Dante's Visual Imagination | April 19 at 4:30 pm
L’iconografia medioevale che ha influenzato l’immaginario dantesco. Please join us Sunday, April 19, 2015 at 4:30 pm for and afternoon of coffee and culture with Sabrina Cavallari Biancardi. What images have fed Dante’s imagination? His “Comedy” is inspired by theology and history, but at the same time art surrounds him and helps Dante transform his […]
“The Italian Woman and the Making of America” | Sunday, March 8 at 4:30pm
Please join us Sunday, March 8 at 4:30pm for and afternoon of coffee and culture with Prof. Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan. March 8th is the International Women’s Day. The earliest Women’s Day observance was held on February 28, 1909, in New York; it was organized in remembrance of the 1908 strike of the International Ladies’ Garment […]
The Fall of the Roman Empire | From Darkness to Light | Sunday, January 18 at 4:30pm
“If we want to understand our present we need to discover our history”. That is why we believe that the Fall of the Roman Empire signs the beginning of a new Era. We will learn the reasons for this “Fall”, and the consequences that had brought darkness to many fields, but strength to others; […]
Italian Book Club | November 20, 2015
Dante Alighieri Society Book Club INVOLUNTARY WITNESS by GIANRICO CAROFIGLIO Translated by Patrick Creagh Involuntary Witness is the first book in a series featuring Italian trial lawyer Guido Guerrieri, who lives in Bari, Italy. The author, Gianrico Carofiglio, is a former Italian judge, so the legal aspects of his novels are very accurate, and are interesting […]
Book Club | I Will Have Vengeance—Il senso del dolore By Maurizio de Giovanni | April 17, 2015
I Will Have Vengeance—Il senso del dolore By Maurizio de Giovanni Set in Naples in 1931, the novel takes place during the early rule of Il Duce, Benito Mussolini, at a time in which the gap between the wealthy and poor is enormous. Angelo Garzo, the Vice Questore in charge of Ricciardi’s department, “whose life […]
Matrimonio all’italiana | Friday, December 5, 2014 at 7:15pm
Domenico Soriano (Marcello Mastroianni) is about to marry, but when he learns that his mistress Filumena Marturano (Sofia Loren) is ill, he stays by her side, learning later that it was a ploy by her to get him to marry her instead. Cast: Sofia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Tecla Scarano, Marilù Tolo, Gianni Ridolfi […]
Mamma Roma | Friday, September 5, 2014 at 7pm
Anna Magnani stars as Mamma Roma, a rural Italian hooker trying to create a new life for herself. This proves impossible when the past keeps rearing its ugly head in the form of Mamma Rosa’s previous “johns.” She returns to her old profession, whereupon her son Ettore Garofalo becomes a thief and is killed by […]
Great Italian Short Stories of the Twentieth Century | Friday, January 16 at 7pm
Italian Book Club – Friday, January 16, 2015 at 7 pm 630 N Old Woodward – Suite 102 Birmingham, MI 48009 Great Italian Short Stories of the Twentieth Century/I grandi racconti italiani del Novecento: A Dual-Language Book (English and Italian). Edited and translated by Jacob Blakesley. This anthology highlights the rich range of modern Italian […]