INFINITO: A Translation Marathon
- Literature
Celebrating Leopardi’s poem with Jonathan Galassi, Luigi Ballerini, and NYU students
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Year: 2021
- Art
Fulvio Roiter: High-Rise New York
Extended through May 27, 2022!
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- Cinema & Television
Judge Guido Calabresi on “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis”
On the occasion of the world premiere of the opera “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” Music by Ricky Ian Gordon Libretto by Michael Korie Directed and choreographed by Richard Stafford Based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani
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- Cinema & Television
Judge Guido Calabresi on “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” [EXTENDED INTERVIEW]
On the occasion of the world premiere of the opera “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” Music by Ricky Ian Gordon Libretto by Michael Korie Directed and choreographed by Richard Stafford Based on the novel by Giorgio Bassani
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Tombola”
Today’s word is TOMBOLA, the traditional Christmas Italian bingo.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Focaccia”
Today’s word is FOCACCIA, the typical Italian flat-bread.
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- History & Politics
“The Best Weapon for Peace” Book Presentation
“The Best Weapon for Peace: Maria Montessori, Education, and Children’s Rights” by Erica Moretti (FIT – SUNY)
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- Cinema & Television
New York: la musa del grande cinema tra le pellicole del Novecento
La voce di New York
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Spicciare”
Today’s word is SPICCIARE, Italian for getting things done, or for hurrying up.
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- Cinema & Television
Italy on Screen Today New York 2021 Edition
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New York At the Movies
Part of the series “Le Conversazioni”
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- Casa Italiana
In seno al Dante Project di New York: l’opera oltre la Divina Commedia
La voce di New York
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Ceffo”
Today’s word is CEFFO, Italian for mug.
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- Cinema & Television
A Conversation with “El Numero Nueve” director Pablo Benedetti
Part of N.I.C.E. (New Italian Cinema Events) Film Festival
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- Cinema & Television
Dante in Silent Italian Cinema
Part of the N.I.C.E. (New Italian Cinema Events) Film Festival
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- Cinema & Television
‘El Numero Nueve’, il docu-film su Gabriel Batistuta sbarca al N.I.C.E. Festival a New York
Fiorentina.it
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- History & Politics
Martin Luther King Jr.: An “Italian” Story
Paolo Naso, Università La Sapienza, Rome Author of “Martin Luther King. Una storia americana” (Laterza, 2021)
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- Casa Italiana
‘I’m like the slut of literature’: Fran Lebowitz speaks at NYU’s Casa Italiana
Washington Square News
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Racconto”
Today’s word is RACCONTO, Italian for story or tale.
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- Art
Peter Lucas presents “Before the Close of Day”
A Q&A, following the screening of: Before the Close of Day Passages from Dante’s Purgatorio (USA, 75′)
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- Gastronomy
A Conversation with Roberto Scarcella Perino
Adventures in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Bischero”
Today’s word is BISCHERO, Italian for tuning peg, Tuscan for stupid.
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- Art
New York città che ci ripensa
RSI
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Pagliaccio”
Today’s word is PAGLIACCIO, Italian for clown.
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- Art
Namsal Siedlecki “Viandante” Exhibition at the Italian Cultural Institute
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- History & Politics
Epistole, Ecloghe, Questio: Dante’s Epistles and His Latin Works of the Last Years
The Dante Project of New York
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- Art
Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History
Book Presentation
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Tremendo”
Today’s word is TREMENDO, Italian for terrible, or horrific, and not – as one would imagine – tremendous.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Omertà”
Today’s word is OMERTÀ, the code of silence enacted by a community in the face of organized crime.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Polpettone”
Today’s word is POLPETTONE, which literally means “meatloaf,” but is also used figuratively.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Paraculo”
Today’s word is PARACULO, applied to those who cleverly look out for themselves.
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- Art
Podcast: Antonio Monda on the Exhibition “Fulvio Roiter: High-Rise New York”
La Repubblica
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Schizzo”
Today’s word is SCHIZZO, Italian for sketch, splash, and other meanings.
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- Art
NYC Parks Rededicates Dante Alighieri Statue on 700th Anniversary of the Poet’s Death
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- Canto per Canto
Inferno 29: On Contagion
Eleonora Stoppino (University of Illinois) in conversation with Alice Balestrino (University of Illinois)
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- Canto per Canto
Paradiso 11: The Untold Riches of Love
Paola Nasti (Northwestern University) in conversation with Nicolò Maldina (The University of Edinburgh)
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Zonzo”
Today’s word is ZONZO, Italian for wandering or roaming.
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- Art
New York prima di 9-11: gli scatti di Fulvio Roiter alla New York University
La voce di New York
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- Canto per Canto
Purgatorio 8: Community and Exclusion in the Valley of the Negligent Rulers
Claudia Rossignoli (University of St. Andrews) in conversation with Daragh O’Connell (University College Cork)
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- Art
“Fulvio Roiter: High-Rise New York” On View for the NYU Community
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- Canto per Canto
Inferno 9: Styx and Stones. In Honor of Mark Musa
Glenn Steinberg (The College of New Jersey) in conversation with Carolyn Scott (National Cheng Kung University)
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- Canto per Canto
Paradiso 8: Only the Good Die Young
Beatrice Arduini (University of Washington, Seattle) in conversation with Paolo Borsa (Université de Fribourg)
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- Canto per Canto
Purgatorio 17: Dante Craftsman: Poet of Justice
Adoyo (Georgetown University) in conversation with Dennis Looney (Modern Language Association)
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- Canto per Canto
Inferno 6: Gluttony, Food, and the Body Politic
Danielle Callegari (Dartmouth College) in conversation with Anna Wainwright (University of New Hampshire)
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Scena”
Today’s word is SCENA, the Italian word for scene.
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- Canto per Canto
Paradiso 9: Make Love, Make War, and Sing About It
Alberto Gelmi (The Graduate Center, CUNY) in conversation with Filippo Fabbricatore (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
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- Canto per Canto
Purgatorio 32: The Allegory of Political and Spiritual Change in Eden
Alessandro Vettori (Rutgers University) in conversation with Isabella Magni (Rutgers University)
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- Canto per Canto
Inferno 21: Comedy, Carnival, and Conduct in the Malebolge
Mary Watt (University of Florida) in conversation with Maggie Fritz-Morkin (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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- Canto per Canto
Paradiso 3: Seeing Clearly: Liquid Smiles and Gendered Sorrow
Claudia Rossignoli (University of St. Andrews) in conversation with Nora Stoppino (University of Illinois)
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