Italian Cultural Institute of Chicago. Thursday, October 22, 2015 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (CDT)Chicago, IL. "Dante and the Limits of the Law", a book presentation by Professor Justin Steinberg, University of Chicago with the participation of Emanuele Coccia, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris"Dante and the L...

Dante Alighieri was a writer, a poet, a political figure and an innovative artist. During his time, he was famous, yet his true and wide fame came after his death. If you google his name, it is surprising how much you find and of what nature.   Dante and the Divine Comedy has inspired the most different and sometime weird kind of things over...

It's back to school season and the time for self improvement is ripe. If you've always wanted to try your tongue at the bella lingua now is the time. "Strike while the iron is hot!" as the Americans say. And the good news for you, dear lingual blacksmith, is that the Bay Area has a plethora of options for you to develop and hone your Italian skills...

  WTI Magazine #49    2014 December, 10Author : Giuseppina Salzano e Giovanni Verde      Translation by:   Dante Alighieri is not only a Great Italian of the past. His name exceeds the boundaries of his and our country and the era in which he lived, to get into a universal dimension of time and space, symbol of the whole Western culture and ligh...

The Dante Alighieri Society of Michigan under the auspices of the Italian Consulate of Detroit in its third Annual Celebration of Dante Alighieri presentsDANTE E LA MUSICA: LA SUA INFLUENZA POETICADANTE AND MUSIC: HIS POETIC INFLUENCE A talk by John Zaretti, President of the Verdi Opera Theatre of Michigan.   Read more   Fonte: Il gi...

Albert Russell Ascoli, Terrill Dis-tinguished Professor, teaches in the Department of Italian Studies, UC Berkeley. His principal field of research and teaching is Medieval and Early Modern Italian culture from the 13th to the 16th centuries.   He is the author of Dante and the Making of a Modern Author (Cambridge University Press, 2008).&nb...

According to its creators, the "Infernal Marathon" "offers a modern interpretation of Dante's 'Inferno', representing the verses of this most eminent of Italian poets with images of Italy's historical, artistic and naturalistic heritage.   The project's goal is to contribute to the popularization of 'The Divine Comedy' while also promoting t...

Presented with the NYU Department of Italian Studies, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò and the Medieval and Renaissance Center.In collaboration with Columbia University's Italian Academy for Advanced Studies and Department of Italian.   Dante as a Political Theorist: Historicizing Theology and Theologizing Power – An International Symposium on "...

LOCATION: Dante Alighieri Society, Italian Cultural Center, 41 Hampshire Street, Cambridge, MA 02139DATE: Friday, May 6, 2016 SCHEDULE: 6:00 PM – Dante Birthday Celebration, 6:30 PM – Light Refreshments, 7:00 PM – Showing of the Movie "Palio," known as "Rocky on Horseback"PARKING: In the Dante Alighieri Society Building lot, wi...

Il dato è impressionante ma la molteplicità degli eventi offre un panorama assai variegato della cultura italiana nel mondo sotto i più diversi aspetti in occasione dell'"Anno" negli Stati Uniti. E naturalmente non poteva mancare anche nel Michigan un omaggio al sommo Dante ed alla sua Divina Commedia. Un'opera vista attraverso un prisma che la res...