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Italian Records Night @ The Big Romance

The Istituto Italiano Di Cultura - Dublino, in collaboration with Nowhere Music, is delighted to present the first “Italian...

Just Before Suburbia. Literature and Big Cities in Italy during the 1950s - with Giancarlo Alfano

According to historiography, the economic boom in Italy started officially in 1956: 11 years after the end of World War II,...

Holocaust Remembrance Day // Remembering the Jews of Italy

The story of the Jews of Italy is characterised by successful cultural innovation and an exciting intellectual tradition....

Shaping Italian society - with Niamh Cullen, John Foot and Patrick McGauley

This event marks the publication of two new books exploring Italy’s recent history from different angles. Patrick McGauley’s...

Lunedì al Cinema // L'uomo che non cambiò la storia

The “man who didn’t change history” was a university professor: Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli, esteemed Italian...

Lunedì al Cinema // Puccini e la fanciulla

In 1909, while famous opera composer Giacomo Puccini is totally engrossed with the writing of La fanciulla del West, a complex...

Il Cinema dei Piccoli // La freccia azzurra

Every year at Christmas time the good witch Befana flies on her broom delivering toys to all the well-behaved children of...

Il Cinema dei Piccoli // Pinocchio

Geppetto the carpenter carves the object of his hidden desires out of a log: a puppet that will keep him company and will...

Do Re Quack Gulp: How Cathy Berberian turned comic strips into music scores

In 1966 Cathy Berberian — called ‘Callas of the avant-garde’ by numerous contemporary composers —...