Variations on the Quartet
- Music
Casa Afternoons
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Year: 2020
- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Fiasco”
Today’s word is FIASCO, Italian for “flask” and used everywhere to mean “failure.”
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- Cinema & Television
Zavattini in Latin America: Italian Neorealism in Cuba, México and Argentina
Broadcast from October 8, 2020
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- Art
A Walk with the Director: FLORENCE – Piazza Santo Spirito
Casa Italiana Director Stefano Albertini takes us on a walking tour of the “coolest” square in Florence.
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- Canto per Canto
Inferno 15: Dante Among the Sodomites
Peter Hawkins (Yale) in conversation with Gary Cestaro (DePaul University)
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- Canto per Canto
Paradiso 23: Preview of the Finale
Fr. James Torrens in conversation with Brenda Schildgen (University of California Davis)
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Birbante”
Today’s word is BIRBANTE, Italian for naughty.
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- Art
Malaparte’s “Diary of a Foreigner in Paris”
Live broadcast from June 17, 2020
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- Art
“Brava Gente:” Italian Colonial Legacies and Historical Constructions of Race
Virtual Salons: Discourses on Black Italia In collaboration with NYU Florence
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- Canto per Canto
Purgatorio 19: Stasis and Motion: False and True Images
Olivia Holmes (Binghamton University) in conversation with Véronique Plesch (Colby College)
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- Art
A Walk with the Director: FLORENCE – Piazza del Duomo
Casa Italiana Director Stefano Albertini takes us on a walking tour of the square that houses Florence’s cathedral.
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- Canto per Canto
Inferno 27: An Offer He Couldn’t Refuse
Ron Herzman (SUNY Geneseo) in conversation with Bill Stephany (The University of Vermont)
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Gnorri”
Today’s word is GNORRI, Italian for someone willfully playing dumb.
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