INFINITO: A Translation Marathon
- Literature
Celebrating Leopardi’s poem with Jonathan Galassi, Luigi Ballerini, and NYU students
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Topic: Italian Society
- Cinema & Television
Political Theater in Italian American Theater
Laura Caparrotti, Artistic Director, KIT – Kairos Italy Theater in conversation with Frank J. Avella, playwright Marcella Bencivenni, CUNY Excerpts read by Giacomo Rocchini and Mario Merone, KIT
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Bizza”
Today’s word is BIZZA, Italian for a tantrum.
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- Art
Reimagining the Archives & Centering Black Histories
Part of the series Virtual Salons: Discourses on Black Italia
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Formicolìo”
Today’s word is FORMICOLIO, Italian for a “swarm” or a “tingling sensation.”
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- History & Politics
Domesticating the Tenth Muse: Myths of Female Voice and Enlightened Progress in 1790s Italy
A talk by Jessica Gabriel Peritz (Yale University) Respondent: Shane Butler (Johns Hopkins University) Co-sponsored by Medieval and Renaissance Center at NYU Moderated by Eugenio Refini (NYU)
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Ottimo”
Today’s word is OTTIMO, Italian for “great,” or “optimal.”
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- History & Politics
La Marchesa Colombi and the Free Women of Late 19th-Century Italy
Antonia Arslan, writer in conversation with Maria Teresa Cometto (Author of La Marchesa Colombi: Vita, romanzi e passioni della prima giornalista del Corriere della Sera)
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- Parole Parole
Parole Parole: “Tamarro”
Today’s word is TAMARRO, Italian for something or someone with very bad taste or vulgar.
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- History & Politics
Political Theater in Italian Theater
Laura Caparrotti (KIT- Kairos Italy Theater) interviews Davide Enia, Marco Martinelli, Marco Paolini, and Giorgina Pi.
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- History & Politics
L’Italia s’è desta nella violenza: dall’Unità ad oggi, il sangue scorso tra gli italiani
La voce di New York
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- History & Politics
Violence in Italian History
David Forgacs, NYU Author of Messaggi di sangue: La violenza nella storia d’Italia
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- Art
Early Modern Voice and the Representation of Racial Difference
Part of the series VivaVoce Early Modern Voice and the Representation of Racial Difference Scenes of Performance at the Medici Court in the Primo Seicento
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