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Academia, Essays March 10, 2023

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,…

Interviews January 4, 2023

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…

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Interviews January 26, 2010

From Trieste to New York

  Book Review: From Trieste to New York. Annie Cohen-Solal’s Leo & His Circle Alessandro Cassin Chances are even those outside the contemporary art world are familiar with Leo Castelli’s…

Interviews January 26, 2010

Memory Buried

Memory Buried: In Search of Mussolini’s Camps   Interview by Alessandro Cassin Carlo Spartaco Capogreco is a professor at the Università della Calabria and president of Fondazione Ferramonti, which is…

Interviews January 19, 2010

The Language of Testimony

The Language of Testimony:  a Conversation with Manuela Consonni by Alessandro Cassin Manuela Consonni is head of the Department of Italian Studies and the Romance and Latin American Studies section…

News January 18, 2010

The People of the Book

The People of the Book and Their Books: Ferrara Celebrates Jewish Continuity and Book Publishing in Italy Alessandro Cassin interviews Riccardo Calimani The first edition of the Italian Jewish Book…

Essays January 14, 2010

Jews and the Present of the Past

        Jews and the Present of the Past: A Retrospective Look at the the ‘Symbolic and Ethnic Other’ Manuela Consonni (Hebrew University) introduces Kenneth Stow (University of…

Books January 8, 2010

Giovanni Palatucci

        Giovanni Palatucci Between History and Hagiography Alessandro Cassin interviews Marco Coslovich Of the trends that have characterized the debate on the Shoah in Italy the one…