Presidio Letterario

Bookreading “Il dono di Natale” by Grazia Deledda, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.It’s a touching and meaningful Christmas story—perfect for practicing Italian while enjoying the festive spirit! Saturday – 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM– with Daniela – Online October 25, 2025 What to expect?

Il posto degli uomini: Dante in Purgatorio dove andremo tuttiA book presentation with the author Aldo Cazzullo from Italy. For Dante’s 700th anniversary of his death, Mondadori released the sequel to “A riveder le Stelle” by Aldo Cazzullo, to pay homage to the “Poet who invented Italy,” continuing on the journey of the Divine Comedy […]

Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human
Author Elena Past talked about how filmmaking practice—from sound recording to location scouting to managing a production—helps uncover cinema’s ecological footprint and can offer new perspectives on the nonhuman world

Join us for this special Caffè & Cultura by Professor Joseph Francese.Professor Francese will discuss with us the book Open Doors by Leonardo Sciascia  “Open Doors” (the screen adaptation was nominated for an Academy Award as best foreign film in 1990) looks behind the duel between a prosecutor and a Sicilian judge in Palermo who […]

The Prince is a 16th century political treatiese, by the Italian diplomat and political theorist, Niccolò Machiavelli. A printed version was first published in 1532, five years after Machiavelli’s death. This was done with the permission of the Medici pope, Clement VII. Machiavelli’s inspiration for The Prince was his experience in the courts of Europe […]

Italian Book Club | Le idi di marzoWe welcome the Dante Alighieri members and non-members to join us in this exciting adventure in Italian literature. We are meeting every three months to discuss a book by an Italian Author. The discussion will be in English unless all the participants speak Italian. Feel free to read the […]

A novel that will touch your heart, Guido Mattioni’s Whispering Tides has the power, within its well-crafted narrative, to make the reader a protagonist, not merely a spectator, by triggering sensations that may have seemed forgotten but are like fire under the ashes, waiting for a chance to take over. The yearning for a “natural […]

Translated by Patrick CreaghInvoluntary 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 interesting in their own right due to the complexity of the Italian […]

Dante Alighieri Society Book Club Friday, July 17, 2015 7 Agostino By Alberto Moravia Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan seaside resort with his beautiful, widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling ignored and unloved, she begins hanging around with a group of local young toughs. […]

 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 […]