Accademia Verdiana in New York
- Music
Young Artists Recital
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Topic: Italian Society
- Fashion
Valerie Steele on Capitals of Fashion
Dr. Valerie Steele, Director, The Museum at F.I.T. in conversation with Grazia d’Annunzio, Università Statale di Milano. December 13, 2019
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- Economy & Finance
Federico Rampini presents “Quando inizia la nostra storia”
The author and journalist in conversation with Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU). December 10, 2019
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Scartabellare”
Today’s word is SCARTABELLARE, meaning “getting through paperwork.”
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- History & Politics
A Conversation with Mimmo Lucano
Presented in collaboration with BACAS – Borghi Antichi Cultura Arti e Scienze
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- History & Politics
Terra Matta (with Stefano Panzeri)
Presented by In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY Fall Edition
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Coccio”
Today’s word is COCCIO, meaning a piece or fragment of pottery.
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- History & Politics
“E’ stato il vento”: come si rilancia il modello Riace inventato da Mimmo Lucano
La voce di New York
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Cappuccino”
Today’s word is CAPPUCCINO, the espresso + milk froth combo.
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- History & Politics
Empire’s Mobius Strip: Italy’s Migrant Crisis Today and Its Colonial Past
La voce di New York
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- Gastronomy
Stefano Albertini on Italian-Americans and Food on “Italics”
Italics, Television for the Italian American Experience is a monthly presentation in the CUNY Presents timeslot that features prominent Italian Americans in the arts, business, government, sports, academia, and more. Each episode explores various aspects of the Italian diaspora, Italian-American history and traditions, contemporary Italian-American life, and takes a projected look at the future of the Italian-American community.
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- Italian Society
Joanna Clapps Herman’s “When I Am Italian”
Author Joanna Clapps Herman presents When I Am Italian (2019, SUNY Press) with writers Mary Ann Carolan, Maria Laurino, Edvige Giunta, and Nancy Carnevale. With the participation of Michela Musolino. November 7, 2019
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- History & Politics
Where Evil Leans Hard on Good
Author of Empire’s Mobius Strip Stephanie Malia Hom discusses Italy’s migrant detention centers and colonial concentration camps, with Ruth Ben-Ghiat (NYU). November 4, 2019
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Passeggiata”
Today’s word is PASSEGGIATA, meaning “a stroll.”
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Sfogo”
Today’s word is SFOGO, meaning “venting,” “flowing into,” or “rash.”
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- Art
Melissa McGill presents Red Regatta
Organized and presented by Save Venice. A lecture by artist Melissa McGill. October 22, 2019
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Allegria”
Today’s word is ALLEGRIA, meaning “happiness.”
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Campana”
Today’s word is CAMPANA, Italian for “bell” or “church bell.”
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Ghetto”
Today’s word is GHETTO, from the Italian “getto.”
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Merenda”
Today’s word is MERENDA, Italian for “afternoon snack.”
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- History & Politics
Arbëreshë, an ‘Anthropological Miracle’
i-Italy
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- History & Politics
Arbëreshë (Peppa Marriti Band)
The Italo-Albanian Communities of Southern Italy
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Campare”
Today’s word is CAMPARE, Italian for “to live” or “to survive.”
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Contadino”
Today’s word is CONTADINO, Italian for a peasant.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Sbattimento”
Today’s word is SBATTIMENTO, meaning an annoyance.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Bagnomaria”
Today’s word is BAGNOMARIA, the practice of preparing something in a pot by placing it within a larger pot of boiling water.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Allora”
Today’s word is ALLORA, literally “at that time,” but now enriched by many different meanings.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Delirare”
Today’s word is DELIRARE, which means “to go crazy.”
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Mah”
Today’s word is MAH, an expressive syllable that is erroneously translated as “well.”
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Dialetto”
Today’s word is DIALETTO, Italian for dialect.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Selva”
Today’s word is SELVA. Italian for wilderness, or a dense wood.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Farlocco”
Today’s word is FARLOCCO, Italian for a thief or a forgery.
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- Cinema & Television
Open Roads alla NYU: i registi temono le politiche del governo e amano Scorsese
La voce di New York
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Estro”
Today’s word is ESTRO, the creative surge needed when searching for inspiration.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Magnifico”
Today’s word is MAGNIFICO, “magnificent” in Italian, also used to address presidents of universities.
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- Economy & Finance
Landscape Design and Gardens Through the Evolution of Homo Sapiens
A lecture by Jonathan Fargion. On the occasion of a party for i-Italy.org with the participation of the Italian Chef Association of New York (AICNY). May 17, 2019
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- Art
The Etruscans: Who Were They?
A lecture by Francesco Bonavita, Ph.D. Presented by the American Italian Cultural Roundtable. May 16, 2019
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- Economy & Finance
A Conversation with Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala
Milan Mayor Giuseppe Sala in conversation with Stefano Albertini (NYU). May 16, 2019
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- History & Politics
Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna
Book presentation of Alessandra Belloni’s Healing Journeys with the Black Madonna, featuring a performance by Belloni and a talk by Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox. May 15, 2019
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Sprovvisto”
Today’s word is SPROVVISTO, that can mean something that is missing, but can also be used in a sentence to underline surprise.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Faccendiere”
Today’s word is FACCENDIERE, Italian for a hustler or a lobbyist, used mostly in political circles.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Figuraccia”
Today’s word is FIGURACCIA, Italian for a gaffe or for making a fool of oneself.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Salve”
Today’s word is SALVE, an Italian greeting that can be used in both formal and colloquial settings.
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- History & Politics
The Neapolitan Language and Its “Accademia”
Massimiliano Verde, Accademia Napoletana, in conversation with journalist Angela Vitaliano. April 25, 2019
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- Art
Virgil’s Aeneid and the Destiny of Italy
A lecture by NYU Professor of Classics Alessandro Barchiesi. April 24, 2019
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Vignarola”
Today’s word is VIGNAROLA, a dish originating from the Roman vineyards.
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- Art
Curating Fascism
Exhibiting Art in Collapsing Democracies. A lecture by Raffaele Bedarida (Cooper Union). April 18, 2019
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- History & Politics
Verso Nuova York
Stories and Music of the Italian Migration. Featuring Elena Buttiero (piano) and Ferdinando Molteni (vocals, guitar). Presented with the Associazione Liguri nel Mondo. April 17, 2019
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Terrone”
Today’s word is TERRONE, a racial slur aimed at people from the southern end of the country.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Nepotismo”
Today’s word is NEPOTISMO, like its English equivalent “nepotism” it finds historic roots in the Italian peninsula.
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- Cinema & Television
Michele Cinque presents “Iuventa”
Director Michele Cinque presents his 2018 documentary Iuventa in conversation with Stefano Albertini (NYU). Introduced by David Forgacs (NYU). March 29, 2019
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Aperitivo”
Today’s word is APERITIVO, the Italian cocktail accompanied by food.
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- History & Politics
LGBTQ in Italian-American Theater
Part of Rainbow Jubilee: 50 Years from the Stonewall Uprising and of LGBTQ Liberation.
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- History & Politics
Extraordinary Aliens
A play written and starring Flavia Sgoifo, Arianna Wellmoney and Bianca Waechter, followed by a conversation with the cast and immigration lawyer Nicola Tegoni. March 15, 2019
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Codesto”
Today’s word is CODESTO, a rare Italian pronoun.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Banca”
Today’s word is BANCA, Italian for “bank.”
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Simpatico”
Today’s word is SIMPATICO, a difficult word to translate that means a combination of someone’s niceness, sympathy, pleasantness, etc.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Sprezzatura”
Today’s word is SPREZZATURA, indicating the nonchalanche necessary to make something difficult appear easy.
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- Cinema & Television
LGBTQ in Italian Theater
Commemorating 50 years from the Stonewall uprising, Kairos Italy Theater presents an evening dedicated to Italian LGBTQ theater, featuring Laura Caparrotti, Mario Merone, Gianmarco Colucci, Alice Lussiana Parente, and Giacomo Rocchini, with historical remarks by Matthew Zundel (NYU) and Brian DeGrazia (NYU). February 25, 2019
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Struggimento”
Today’s word is STRUGGIMENTO, literally and figuratively signifying something that falls apart or melts away.
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- Cinema & Television
Presentation of “It Will Be Chaos”
Directors Lorena Luciano and Filippo Piscopo in conversation with David Forgacs (NYU). February 8, 2019
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- Art
Pasolini: Framed and Unframed
A panel featuring: David Forgacs, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Italian Studies, NYU Ara H. Merjian, Associate Professor, Dept. of Italian Studies, NYU Luca Peretti, Visiting Assistant Professor in Italian, Ohio State University Karen Pinkus, Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature, Cornell University Karen Raizen, Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, Bard College
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Campanilismo”
Today’s word is CAMPANILISMO, the Italian tradition of preferring one’s home town (and its belltower) to any other place.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Schifo”
Today’s word is SCHIFO, meaning “disgusting.”
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- Cinema & Television
Salvatore Esposito: «Da Genny Savastano a Capitan America, il mio sogno a New York»
Corriere del Mezzogiorno
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- Cinema & Television
Salvatore Esposito racconta la sua “Gomorra” alla New York University
La Repubblica
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- Cinema & Television
Il Genny di Gomorrah a New York si “pente”: “Non volevo diventare un boss”
La voce di New York
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- Cinema & Television
Salvatore Esposito Star in America. Mi Candido per Hollywood
ANSA
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Rivale”
Today’s word is RIVALE, or – in English – “rival.”
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Parole Parole: “Cornuto”
Today’s word is CORNUTO, literally meaning “cuckold,” but colloquially used as an insult more similar to “son of a bitch.”
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Parole Parole: “Bufala”
Today’s word is BUFALA, meaning a female buffalo, but used mostly to describe fake news.
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- History & Politics
L’altra Saint Patrick
Casa Italiana Director Stefano Albertini presents the Old St. Patrick Basilica for Rai’s TG2 Dossier.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Zabaione”
Today’s word is ZABAIONE, an egg-based dessert, typical for the holiday season.
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Parole Parole: “Anzi”
Today’s word is ANZI, an untranslatable Italian word, somewhere between “on the contrary” and “furthermore.”
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- Cinema & Television
Ara Merjian introduces “Bicycle Thieves”
In conjunction with the exhibition “NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960,” an introduction by Ara Merjian, NYU. December 6, 2018
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- Art
Joseph Sciorra presents “Built With Faith”
On the occasion of the paperback release of “Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in New York City” by Joseph Sciorra (CUNY). December 5, 2018
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- Cinema & Television
Presentation of “Quanto Basta”
As part of the 28th edition of New Italian Cinema Events (N.I.C.E.), a Q&A with director Francesco Falaschi, in conversation with Stefano Albertini (NYU), on the occasion of the screening of “Quanto Basta.” December 4, 2018
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Figurati”
Today’s word is FIGURATI, an Italian single-word expression signifying contradiction and disbelief.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Bottega”
Today’s word is BOTTEGA, an Italian word with multiple meanings relating to storage and schooling.
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Neorealism has Never Been this New… Interview with the ADMIRA-ble Enrica Viganò
The Digital Poet
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Chitarra”
Today’s word is CHITARRA, Italian word for “guitar,” but also a type of pasta.
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- History & Politics
New Italian Migrations to the United States
A book presentation by editors Joseph Sciorra (CUNY) and Laura Ruberto (Berkeley City College). November 12, 2018
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- Art
Panel presentation of “Far From Us”
A conversation with Elena A. Perazzini. Moderated by Paolo Pellecchia (CUNY). With the participation of Gianluca Galletto (DG Advisors), scientist Alessandra Luchini, researcher Roberta Marongiu, and artist Paolo Pelosini. November 7, 2018
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Cencioso”
Today’s word is CENCIOSO, Italian for “ragged.”
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- Cinema & Television
Emanuele Caruso presents “La terra buona”
Director Emanuele Caruso in conversation with Stefano Albertini (NYU) following a screening of La terra buona. October 29, 2018
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Volentieri”
Today’s word is VOLENTIERI, Italian for “willingly” or “with pleasure.”
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- Art
Moral Combat: Women, Gender, and War in the Italian Renaissance
Book Presentation with author Gerry Milligan (CUNY) in conversation with Virginia Cox (NYU) and Clare Carroll (CUNY). Moderated by Jane Tylus (Yale). October 24, 2018.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Acuto”
Today’s word is ACUTO, the word for “sharp” and for a “high-note”.
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- Art
NeoRealismo Review in Collector Daily
Collector Daily
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- Art
NeoRealismo Review in PhotographMag
Photograph Magazine
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- Cinema & Television
Vito Adriaensens presents “Il Fauno” and “Screening Statues”
Vito Adriaensens (Columbia University) presents a screening of Febo Mari’s Il fauno (1917) and the publication of Screening Statues. A Q&A with musician Tal Shtuhl. October 19, 2018.
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- Cinema & Television
Stefano Albertini introduces “Rome Open City”
In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932-1960, Prof. Stefano Albertini introduces Roberto Rossellini’s masterpiece from 1945. October 18, 2018
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- History & Politics
When the American Press Flirted with Fascism
Mauro Canali in conversation with Ruth Ben-Ghiat and Alexander Stille for the presentation of La scoperta dell’Italia. October 17, 2018.
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- History & Politics
Presentation of “Enzo Ferrari” with author Luca Dal Monte
Enzo Ferrari: Power, Politics, and the Making of an Automotive Empire author Luca Dal Monte in conversation with Stefano Albertini (NYU). October 16, 2018.
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Don”
Today’s word is DON, a common title of honor in Italy.
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- History & Politics
A New Italian Narrative
Vincenzo Boccia, President of Confindustria, in conversation with Letizia Airos (i-Italy). October 11, 2018.
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- History & Politics
Anthony Hecht’s Italian Journey
In collaboration with the Bogliasco Foundation. A lecture by David Yezzi, Johns Hopkins University. Introduced by Laura Harrison, President of the Bogliasco Foundation. October 10, 2018.
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