- Art
Glamorous, Glittering Gio’! Giovanna Battaglia with Grazia D’Annunzio
Part of the series AdDRESSing Style
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- Art
Dancing Divas: Bellini’s “La Sonnambula” on Video in 1950s Italy
Part of the series “Viva Voce”
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Zerbino”
Today’s word is ZERBINO, Italian for doormat.
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- Cinema & Television
Political Theater in Italian American Theater
Laura Caparrotti, Artistic Director, KIT – Kairos Italy Theater in conversation with Frank J. Avella, playwright Marcella Bencivenni, CUNY Excerpts read by Giacomo Rocchini and Mario Merone, KIT
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Bizza”
Today’s word is BIZZA, Italian for a tantrum.
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- Art
Reimagining the Archives & Centering Black Histories
Part of the series Virtual Salons: Discourses on Black Italia
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Formicolìo”
Today’s word is FORMICOLIO, Italian for a “swarm” or a “tingling sensation.”
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- History & Politics
Domesticating the Tenth Muse: Myths of Female Voice and Enlightened Progress in 1790s Italy
A talk by Jessica Gabriel Peritz (Yale University) Respondent: Shane Butler (Johns Hopkins University) Co-sponsored by Medieval and Renaissance Center at NYU Moderated by Eugenio Refini (NYU)
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Ottimo”
Today’s word is OTTIMO, Italian for “great,” or “optimal.”
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- History & Politics
La Marchesa Colombi and the Free Women of Late 19th-Century Italy
Antonia Arslan, writer in conversation with Maria Teresa Cometto (Author of La Marchesa Colombi: Vita, romanzi e passioni della prima giornalista del Corriere della Sera)
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Tamarro”
Today’s word is TAMARRO, Italian for something or someone with very bad taste or vulgar.
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- History & Politics
Political Theater in Italian Theater
Laura Caparrotti (KIT- Kairos Italy Theater) interviews Davide Enia, Marco Martinelli, Marco Paolini, and Giorgina Pi.
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