Music of the Italian Renassaince – Recital by Simone Vallerotonda, Lute
On the occasion of the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland we present Simone Vallerotonda in Secundum Naturam, lute music from the 16th century.In the Reinassance architecture, music, poetry, theatre, and society all look to the Greek model of perfection and beauty. Nature is seen as harmony, proportion, symmetry. Man is […]
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The Invention of Italy – Pellegrino Artusi and Unification at the table
With Massimo Montanari The Invention of Italy – Food In 1891 Pellegrino Artusi published a recipe book called Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well which he would continue to work on for twenty years, with subsequent additions and amendments made with the help of his male and female readership. In part […]
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Music of the Italian Renassaince – Anemos, Wind Quintet
On the occasion of the Leonardo Da Vinci exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland we present:Anna Govetto, flute Andrea Martinella, oboe Carlo Pinardi, clarinet Paolo Armato, horn Paolo Dreosto, bassoonThe Quintetto Anemos was established in 2008 by five young musicians from the Friuli region of Italy. They set themselves the task of exploring and […]
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Max Gazzè live in Dublin
Max Gazzè is an italian bassist-songwriter and ingenious performer. He is known for his high-pitched voice. Max Gazzè is ready for the first time to get up on an Irish stage after the successful tour across Europe with Niccolò Fabi and Daniele Silvestri in 2014. Gazzè will keep on bringing his music abroad by presenting […]
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CANCELLED – Bel Canto By Candlelight
Great Operatic Queens of History It is with regret and disappointment that Lyric Opera’s Bel Canto by Candlelight has to be withdrawn due to unforeseen circumstances. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.This same concert will be presented on Sunday 8 May at the Grand Opera House Belfast at 8.00pm.
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SIS – The Society for Italian Studies presents Turning Points
Culture della transizione, della trasformazione e della trasmissione in Italia This “Turning Points” conference, with over 80 speakers, presents a rich and challenging panorama of the vitality of Italian cultural life, past, present and to come. Among the themes being highlighted are issues of gender, migration, memory, modernity, technology and history. Some sessions question disciplinary […]
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Writing Down the Rising. James Stephens and “The Insurrection in Dublin”
Launch of the First Italian Translation Enrico Terrinoni, translator, and Riccardo Michelucci, editor, will present the book along with the philosopher Giulio Giorello. Screening of a documentary (10’) on the GPO by Concetto La Malfa. Special participation of Muriel McAuley, Cumann Gaolta 1916.“James Stephens has the most vivid senses of any Irishman now writing. He […]
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Queens amused and abused: the Orlando Furioso and Ireland
Illustrated lecture, in English, by Eric Haywood, UCD Of all the knights in Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso, there is only one who does not put a foot wrong when coming to the rescue of a damsel in distress: the King of Ireland! And of all the tourist attractions in the big wide world that is the […]
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Monday at the Cinema – Girl with a Suitcase
A movie by Valerio Zurlini. Starring Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin Lorenzo, who’s 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do […]
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Settima conferenza di archeologia italiana
The conference will be held at the National University of Ireland, Galway in April 2016, as a successor to previous meetings held in Lancaster (1977), Sheffield (1980), Cambridge (1984), London (1990), Oxford (1992), and Groningen (2003). We invite participants interested in the archaeology and cultural history of Italy from prehistory to the modern period. The […]
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