University of Padua 1222 - 2022 The University of Padua is among the oldest and most prestigious universities in the world, and in 2022 it will celebrate the 800th anniversary of its birth. Philosophers such as Pietro d’Abano or Marisilio from Padova or even the Aristotelian Pietro Pomponazzi tread its floors in the 14th century. Here Galileo Galilei laid the foundations for the
The "Angelo Mai" Civic Library of Bergamo In Bergamo, in a gorgeous Renaissance square, Piazza Vecchia, you can see a large Palladian building. It houses the holdings of the “Angelo Mai” Civic Library, the oldest municipal institution in the city, founded at the end of the eighteenth century by Cardinal Giuseppe Alessandro Furietti. A rich and extremely diversified patrimony, as the library director
The Musical Collections of the "Angelo Mai" Civic Library in Bergamo The thematic itinerary dedicated to Gaetano Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” begins at the Angelo Mai Civic Library where the precious manuscript is preserved. Marcello Eynard, head of the Antique and Music Department, talk about the musical collections of the library in Bergamo and the precious autograph manuscript of the famous opera for
Constancia - Video Lectures on Frederick II The project “Constancia. Women and Power in the Mediterranean Empire of Frederick II” also includes a long series of video lectures (available in the Library of the “Stanze italiane”) curated by Francesco Somaini, coordinator of the new Center for Medieval Studies of the University of Salento, dedicated to Frederick’s age. “This New York exhibition – says
The Bridge Book Award 2021 On Tuesday, December 14, the winners of the 2021 edition of “The Bridge Book Award” will be announced. The award, now in its sixth edition, was conceived and is organized by Maria Ida Gaeta, founder of the Casa delle Letterature and the International “Letterature” Festival in Rome, and it is supported also by the Italian Cultural Institute in
Napoleon and the Cult of Objects Continuing the in-depth study dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte, the ICI presents a video interview with Arianna Arisi Rota, Professor of Contemporary History in the Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pavia. The author, in conversation with Fabio Finotti, presents her new book: Il Cappello dell'Imperatore - The Emperos's Hat (Donzelli 2021), dedicated to the history and fortune of some memorabilia linked
Gaetano Filangieri and Benjamin Franklin An International symposium dedicated to Gaetano Filangieri curated by Vincenzo Pascale (Long Island University) together with scholars and university professors from Italy (Filangieri Museum, Ca 'Foscari, University of Salerno, University of Naples Federico II, Filangieri Association of Cava de' Tirreni) . The various presentations offer new interpretations of the work of Gaetano Filangieri, on the occasion of the
Napoleon's Piano Two hundred years after Napoleon's death, pianist Costantino Mastroprimiano - one of the most famous performers on period instruments - guides us through the laboratory of Ugo Casiglia, Maestro harpsichordist and restorer of keyboard instruments in Cinisi (PA). We will learn the secrets of early keyboards and listen to the timbral nuances of ancient instruments, which are impossible to recreate on
The Sound of the Emperor Guest of the Library of the Italian Rooms is Pianist Costantino Mastroprimiano for the two hundredth anniversary of Napoleon's death. A concert with period music and instruments to discover the taste and sounds typical of the early 19th century. The program includes sublime but little-known pages by Giovanni Paisiello, Ludwig van Beethoven, Philipp Jakob Riotte. Find out more
Napoleon and Manzoni 5 May 1821 - 2021 Video interview by Fabio Finotti with Luca Badini Confalonieri, Professor of Italian Literature at the University of Turin and Manzonian scholar, on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of the writing of the ode "Cinque Maggio" by Alessandro Manzoni. Badini Confalonieri helps us discover themes and connections in Manzoni's ode that have been ingrained
