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If ever there was a poetic allure tempting the culturally enlightened to explore a destination, it is Emilia-Romagna’s Ravenna, a city that’s both undeserved of its regional underdog status but all the better for it as well. Ravenna richly rewards those who make it to this northern coastal Eden of early Christian art, a haven of historical conseque...

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The Pietra di Bismantova is not just any mountain. The massive rock’s flat shape is so particular, as it rises, majestic, solitary, from the surrounding plains in Emilia-Romagna, that Dante Alighieri is said to have been inspired by it for the description of the Purgatory in his Divine Comedy.  It is said that ‘the supreme poet’ visited the area in...

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November 4 (Wednesday) 5:30 pm. Sponsored by: John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College/CUNY - 25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor. Contact: 212-966-3245 / [email protected] The Dante in Italiano Midtown group has been reading and talking about the Commedia since January 2018. Our slow and steady descent into the Inferno mo...

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Dante's Hell and Inferno Dantesco Animato, both films produced and directed by Boris Acosta, will premiere in Italy. Dante's Hell at MIA, the Rome film festival market on October 17, 2020 and later on both films will have their world festival premiere at the Ravenna Nightmare Film Festival on October 31, Halloween Day and will continue on to Novemb...

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Thursday, September 24th 2020. 6:00 PM EDT. PI-Philly in partnership with the Consulate General of Italy in Philadelphia, is excited to present the next online event. We invite you to join us for the talk "Dante without Footnotes - Personal Reflections on the Divine Comedy". THIS EVENT IS FREE BUT REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. Register Now In this pres...

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Sunday May 24 2020 - 11 AM EDT. What was Dante Alighieri doing on his 55th birthday at the end of May, 1320? We don't know very much, but we do know that he was writing the Paradiso in Ravenna where he had recently arrived from Verona. From January, 1302 he had been in exile from his beloved Florence and was still under sentence of death. This conv...

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The Order Sons and Daughters of Italy in America is the oldest and most established organization supporting Americans of Italian descent in the United States and Canada. Founded in 1905 in New York by an Italian emigrant, Dr. Vincenzo Sellaro, OSDIA today has over 600,000 affiliates throughout North America. In 2019, 115 years after its foundation,...

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Il 25 Marzo, data che gli studiosi individuano come inizio del viaggio ultraterreno della Divina Commedia, si celebrerà per la prima volta il Dantedì, la giornata dedicata a Dante Alighieri recentemente istituita dal Governo. Il sommo Poeta è il simbolo della cultura e della lingua italiana, ricordarlo insieme sarà un modo per unire ancora di più i...

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Founded in Rome in 1889 by the famous poet Giosue Carducci, the Dante Alighieri Society has promoted and encouraged Italian language, literature, and all aspects of Italian culture including, art, music, film, history, and design for the past 130 years.  The society was named for Italy’s greatest writer, Dante Alighieri, author of The Divine Comedy...

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Thursday, 03/12/2020 - 6:30pm. Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò - 24 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011-8604. A lecture by Dennis Looney. In this presentation Dr. Looney examines how the reception of Dante Alighieri--his biography and the Divine Comedy--contributes to the productive literary entanglement of several key figures of American literary li...

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