Book Presentation: La Masseria by Daniela D’Amico Henderson
Held at the Metropolitan Museum of Design Detroit, the event was free and open to guests, offering a chance to connect more deeply with Italian heritage, language, and identity. The evening featured a presentation and book signing by Daniela D’Amico Henderson of La Masseria. The novel was introduced in Italian and English to ensure accessibility […]
Aldo Cazzullo
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
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
Valerio Massimo Manfredi: The Ides of March
We are pleased to announce the next meeting of our Italian Book Club. We 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 […]
Involuntary Witness by Gianfranco 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 in their own right due to the complexity of […]
Book Club – Agostino by Alberto Moravia| July 17, 2015
Dante Alighieri Society Book Club Friday, July 17, 2015 7 pm 630 N Old Woodward – Time: 7-9 pm Suite 102 Birmingham, MI 48009 Agostino By Alberto Moravia Thirteen-year-old Agostino is spending the summer at a Tuscan sea-side resort with his beautiful widowed mother. When she takes up with a cocksure new companion, Agostino, feeling […]
Il senso del dolore By Maurizio de Giovanni
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 […]
