Cherpack Lounge This panel will discuss a recent special volume on national discord in the United States published by Limes, Rivista Italiana di Geopolitica, the leading journal of geopolitics in Italy. We will focus especially on recent “culture wars” within the American university. The panel will feature two editors from Limes, Federico Petroni and Fabrizo […]
Event Category: Italian
Zoom, with in-person audience gathering in Cherpack Lounge Professor Grogory Conti will present his new translation of Leonardo Sciascia’s collection of short stories “The Fire in the Sea” and discuss translation strategies with the students with hands on activities. This online lecture is offered in conjunction with Professor Arianna Fognani’s course on Italian Translation (ITAL […]
In conjunction with that evening’s Music in the Pavilion concert, Petrarch in Renaissance Music, this symposium will cover the recently-acquired manuscript of Francesco Petrarca’s Rerum vulgarium fragmenta and Triumphi. This symposium is co-sponsored by Penn Libraries, the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Penn Music, and the Center for Italian Studies. September […]
Lea Library (Van Pelt Library, 6th Floor) The workshop will be directed by Professor Wayne Storey (Indiana University, emeritus) and is intended for Penn graduate students. This event is offered in conjunction with the “Petrarca / is again / in sight” symposium and concert and is cosponsored by the Center for Italian Studies.
Class of 1955 (2nd floor, Van Pelt Library) Acclaimed translator of Elena Ferrante’s novels and former editor of the New Yorker, Ann Goldstein is joining the University of Pennsylvania to discuss the new translation of Alba de Céspedes’ Forbidden Notebook, originally published in Italian in 1952. A New York Times Notable Book of 2023, New […]