Lunedì al Cinema – I Vicerè
Film in Italian with English subtitles Directed by Roberto Faenza. With: Alessandro Preziosi, Lando Buzzanca, Cristiana Capotondi, 120’. I Vicerè is a 2007 Italian historical drama based on the novel with the same title written by Federico De Roberto. The story is set in Sicily in 1800. The Uzeda family fights to remain in […]
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Aspects of intercultural communication between Italy and Asia – with Roberto Bertoni
A book presentation by Roberto Bertoni (TCD).In English.Introduction by Professor Mark Chu (Head of Italian at University College Cork). This book is inspired by an interest in Asia, multiculturalism, globalization, hybridization, and intercultural communication and transmission. Roberto Bertoni (TCD) is an Italianist rather than an Asianist, and therefore the perspective adopted is mostly, but not […]
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Lunedì al Cinema – Gli amici del bar Margherita
Directed by Pupi Avati. With Diego Abatantuono, Laura Chiatti, 90’. Film in Italian with English subtitles. Bologna, 1954. The mythical Bar Margherita and its eccentric, male-only clientele provide the back-drop for the coming of age of the youthful and innocent Taddeo, who manages to secure a job as diver to Al, the mysterious and […]
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Theatrical reading in Italian from Primo Levi’s La tregua introduced by a musical performance of Ravel’s Kaddish. On the occasion of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the IIC will present a theatrical reading from Primo Levi’s La tregua by Riccardo Bocci. This Italian theatre actor has worked with Italian and international theatre directors such […]
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Giovedì all’Opera – La scala di seta & Il signor Bruschino
Introduction by Deirdre O’Grady. Film in Italian with English subtitles. This evening’s screening is the charming double bill La scala di seta and Il Signor Bruschino were both composed by the twenty- year old Rossini for the Teatro San Moisè Venice. The first tells of a secret marriage musically communicated through four arias and […]
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Yeats and Leopardi, a confrontation
In English. Cesare Catà will explore some surprising similarities and differences in the works and philosophies of W.B. Yeats and Giacomo Leopardi. For W.B. Yeats love is a mystical elevation. For Leopardi, on the other hand, nature is stronger than love. For Yeats “fantasy” is an intellectual power, whereas, for Leopardi, fantasy is “the […]
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Monday at the Cinema – Scialla!
Directed by Francesco Bruni. With Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Filippo Scicchitano, Barbora Bobulova. Comedy, 95’ In Italian with English subtitles Scialla! (Easy!) tells the story of Bruno, a retired secondary school teacher and ghostwriter, who gives private lessons to make ends meet. His life is turned upside down when he discovers that Luca – one of his […]
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Poetry in translation – Italian poetry in Cyphers
The Italian Institute of Culture in association with the editors of Cyphers invite you to the launch of Cyphers 82 with Special section: a century of Italian poetry. Cyphers, the Irish literary magazine, was founded in 1975 and is edited by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, currently Ireland Professor of Poetry, and Macdara Woods. For more […]
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Reading Dante at the IIC
Reading Dante at the IIC continues in 2017! Reading Dante is an initiative started in the summer of 2015. Renata Sperandio, Director of the Italian Institute of Culture, will accompany you in your journey through Dante’s Divine Comedy, the splendid masterpiece of Italian literature.The readings will start at 6.30pm on Wednesday 18th January with Canto […]
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Finnegans Wake – The Italian launch!
In collaboration with Mondadori The Institute is pleased to present and launch the third volume of the Italian translation of Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. At 6pm, after an introduction by Dott. Luigi Belmonte (Oscar Mondadori) – the two translators and curators, Enrico Terrinoni and Fabio Pedone, will be joined by journalist and presenter Edoardo Camurri (Radio […]
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