Saturday April 26 2025 at 12:30 PM - Columbus Citizens Foundation - 8 E 69th Street, Manhattan NY. RSVP here. When we consider American history, we don’t typically think of Italy. Yet the ideals that shaped America—liberty, justice, and the pursuit of happiness—echoed in Enlightenment Italy, notably in the writings of Gaetano Filangieri, a Neapolitan philosopher whose work bore significant affinities with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.

Join Professor Amedeo Arena and Judge Matthew Grieco on April 26th for a lunchtime discussion on the ties between America and Italy during the age of revolution. The conversation will also highlight Professor Arena’s recent volume, Cittadino di tutti i luoghi, contemporaneo di tutte l’età: l’universalità del pensiero di Gaetano Filangieri, available here.