Art

In Frankfurt
Botticelli
The Städel Museum pays a tribute to the Renaissance icon, commemorating the fifth centennial of his death

In Rome
Boldini e gli italiani a Parigi
Dumbstruck by the modernity of the "Ville Lumière" and by the new artistic trends that were experimented there...

In Rome
Michelangelo Architect in Rome
The precious exhibition that has been inaugurated at the Capitoline Museums...

In Rome
Giorgione
Amongst all the most important artists during the Renaissance, Giorgione is the most difficult...

Cinema

La prima cosa bella
by Paolo Virzì
"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way". This marvellous opening sentence...

Io, loro e Lara
by Carlo Verdone
Father Carlo Mascolo, a long-time missionary working in the neediest areas in Africa...

Literature

Harvard Diary
Il Centodelitti
by Giorgio Scerbanenco
Scerbanenco wrote extensively, at least seventy novels and more than one-thousand short stories...

Music

Italian Singer Songwriters -
Franco Califano
A suburban poet, the Califfo has composed over one-thousand songs for himself and for performers of the calibre of Mina, Paoli

Italian language course Dentro l'italiano

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Moments of Italian Cinema

Trends, genre, works, authors of italian cinema...

Marcello Mastroianni

Andrea Palladio
Son of Pietro della Gondola, miller, and Marta knows as "la zota", Andrea was born in Padua in 1508...

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