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Dear friends, since the beginning of the year, we have been working on a new version of our website, which will be online by the end of May. Our new We the Italians will be more innovative, faster, and more rational. There will be several new features, but the biggest change concerns the areas into which we have divided the United States from the v...

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Friday, May 2nd at 6:30 PM Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral 261 Mott Street – New York. Opening Remarks by Father Luigi Portarulo. Theatrical reading in Italian from the Divine Comedy performed by Massimiliano Finazzer Flory. Musical accompaniment on cello by Julia Kent New York Honors Dante: An Evening of Poetry, Theater, and Music at St. P...

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“I always say I was born here, but my heart was truly born in Italy.” Those are the words of Anna Izzo, who studied in Italy, traveled the country extensively, and now teaches Italian at Elk Grove High School in suburban Chicago. Izzo, who calls herself “a student at heart,” holds several degrees. She has undergraduate degrees in Italian, Spanish a...

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Tuesday, March 25, 2025 5:30pm. Burns Library - 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467. In collaboration with the Romance Language and Literatures department, Burns Library will host programming and book display for the celebration of "Dante Day" ('Dantedì'), an annual commemoration of Italy's most celebrated poet and writer, Dante Alighier...

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Elena Buttiero and Anita Frumento, Italian musicians from Liguria, return to the United States to present "La Divina Commedia" for piano four hands of the Genoese composer Cesare San Fiorenzo (1875). The recital will take place on Thursday, March 20, 2025 in the Recital Hall of the School of Music at Arizona State University in Tempe, just outside...

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tudies of the reception and “afterlife” of classic works are becoming something of a trend. Last year, Orlando Reade’s What in Me Is Dark received well-earned praise for its tracking of the surprising career of Milton’s Paradise Lost in the centuries following its composition – not least its role in shaping a revolutionary political imagination. Da...

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Inside the cathedral in Florence, just before the presbytery, on the left aisle wall, there is a painting of Dante (1265-1321). It is a wonderful visual biography of this much-loved national icon. It was placed here in 1465, on the bicentenary of the great poet’s birth. The Florentine painter Domenico di Michelino was commissioned for the work by t...

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Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy is one of the most significant works in Western literature, captivating readers for over 700 years. Its profound themes, intricate structure, and timeless exploration of the human condition have made it a cornerstone of literary and philosophical study. Translating such a masterpiece into English, or any language, is...

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Imagine a Hillsdale that taught the “Aeneid” without training students in Latin, or read the “Iliad” but didn’t encourage the study of Greek, or assigned short stories from Jorge Louis Borges but never led students to delve deeper into the study of Spanish.  Now remember that Hillsdale students will often study the works of Dante, Petrarch, and Mac...

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Rock and pop violinist Andrea Di Cesare has played on 20 platinum and gold records in his native Italy and is also a solo artist known for his innovative style, akin to a one-man band. He will be back to Binghamton University and the surrounding community to play his latest composition: a three-part piece based on Dante’s Divine Comedy and inspired...

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