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Thursday, September 20, 2018 at 6:00 pm

La stanza verde

• Art

Autobiografia di Sandro Manzo

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