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Books, News May 17, 2019

Primo Levi at 100

Primo Levi’s 100th anniversary will be celebrated around the world through lectures, book presentations, staged readings, and academic seminars. Drawing on its ongoing effort to offer a platform to new…

Academia, Books, Interviews September 26, 2018

The Year of History, A Novel

When Elsa Morante published La Storia. Romanzo in 1974 it was a watershed event that invested Italian society both in terms of the unprecedented success among readers and the ideologically…

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Books, Essays, News February 9, 2017

Yesterday and Today

The way our societies confront the plight of the millions of refugees from various areas of the world escaping famine, ethnic, religious and political persecution, hopelessness and war, will be…

Essays January 23, 2017

Paper Lives

“My humble request to Your Excellency”. Brief accounts of  life and death in Italy. Based on archival documentation on “foreign Jews” interned by the Fascist Regime. In 1938 the Racial…

Academia January 19, 2017

Gino Bartali, Bibliographical Sources

Archival and bibliographical references for Michele Sarfatti’s article on Gino Bartali and the fabrication of false identity cards in Tuscany during World War II (Tablet Magazine). The original article in…

Academia January 9, 2017

Under Glass: Museums and the Display of History.

This year, together with its academic partners, Centro Primo Levi invites scholars and the public to discuss the idea of displaying history in museums and the alternate waves of museum projects (realized and not) focusing on…

Academia, Essays January 9, 2017

Arnaldo Momigliano

On July 22, 1955, the Times Literary Supplement welcomed the appearance of a new scholarly book with an enthusiasm rarely matched in its gray, closely printed pages. Pride of place,…