The Last Muslims in Italy
During Dante’s lifetime, the only Muslim city on the Italian peninsula ceased to exist. Dante does not mention Lucera Saracenorum (a Latin placename meaning “Lucera of the Saracens”) in his writings,…
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Always Remember Your Name
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A Double Bow for Primo Levi
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Luciano Chessa’s Piombo
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Reminiscing on Giorgio Bassani with Alain Elkann
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Fragments from Elsa Morante’s La storia
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The Jesuit
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The Online Thesaurus of Italian Jewish Music
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Bashing Micól
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The Racial Laws
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The Novel of Ferrara
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A Double Bow for Primo Levi
The legendary cellist /composer France -Marie Uitti will premiere Luciano Chessa’s Piombo based on a text by Primo Levi at Magazzino Italian Art on January 21. The two-bow technique she…
Advertising the Self: Formiggini’s Talking Postcards
In an era in which advertising was not yet an industry but rather an incipient trade entrusted more to imagination than anything else, the Italian publisher Angelo Fortunato Formiggini invented…
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Letter to a Friend in Gaza
Letter to a Friend in Gaza: From Film to Theater Amos Gitai’s stage version of Letter to a Friend In Gaza, which had its World Premiere at Spoleto Festival…
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…
Current scholarship on Italian Fascist anti-Semitism in honour of Michele Sarfatti
Journal of Modern Italian Studies: On the 80th anniversary of the Racial Laws. Articles reflecting the current scholarship on Italian Fascist anti-Semitism in honour of Michele Sarfatti. Annalisa Capristo and…
Corrado Cagli’s Drawings in the Collection of the New York Public Library
In 1948, the New York City Ballet presented The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne, a Renaissance poem by Lorenzo de’ Medici whose refrain “del doman non v’è certezza” (the future…
Stella Levi at the Scuola d’Italia
The long collaboration between Centro Primo Levi and La Scuola D’Italia continues this year with an exhibit on The Racial Laws and the Persecution of the Jews (curated by CDEC)…
Diario Ottuso
“Lyric prose is a way to enter the market: a parcel of prose is a lost continent” Amelia Rosselli The growing interest in Amelia Rosselli (1930-1996), one of Italy’s…