Opening of the exhibition “Leonardo, the kind genius”
2019 marks the 500th anniversary of the death of Leonardo Da Vinci, the great Renaissance master and polymath. The exhibition Leonardo. Il genio gentile, created by Stefano Baldi and first launched in the Embassy of Italy in Sofia, provides a captivating overview of Leonardo’s life and works, from the key innovations he introduced in his […]
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Italian Fusion Festival 2019 ¦ Jazz & Prosecco Edition
The Italian Fusion Festival is the biggest Italian festival in Europe. The third edition will take place on the 13th of July 2019 from 7pm until late at BelloBar, Portobello Harbour, Dublin. The multicultural and multidisciplinary arts festival is organised by Radio Dublino, the only Irish Radio programme in Italian, running since 2013. The festival […]
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Dublin Dante Summer School // An Opera on Dante’s life – with Patrick Cassidy
In 2000, film producers Dino and Martha De Laurentiis asked Irish composer Patrick Cassidy to write an aria for an opera that did not exist. The subject: Dante’s love for Beatrice, as expressed in La Vita Nuova. The resulting aria, “Vide cor meum”, was featured in a pivotal scene in Ridley Scott’s film Hannibal. It […]
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Dublin Dante Summer School // Dante for Everyone? Money, greed and (Dante’s) Hell – with Catherine Dunne and Paolo di Paolo
A conversation about the possibility to approach Dante’s texts from different cultures, ages, and languages in spite (and perhaps because) of its apparent distance from today’s world. Are adaptations and translations reliable instruments to experience a text that is certainly medieval, but has achieved a surprisingly solid afterlife? Is the plot (the “libretto”) of Dante’s […]
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Dublin Dante Summer School // Fatti non foste a viver come bruti – Vittorio Sermonti: a voice for Dante’s Commedia
Between 1987 and 1992 the novelist, translator and Dante scholar Vittorio Sermonti recorded his readings of Dante’s Divina Commedia, accompanied by 100 critical essays on linguistic, historical and philosophical aspects of the text. Vittorio Sermonti would then read Dante’s masterpiece for audiences of different ages and backgrounds (including Pope John Paul II himself), in awe-inspiring […]
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An Italian Bloomsday // Love’s Old Sweet Songs: Italian Opera in Joyce’s Ulysses
A concert curated by John McCourt featuring a selection of classic Italian opera and some Irish airs and excerpts from ballad opera, central to Joyce’s Ulysses. With Ilaria Zanetti (soprano), Alessandro Cortello (tenor), and Alessandra Sagelli Caoduro (piano). Introductions illustrating the importance of the arias within Ulysses will be given by Professor John McCourt (University […]
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An Italian Bloomsday // Scherzarade. Parole infinibili alla fine di Finnegans Wake
Fabio Pedone and Enrico Terrinoni, self-defined “strangelators”, recently published their Italian translation of the last volume of the “untranslatable” Finnegans Wake. Together with journalist Edoardo Camurri, they will explore the phantasmagoric imagery of a nocturnal novel which is both a charade and a Sheherazade, with its dream-like storytelling and its unique tangle of puns and […]
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Books and substances: LSD and Finnegans Wake in conversation – with Agnese Codignola and Edoardo Camurri
What could possibly be the connection between Finnegans Wake and lysergic acid dyethilamide (better known as LSD)? This combination is only apparently extravagant, as Joyce was indeed a major reference author for the psychedelic subculture of the 1960s; as Marshall McLuhan once said, “LSD is the lazy man’s Finnegans Wake”. Chemist Agnese Codignola and journalist […]
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From page to screen: on book-to-films adaptations – with Giancarlo De Cataldo
Giancarlo De Cataldo is a novelist, essayist, and the author of numerous screenplays for TV, as well as a judge on the circuit court of Rome. He is best known as the author of the bestselling novel Romanzo Criminale (based on the true story of the mob known as Banda della Magliana) and as the […]
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Look at Italy! Photography and social history in the 20th Century – with Manuela Fugenzi
This talk by Prof. Manuela Fugenzi, journalist and photo editor, is accompanied by a series of compelling images from the twentieth century, shot by some of the greatest photographers of the era. It is a journey into the past and the present which will reflect on the meaning of Italian identity thanks to the medium […]
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