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08/21/2024

Buon inizio di semestre, UA! 📚🇮🇹🐘

04/13/2023

Come to this great Italian event tomorrow at 5:00!!

09/16/2020

The Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Washington is offering a free streamed screening of this new film! A limited number of spots are available, so register now if you're interested!

𝗗𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿: Giuseppe Bonito
Italy, 2019, 97 min
In Italian with English subtitles
(Stream between September 16 and September 19th)
➡️ Registration and more information available at: https://bit.ly/3mrs9zl

Trailer with English Subtitles

08/16/2020

Who says that the Middle Ages aren't still relevant today?
"In Florence, creative restaurant and bar owners have now taken inspiration from a medieval architectural quirk to keep their businesses and the spirit of the city alive."

Wine windows, or buchette del vino, are totally unique to Tuscany, and haven't been seen anywhere else in the world.

08/13/2020

This year marks the 600th anniversary of the start of Brunelleschi's dome in Florence. This is the only remaining architectural design for it, made (as the archive explains below) in 1425 by someone trying to show that it couldn't possibly stand.

Si celebrano quest'anno i 600 anni dall'inizio della costruzione della di Santa Maria del Fiore, i cui lavori ebbero inizio, su progetto di Filippo , il 7 agosto 1420. Il nostro Archivio conserva l'unico disegno coevo relativo a quella straordinaria impresa (ASFi, ex mostra 158): l'autore è Giovanni di Gherardo Gherardi da Prato, ma le intenzioni che lo mossero sono tutt'altro che celebrative! Chiamato nel 1425 a esprimere un parere sui lavori fin lì eseguiti, ormai giunti a un terzo della struttura, Gherardi (in quegli anni in contrasto con Brunelleschi) ne criticò di fatto l'impostazione architettonica, mostrando con disegni e annotazioni (visibili nella pergamena in foto) i problemi da lui riscontrati in materia di illuminazione, di costruzione geometrica e di curvatura della cupola.
Opera del Duomo di Firenze
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Per approfondire: http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-gherardi_%28Dizionario-Biografico%29/

07/30/2020

Guardiamo?

Disney is producing a movie, "Luca" set in Italy! Directed by Enrico Casarosa, the film takes place in a beautiful seaside town on the Italian Riviera to meet a boy named Luca as he experiences an unforgettable summer with new friends. The film is set to open in theaters Summer 2021.

05/29/2020

Coming in June - new musical compositions to be streamed online over the course of ten days, à la Boccaccio's Decameron, in which a group of friends heads to the Florentine hills to tell ten days of stories and escape the plague of 1348.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we draw on Boccaccio’s example to offer some musical responses. We have asked 10 pairs of composers and performers to write and perform brief solo works to be premiered online over the course of 10 days in June. The composers and performers are working remote...

03/25/2020

Today, March 25th, we celebrate Dantedì with a conversation between Professor Alison Cornish, Chair of our Department of Italian Studies, a renowned Dante scholar and the President of the Dante Society of America and Stefano Albertini the Director of Casa Italiana. The conversation will focus on Dante’s presence in contemporary culture, his remarkable success among US college students, what he can teach us in this time of crisis, and much more. The conversation will be broadcast live here today Wednesday, at 5 p.m. EST and will last about 20/30 minutes. You’ll be able to join in the conversation with comments and questions.

03/24/2020

Sheltered in place? Celebrate the first annual "Dantedì" tomorrow by (re)reading the Inferno, which seems as timely as ever...