Students from Yale’s Institute of Sacred Music collaborate with formerly incarcerated men and women to reveal the contemporary relevance of Dante’s Divine Comedy. The performance uses music and poetry to consider the parallels between contemporary journeys out of prison and Dante’s medieval journey out of hell.
Watch the video: The Bread of Angels: Wisdom and Music Behind Bars
International Symposium Dante’s Ancestors: The Poets of the Sicilian School Intertextuality and Multiculturalism
Watch the video: Dante’s Ancestors: The Poets of the Sicilian School. Intertextuality and Multiculturalism
On the occasion of “Calvino and the Americas”
Watch the video: “Italo Calvino: The Writer in the Trees” Q&A with director Duccio Chiarini
Calvino and the Americas
Watch the video: Calvino and the Americas (Panel Discussions)
Lies and Sorcery (2023, New York Review Books)
Watch the video: Elsa Morante’s “Lies and Sorcery” presented at NYU
Book Presentation of “Ho sempre cercato tutto Pier Vittorio Tondelli: l’uomo, la ricerca, le opere” by Fr. Antonio Spadaro s.J. (Undersecretary of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education)
Watch the video: Pages Ripped Out of My Skin: Pier Vittorio Tondelli. The Man, His Quest, His Works
Book Presentation of “Sleep” (2023, New York Review Books) The English poetry of Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996)
Watch the video: Amelia Rosselli’s “Sleep” Book Presentation
In occasione della pubblicazione dell’ultimo libro di Eraldo Affinati “Delfini, vessilli, cannonate Autobiografia letteraria” (2023, HarperCollins)
Watch the video: Autobiografie letterarie: Eraldo Affinati con Chiara Marchelli
Book Presentation The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia (2023, NYU Press) by Paul Moses
Watch the video: The Italian Squad: The True Story of the Immigrant Cops Who Fought the Rise of the Mafia
Theatrical Performance Lovers’ Letters
Watch the video: Lovers’ Letters
International Conference Curzio Malaparte & the Visual Arts
Watch the video: Malaparte and the Visual Arts: Malaparte’s Cinema
An introduction to Don Primo Mazzolari by Diletta Pasetti, Rutgers University An introduction to Don Lorenzo Milani by Vanessa Roghi, historian and author
Watch the video: A Call for Disobedience: The Unexpected Revolution of Two Priests in Post-War Italy